Tropical rainforests are located in South and Central America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. They have hot and wet climates year-round with high rainfall and humidity. Tropical rainforests contain over half of the world's plant and animal species and are losing 137 species per day due to deforestation. They feature tall emergent trees, a dense canopy layer, an understory area below the canopy, and a forest floor.

1. Tropical Rainforests
Steiner Ráhel & Nagy Dóra
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2. 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

3. Location
• South and Central America
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
Congo Basin
South-east Asia
Amazon Basin

4. 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.

5. Plants in the rainforest
• 2/3 of the world’s plants
• 10km2 area contains 1,500 kinds of
flowering plants and 750 tree species

6. SPIDER RED-EYED
TOUCAN JAGUAR MONKEY TREE FROG GORILLA
PIRANHA PARROT BENGAL GIBBON VIPER
TIGER

7. Facts 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.

8. • An area of a rainforest the size of a
football field is being destroyed each
second.
• More than 2,000 tropical forest plants
have been identified by scientists as
having anti-cancer properties.
• The trees of a tropical rainforest are so
densely packed that rain falling on the
canopy can take as long as 10
minutes to reach the ground.

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