Tropical Rainforest Biome

Tropical Rainforest Biome

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By: Emmy

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Half of the plant and animal spiecies in the world live in the Tropical rainforests. It is one of the oldest ecosystems on Earth. Some of the rainforests in Southeast Asia have been around for over 100 million years! It was around when dinosaurs where walking around. Animals in the tropical rainforest have special adaptations so that they are able to live in this unique environment. Many of the animals living in the tropical rainforest have made their homes in trees.. One example is New World monkeys that have prehensile tails that curl around branches allowing the monkey to hold onto the tree with its tail! Other animals are brightly colored, sharply patterned, have loud vocalizations, and like to eat lots of fruit. Most of the animals in the tropical rainforest live in the canopy. There is so much food available up there that some animals never go down to explore the forest floor! Birds are important to rainforest. there are many different kinds of birds.

Trees

There are hundreds of species of trees. Some trees can live for a very long time; up to 1000 years! The thin, smooth bark that most trees in the tropical rainforests have help them to mot have other plants growing on them. Because the rainforest is so moist and wet trees don't need thick bark to keep them from drying out. Trees often have large branching ridges, called buttresses, for support because their roots are often shallow and they grow tall to reach the sunlight.

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There are mny species of trees in temperate rainforests. All of the trees are mostly coniferous, meaning they have needles. Trees in temperate rainforests can live as old as 1000 years! That's a lot older than the oldest human ever. Tropical rainforests have a bigger variety of trees, hundreds of species in fact! These trees are mostly broadleaf trees and have a shorter lifespan. They usually live for 50 - 100 years. Most trees in tropical rainforests have thin, smooth bark. They don’t need thick bark to keep them from drying out because of all of the moisture in the air. Thin dark also helps the trees to not have plants growing on them Many plants in the rainforests have adapted leaf shapes that help water drip off the plant to avoid too much moisture, which might make bacteria and fungus grow.

Trees

All year long the Tropical rainforests are lush and warm! Temperatures don’t vary much between night and day. The average temperature in tropical rainforests ranges from 70 to 85°F (21 to 30°C). It is pretty wet in the tropical rainforests.The environment is pretty wet in tropical rainforests, maintaining a high humidity of 77% to 88% year-round. It gets 80-400 in of rain each year, and it can rain hard. It can have as much rainfall as 2 inches (5 cm) in an hour in hard storms! Temperate rainforests can also be very wet, but they are not as rainy as tropical rainforests. It rains about from 60 - 200 inches (150 - 500 cm) each year in a temperate rainforest. The Temperate area gets its other moisture from the coastal fog that lingers on the trees. Each year the fog provides about 7 - 12 inches (18 - 30°C) of rain. Temperatures are still mild even though temperate rainforests are a lot cooler than tropical rainforests. They often have two seasons: one long wet winter, and a short drier summer.

There are temperate and tropical rainforests. You can find Temperate rainforests along coasts in temperate regions. The largest temperate rainforests Are in North America, stretching from Alaska to Oregon. Other temperate rainforests are found along the coast of Chile, the United Kingdom, Norway, Japan, New Zealand, and S. Australia. Tropical rainforests can be found around the world: In Central and South America; in Western Africa, eastern Madagascar, and the Zaire basin; and in Indo-Malaysia along the west coast of India, Assam, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Queensland, Australia.

Biomes

The Earth is divided into large natural areas called biomes. All of the biomes are different in their temperature, climate, and animals. There are land and aquatic biomes on our planet. There are 6 land biomes on Earth. They include the Desert, Tropical Rainforest, Taiga, Tundra, and the Deciduous forest biomes.

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