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Title artwork by Rachel H.


Monday, May 5, 2014

A.J. P. 4 S

Have you ever wondered what it is like in the tropical rainforest if you have now is your chance to learn if you keep reading.
The tropical rainforest is found in many places such as South Africa, Australia, South East Asia and West Africa.
An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly. The temperature is usually is between 68 and 93 degrees. Humidity is between 77 & 88% rainfall is usually more than 100 inches per year
There are many consumers and producers but the next 7 paragraphs will tell you about a couple consumers and producers in the rain forest.

                                                                                                           
Tigers are consumers they eat a lot of big animals and small ones they are carnivores that means they only eat meat like for example a tiger will eat a rabbit and that is a meat. They have black strips on their red body.

Ocelots are wild cats they live in the tropical rainforest and eats small mammals like birds, snakes, fish and they are great swimmers.

                                                                                                       
Zorro is a fox like dog it weighs about 20 to 22 pounds it lives in the rainforest. Their paws are partly webbed so some people think they are somewhat aquatic.

Quoll is a cat sized carnivore that live in the tropical rain forest mostly down in Australia but sometimes in the other rainforests to.

Drip Tips are a kind of tree in the rainforest the leaves of forest trees like this one adapt to cope with all the rainfall and still survive.

Bark is found on trees everywhere in the world including the rainforest it helps the land keep it’s moister.

Buttress is a tree in the rain forest that is incurable tall it grows to about 30 feet in the air before blending into the trunk.

Hope you enjoyed learning some new interesting facts about the rainforest.