Tropical Rainforest

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Tropical Rainforest
Anthony, Keegan, Isabela
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Where is ecosystem located?

• Madagascar, South and Central America, Australia,
  West Africa, Southeast Asia.

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Describe the abiotic factors of your ecosystem

• Sunlight and moisture usually constant and
  plentiful
• Most temperatures average from 70 to 85 degrees F
• 80 to 400 inches of rain every year
• Sunlight is scarce beneath the layers
• Damp, humid

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Producer Bromeliad. How does your producer rely
on other organisms in the Rain Forest to
survive?

• Animals droppings, frog droppings
• Use tadpole eggs that are not eaten for nutrients
• Attach to tree to grow

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How do other organisms of your ecosystem rely on
your producer to survive

• Shelter for frogs, snakes, lizards
• Provide food for birds that eat insects in the
  bromeliad
• Water for tadpoles

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How do humans affect your ecosystem?

• Chop down trees for farming, cattle and lumber
  -destroys the rainforest
• Oil drilling and spills
• Eco tourisms shows people the rainforests beauty
  without destroying it
• Replanting trees gives animals homes if their
  tree got chopped down

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Choose one biotic or abiotic factor in your
ecosystem describe how a change in one of these
could affect your ecosystem.

• Change no rain
• If there was no rain in the rainforest eventually
  it would become a desert
• Bromeliads would die so the tadpoles die
• Birds that eat tadpoles would die so the snakes
  will die because the snake eats the bird
• The herbivores would die because there would be
  no food (plants) for them
• The carnivores would die because there would be
  no food (animals) for them

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Other interesting facts

• Rainforests have been on earth from 70 to100
  million years
• A quarter of medicine comes from Rainforest

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Sources Used

• Allaby, Michael. Biomes of the world. Danbury ,
  CT Grolier Educational, 1999.
• Bulter, Christine. A Home in the Rain Forest. New
  York, NY Scholastic Inc., 2007. Print.
•  Levy, Janey. Discovering Rain Forests. New York,
  NY The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2008.
  Print.
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