Tropical Rainforest TEAM B

1. Tropical RainforestTEAM B Josh L Claudia S Shane S Alex Y

2. Location Continents: • South America • Australia • Africa • Asia • North America

4. Near Equator • Closer to Middle of Earth • Causes Warm Temperatures

5. Climate • 25ºC to 27ºC • Hot & Rainy • 200 cm per year • Little Change In Temperature

6. Plants and adaptations • Adaptions • Bright colors for pollination • Ability to grow with very little sunlight • Ability to grow in unfertile soil • Camouflage • Plants or animals decay • plants • Trees • Vines • Cashew apple trees • Candle bush • Orchids • Venus fly trap

7. Jaguar Poison Dart Frog Toucan Green Mamba Spider Monkey

8. Animals and Adaptations Monkeys and Apes Long Arms to Swing Through the Canopy Birds Beaks can be a used to lose heat Jaguar Has Developed the Ability to Swimming Amphibians Suction Cups on Feet Allows them to Live in Trees Reptiles Wide Range of Sizes

9. Environmental Issues • Deforestation • Animal exploitation / hunting • Climate change

11. Deforestation • Oxygen • Home / Life • Forms • including fires • clear-cutting for agriculture • ranching and development • unsustainable logging • Threatens animals and plants • 46-58 thousand square miles • Need of land, lumber, and pulp • Effects: • Temperature and rainfall • Useful products • Endanger / Extinction

12. Animal Exploitation / Hunting • food and clothing • rodeos and circuses • testing medicines, cosmetics and household products, scientific experiments • abused or neglected

13. Climate Change • Human activity • Higher temperatures • Sea levels rising