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The temperature in the rainforest is usually always hot and damp. The average temperature is 25
degrees. Rainforests are not found for the temperature to dip
bellow 0 degrees!
In 2005, Amazon suffered its worst drought in over 100
years raising serious environmental issues.
The rainforest has heaps of rain as it contains the word rain in the word rainforest
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The rainfall can get up to 1.6m or it can get as much as 9.1 of rain a year! There
is no dry season in the rainforest. If there is a dry day it won’t last very long!
Each month 100 mm of rain usually never
escapes the rainforest environment!
The Amazon jungle is the largest tropical rainforest in
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1.Congo (Democratic Republic)2.Africa3.South America4.Brazil 5.Columbia6.Peru7.Idonesia8.Queensland9.Guyana10.Suriname
11.Venezuela12.Costa Rica13.Madagascar14.Ghana15.Nigeria16.Phillipines17.Sri Lanka18.India19.Iory Coast (Canada)
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The rainforests of Asia stretch from Thailand and Burma in the north to Malaysia s tropical rainforests
and the islands of Java and Borneo in the west. Bangladesh has the largest area of wet, tropical forests
in the world.
Central Africa is the world's second largest rainforest! To the south east, the large island of
Madagascar did have a rainforest once upon a time but now it has not many trees left so it is destroyed
The Amazon jungle is the largest tropical rainforest in the world
The largest temperate rainforests are found on the Pacific coast of North America. They stretch from
Oregon to Alaska for 1,800 miles.
There are little Rainforests such as small areas in the United Kingdom, Norway, Japan, New Zealand,
and southern Australia.
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1.Cacao2.Brazil nut tree3.Rubber tree4.Banana tree5.Bougainvillea6.Curare7.Coconut tree8.Durian9.Jambu10.Kapok Tree11.Tualang12.Mangrolve13.Strangler figs14.Bromeliad15.Orchid16.Poinsettia17.Cork Oak18.Sapodilla19.Teak20.Heliconia21.Ramon tree22.Ipe
These are some of the Wonderful plants of the Rainforest
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Bougainvillea's are almost impossible to kill once they are fully grown.
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At an early stage in a pot or ground they have very sensitive roots and you have to be extremely carful when taking them out
of the pot and planting them. If the plant receives too much water, the bud in the middle of
the flower will drop off and in its place a thorn will grow.
Bougainvillea's are tropical climbing plants /trees known for their gentleness and vibrant colours. They are one of the most
popular tropical vine plants grown today!The bougainvillea is a vining plant that grows up to28- 30 feet tall. The plant can be pruned to be grown as a tree or
bushThere are many different types of bougainvillea’s colours
such as white, cream, pink, purple and orange
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The Jambu fruit has a shiny, thin skin which varies from white to bright pink.
About 1 inch long and 1-1.5 inches wide, they are shaped somewhat like a pear with a narrow neck
The red Jambus are the smallest fruit, sweet and juicy, with the white ones being very acidic and sour
Southeast Asian rainforest animals, like monkeys, gibbons and jambu fruit doves, rely on jambu as part of their diet.
Growing wild, the jambu is also cultivated throughout Southeast Asia and is not endangered.
The flesh is white or pink, slightly fragrant, crisp and juicy with a faint sweet flavour.
The fruit has about 1-3 seeds which, together with the roots, are considered poisonous.
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1. Tree Snail2.Morpho Butterfly3.Piranha4.Ocelot5.Spider Monkey6.Sloth7.Bengal Tiger8.Quetzal9.Toucan10.Rhinoceros Beetle11.Green tree snake12.Serval13.Poison Dart Frog14.Boa Constrictor15.Cassowary16.Tarsier17.Maccaw18.Poison Arrow frog19.Siamang20.Gibbon
These are some of the remarkable animals of the Rainforest
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Toucans eat a lot of fruit and they also
eat bird eggs, dead insects, and any type
of tree frogs. The toucan eats by
chopping the fruit off the tree with its
sharp beak, throwing it up high in the air,
and gulping it down.
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THEY ARE ENDANGERED
DESCRIPTIONThere are about 40 different kinds
of toucans. They change in size from 15 cm to a bit over 65 cm, But the males and females are the same
colours. The feathers on the largest toucans are often black with
splashes of white, yellow, and red Toucans are known for their large,
bright, yet light weighing beaks. The colour of the beak is usually black,
blue, orange, red, green and yellow. A toucan's beak is sharp and has
knife like edges. The beak is used to squash the many kinds of fruit and
berries he eats. He may also use the knife like edges to tear off parts of
bigger fruits.
The feathers, or th
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the toucan is usually so
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made into a product. Humans h
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them. The Toucan is very sp
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rainforest because they help to destro
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Poison arrow frogs are known for their amazing bright colours. There colours are used to warn and scare off predators that they are
dangerous and poisonous. Some scientists think that the amusing pattern of the frogs also act as camouflage among the forest shadows.
They eat mostly on spiders and tiny insects such as ants and
little termites which they find at the bottom of the rainforest floor using their wonderful
vision and their sticky tongues to pick them up and to eat them
with FUN FACTS1.Just three types of Poison arrow Frogs are dangerous to humans
2.Scientists think that the frog gets all of their poison from all of the insects they eat in the wild
3.They may live for at least 15 years4.Unlike other amphibians the Poison dart frog is a bad swimmer because they live
on the ground or in trees5.Blood in the frog are being investigated because they think that they can be used
as muscle relaxers, pain relieves and appetite reducers
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Macaw
Rhinoceros beetle
Morpho Butterfly Boa Constrictor
Tree Snail Spider MonkeyBengal Tiger
Sloth
Piranha Siamang
Toucan
Gibbon Xenops Tarsier Long nosed Bandicoot
Coppery bushtail possum Ocelot Serval Quetzal pademelon
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Grass-Grasshopper-Frog-Snake-Hawk
Eagle-Turtle-Worm-Dead plants
Grass-Butterfly-Birds-Lynx
Lion-Deer-Grass-Sun
Sun-Flowers-Rat-Turtle
Anaconda-Alligator-Monkey-Bananas
Spider Monkey-Macaw-Butterfly-Leaves
Boa Constrictor-sloth-Toucan-Bee hive(honey)
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1. Sloths only walk 12 feet a day!
2. Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day!
3. More than 2000 species of animals are found in the American rainforest!
4. 80% of the Australian Rainforest flowers are not found anywhere else in the world!
5.1 Out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from Rainforest plants
More than 2,150 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests of South America.
An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each couple of seconds.
The trees of the tropical rainforest are so big and cloudy that when rain is falling it takes at least 10
minutes to reach the ground.
In the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae are able to grow in their
fur!
The forests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of plants.
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