By: Will Brooks and Daniel Schlenker
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In an average year in a tropical rain forest, the
climate is very humid because of all the
rainfall, which amounts to about 250 cm per
year. The rain forest has lots of rain because it
is very hot and wet. This climate is found near
the equator. Plants that thrive here must find a
way to get sunlight because most of the sun’s
energy is absorbed by the canopy. Tropical
rainforests are home to more animals and
plants then any biome on the planet. Most of
the animals it is home to have not been
discovered yet.
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Spineless Indian Bamboo, Calcutta Cane
Bambusa tulda
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Coconut tree
Cocos nucifera
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Mangrove Forests
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Fig Tree
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Pitcher Plant
Nepenthes macfarlanei
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Giant Granadilla
Passiflora quadrangularis
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Sumatran Orangutan
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Bird eating spider
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Rhinoceros hornbill
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Amazon River Dolphin
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Count Raggi
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Mountain Gorilla
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Green poison frog
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Piranha
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arapaimas
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Ants
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One adaption that is unique to the rainforest is
that the pitcher plant can hold water to trap
insects in when they go into the plants pitcher
to drink. The insects can’t get back out once
they fall in.
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http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/anima
ls/fish/arapaima.html
Google imageshttp://images.google.com/images?
Biomes of the World Tropical Forests- Allaby,
Michael, Published 1999 by Grolier Education
in Danbury, CT 06816