Tropical RainforestsTropical Rainforests

Steiner Ráhel & Nagy Dóra11.c

Tropical rainforest:Tropical rainforest:• Hot and wet throughout the year• warm, wet forests with many tall

trees • Min. annual rainfall between

175 cm and 200 cm 

• poor soils due to the heavy raining• The temperature ranges from 21°C

to 45°C• High relative humidity• Equatorial climate

LocationLocation• South and Central America • Africa • Asia • Australia

Amazon Basin

Congo Basin

South-east Asia

EMERGENTS: Giant trees that are much higher than the average canopy height. It houses many birds and insects.

CANOPY: The upper parts of the trees. This leafy environment is full of life in a tropical rainforest and includes: insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, and more.

UNDERSTORY: A dark, cool environment under the leaves but over the ground.

FOREST FLOOR: Teeming with animal life, especially insects. The largest animals in the rainforest generally live here.

Plants in the rainforestPlants in the rainforest

• 2/3 of the world’s plants • 10km2 area contains 1,500 kinds

of flowering plants and 750 tree species

TOUCAN JAGUAR SPIDER MONKEY

RED-EYEDTREE FROG GORILLA

PIRANHA PARROT BENGALTIGER

GIBBON VIPER

Facts about rainforestsFacts about rainforests

• we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. 

• One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.

• More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. 

• An area of a rainforest the size of An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed a football field is being destroyed each second. each second.

• More than 2,000 tropical forest More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer scientists as having anti-cancer properties. properties.

• The trees of a tropical rainforest The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the long as 10 minutes to reach the ground. ground.

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