Rainforests+A

__RAIN FORESTS__
-50-260 inches of rain fall each year.

- Very warm, tropical climate.

- Temperature rarely gets higher than 93 degrees Fahrenheit

- Temperature rarely drop lower than 68 degrees Fahrenheit

- All rain forests are down south near the equator, you will not find any up north.

- More than half of the worlds plants animals species are located in rainfroests

- Produce 40% of our oxygen

- 70% of rain forest plants are trees.

- There is about 100-300 type of trees in a rain forest.

-Rain forests cover about 75 million acres in the world.

- 1/5 of the worlds fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.

-The largest rain forest is the Amazon.

- More than 56,000 acres of rain forest are lost each year.

- The Amazon covers 1.2 million acres of land.

**__ANIMALS__**

Some of the animals in a rain forest you can find are:- Bengal Tiger

- Vampire Bat

- Chimanzee

- Orangutan

- Harpy Eagle

- King Cobra

-Sumatran Rhinecoceros

**WEBSITES WE USED**

www.blueplanetbiomes.org

www.nature.org

www.rain-tree.com

globalwarming.house.gov