Lesson About Rainforests

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Lesson About Rainforests

• Amber Maddack

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• The rainforests of the world have many different
  locations.
• Some are located in central America, but have
  been mostly been cleared out.
• There are some in Africa, as well as Southern
  Asia.
• In New Zealand the rainforests have animals that
  cannot be found any where else in the world.
• The largest rainforest in the world is located in
  the Amazon.
• One fifth of the worlds animal species and one
  tenth of the worlds plant species lives in the
  Amazon rainforest.
• The rainforests have a very dense humid climate
  that keeps the plants and animals alive.

Locations of Rainforests
Why cant rainforests grow in the United States?
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Animals of the rainforest

• Over half of the worlds animal species live in
  the rainforest.
• They live in the canopy, and on the rainforest
  floor.
• All the animals eat different food based on where
  they live in the rainforest.
• Animals are found in a wide variety of colors.
  The Macaw is red and yellow and blue it is a
  very brightly colored bird.

Click the Spider Monkey for more info.
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Plants
Click picture for more info.

• There are thousands of different kinds of plants
  in the rainforest.
• All the plants have different jobs in the
  rainforest.
• Some plants are food for different animals, and
  some plants make up the canopy of the rainforest.
• The canopy acts as a shelter to all the animals
  and the plants on the forest floor.

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People in the rainforest

• Besides the vast variety of plants and animals in
  the rainforest, there are also many people and
  tribes that live there.
• The Pygmies are a people with two different
  tribes the Mbuti, and the Baka. They live by
  hunting animals and gathering plants. This people
  is from Central Africa.
• The Huli tribe is different, the men and women
  live apart from each other. The live in Papua New
  Guinea in large houses that hold a group of
  people.
• The Yanomami is the largest group of the
  Amerindian tribes. They build there village
  around a yano, or big group house, made of vines
  and leaves.

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Deforestation

• Now, the world is cutting down the rainforest for
  many different reasons. By doing so they are
  destroying rare animal and plant species.
• Many of our medicine today was created through
  the help of rainforest plants. Scientists have
  not had enough time to study the rainforest.
  Perhaps there is a cure for cancer or AIDS in
  there.
• Destroying the rainforests also adds to the
  problem of the hole in our ozone layer. The trees
  of the rainforest give off so much clean oxygen
  that it helps keep the problem at bay. Without
  them it will get worse faster.

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Why we should appreciate the rainforest.

• We get a lot of things from the rainforests, here
  are some food examples.
• Chocolate
• Cinnamon
• Sugar
• Pineapples

• Look at all the beauty that the rainforest gives
  us. Different species of flowers, beautiful
  waterfalls, amazing animals, and cleaner air.
• The rainforests are filled with mystery and
  wonder. Who knows what lives in them that have
  yet to be discovered?