2. The Tropical rainforest is very wet. Rain
falls nearly every day. The total rain fall
per year is between 1500 and 2500mm. The
air is very humid because of some of the
high temperatures the rainforest
sometimes get. The air is so humid it fills
about 70% of the air.
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3. The temperature in the day is
between 30 and 35 degrees
Celsius. During the night it is
between 20 and 25 degrees.
Tropical rainforests grow along
the equator so they are in a hot
climate. Temperate rainforests
grow in other places and
tropical rainforests get more
rain than temperate ones.
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4. The Tropical Rainforests need to
grow in warm places so they
grow along the equator. Some
of the continents include Central
and South America, Central
Africa and Southern Asia.
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5. One well known tropical rainforest is
called the Amazon Rainforest and is
located in the upper section of South
America. These countries have smaller
rainforests: Southern China, North East
Australia, India, Madagascar and Papua
New Guinea.
6. The Rainforest is full
of wonderful plants
and here are some
of them.
Bengal bamboo
Coconut tree
Passion Flower
Drip leaves
Mangrove Forests
Curare
Orchids
Rubber Tree
Buttress Roots
7. Bengal Bamboo
Bengal Bamboo is found in the Southeast
Asian Rainforest. The Bamboo does very
well in a moist environment with lots of rain.
It likes the temperature between 4 and 38
degrees Celsius. It can grow between 40
and 80 feet high. The colour is dark green
and some types are sort of brown. The
leaves are long and narrow.
DID YOU KNOW?
• That Bengal Bamboo is actually a grass. It
is the largest grass in the world!
• It grows very fast and it has a life span
between 25 and 40 years.
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8. Rainforest Orchids
Rainfores t Orchids are found everywhere in
the world but majorly in the rainforests. They
come in many different colours, sizes and
shapes. The Bucket Orchid is from Central
America and it has small bucket on it (as says
its name) that attracts bees. World-
wide, there are over 25,000 different species
of orchids. In the rainforest, orchids grow on
tree branches and tree trunks.
DID YOU KNOW?
• The flavour vanilla come from the vanilla
orchid.
• Orchids grow on every continent apart from
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9. The Rainforest is also full of
wonderful animals and
here are some of them:
• Spider Monkey
• Toucan
• Gorilla
• Jaguar
• Sloth
• Vampire Bat
• Morpho Butterfly
• Orangutan
• Bengal Tiger
• Macaw
• Red-eye tree frog
10. Morpho Butterfly
The Morpho Butterfly is born as a brown-red
caterpillar with patches on it’s back coloured
lime-green. Their wingspan is between 13-
17cm, with brown dots around the edge and
bright blue wings. They only like it very humid
and a temperature between 35 and 40 degrees
Celsius. They try to find rotten fruit to drink the
juice out of as food. Their predators include
baby jaguars, fish and birds.
DID YOU KNOW?
• There are actually about 50 species of
Morpho butterflies.
• That they are called the Morpho Butterfly
because the underside of the wing is the
colour of a moth’s wing.
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11. Spider Monkey
Spider Monkeys live in South and Central
America. The are omnivores and they are
mammals. Their life span is between 20-30 years
in the wild. Their size is between 14-26 inches or
35 to 66cm. Their weight is about 6 kg. If they
are in a group, it’s called a troop. They spend
much of their time swinging from tree to tree.
They’re usually in groups of 30. Their diet is made
up of 90% fruit and nuts, seeds, eggs and
insects.
DID YOU KNOW?
• That their name was made after their look
when they have all four limbs on
braches, with their tail and it makes them look
like a spider.
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13. Python Jaguar
Vampire Bats Iguanas Red-Eye Tree Frog
Chimpanzees Parrots
Macaws Fruit Bats Monkeys Insects
Orchids Seeds Banana Tree Bamboo Coconut Tree
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14. 80% of Australian flowers are not found
anywhere else in the world
There’re over 30 million species of plants
and animals in the rainforest
An area the size of a football field is
being destroyed each second
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest
rainforest in the world
Rainforests used to cover 14% of the
earths surface but it now only covers 6%
15. There are over 750 species of trees in
the rainforest
Rainforests have 170,000 of the world’s
250,000 plants
The USA has about 80 or more species
of frogs
Rainforests are very important to us
and the Earth because the plants from
the rainforest generate much of the
Earth’s oxygen
