Tropical Rain Forest
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Animal Pictures of a Tropical Rainforest
Spider |
Rainforests are tremendously rich in animal life. Rainforests are populated with insects (like butterflies and beetles), arachnids (like spiders and ticks), worms, reptiles (like snakes and lizards), amphibians (like frogs and toads), birds (like parrots and toucans) and mammals (like sloths and jaguars).
Different animals live in different strata of the rainforest. For example, birds live in the canopy (upper leaves of the trees) and in the emergents (the tops of the tallest trees). Large animals (like jaguars) generally live on the forest floor, but others (like howler monkeys and sloths) are arboreal (living in trees). Insects are found almost everywhere.
Many species of rainforest animals are endangered and many other have gone extinct as the number of acres of rainforests on Earth decreases.
Frog |
Toucan |
Crop Map of The Tropical Rain forest
- about 2,000 trees per minute are cut down in rainforests
- leaves have adapted to allow rapid rain removal in several ways – smooth, waxy leaves (like Balsam Apple), drip tips (like Bo tree), holes (like Swiss Cheese plant), and divided, lobed or fringed leaves (like palms)
- many foods, especially fruits, originated in the rainforests; over 3000 kinds of fruits can be found in rainforests, but only about 200 are in use right now; examples of common rainforest foods are oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, coconut, avocadoes, starfruit, dates, figs, papaya, bananas, coffee, chocolate (cacao), chewing gum (chicle), ginger, cinnamon, pepper, vanilla, cashews, Brazil nuts, tapioca, sweet potatoes, guava, passion fruit, ginger root, mangoes, and lemons (ones in bold are located in the dome)
Crop Map |
Climate Map of a Tropical Rain Forest
Most people think all rainforests have warm, sunny weather, but they're wrong. Only the rainforests that are located in the tropics, or ten degrees within the equator have year-round warm weather. Subtropical rainforests that lay outside of the tropics have seasonal changes in their weather. There are a couple of types of rainforests. and they are categorized by the types of weather they have during the year and where they are located. The names of these rainforests are monsoon, equatorial, and subtropical.
The tropical rain forest is a very wet environment, as you hear from the name that contains "rain". The total rainfall for the year is between 1500 and 2500 mm. There is no dry season. Rain falls nearly every day. The temperature during the day is around 30ºC - 35ºC. At night it drops to between 20ºC - 25ºC. There is a little difference between the warmest and the coolest months. The relative humidity is always high. This type of climate in the tropical rain forest is known as equatorial climate.
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