A rainforest is a forest located near the equator with warm weather and heavy rainfall all year. It has four layers from the tallest emergent trees at the top to the forest floor. Rainforests contain over half of the world's plant and animal species and there are five major rainforests: the Amazon, African, Australian, Central American, and Southern Asian rainforests. Indigenous people live in the rainforest as hunters and gatherers growing fruits and vegetables and hunting wildlife like monkeys, deer, and pigs.
2. A rainforest is a forest of tall trees
in an area with year round warm
weather and lots of rain.
3. The temperature in the rainforest
stays about the same all year
long. Rainforest are the wettest
land in the world. Some places
get 32 inches a year.
4. Where are the Rainforests? They
are all over the world. Rainforests
are located around the equator.
5. Rainforests have four parts:
1. Emergent Layers- The tallest trees that stick out
above the rest.
2. Canopy- the top layer of the forest.
3. The understory- the middle layer
4. Forest Floor- Bottom layer.
7. There are five Rainforest in the World. They are the
Amazon Rainforest, African Rainforest, Australian
Rainforest, Central American Rainforests, Southern
Asian Rainforests.
15. The people of the Rainforest are hunters and
gatherers. They grow fruits and vegetables. The
hunt wild pigs, deer, alligators, sloths, and monkeys.