Subtropical Rainforest
DEVON HIGGINS
CHRISTIAN SIMMONS
Location of a tropical rainforest
The Amazon, The Phillipienes, Central West Coast
Africa, and Middle America
Climate Graph
The temperature of a Tropical rainforest is usually
mildly warm year round and the raining seasons are
from September too May.
Major characteristics of the biome:
Soil
The soil of a tropical rainforest is very moist yet very
unfertile from the years of weathering and rain.
The soil also contains less organic matter since dead
organisms decay faster with the warm humid
conditions and recycling of nutrients back into the
forest.
Major Characteristics of the biome:
Temperature and Precipitation
The temperature of a tropical rainforest ranges in
slightly high numbers (about 70-85) throughout the
year.
Tropical rainforests receive about 6-33 feet of rainfall
a year.
The 3 months when it does not rain during a year are
June, July, and August.
Major plant life
These forests have plant life ranging in the
thousands. There are vines, trees, flowers, fungi and
multiple more!
Some of the plants found in one of these forests can
even hold a medicinal purpose and save millions of
lives.
Examples of Animals
In a tropical rainforest, there are thousands of types
of animals. The animals live in 4 basic places in a
rainforest. The Emergents or the tops of giant trees,
the Canopy or the upper parts of the trees, the
Understory or the dark and cool area under the
leaves but not on the ground, and the Forest floor.
The animals that live here can vary from piranhas
(fish), iguanas (reptiles), orangutans (mammals)
ants (insects) and even toucans (birds).
Work Cited
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainfo
rest/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml
http://www.mobot.org/hort/gardens/CLtropfor.sht
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