RAINFOREST

Flying Dragon

• Eats-ants /termites
• Size-19or22cm
• Scientific name -Draco volans
• Habitat- rainforest,rubber plantations
• Family members-aramid lizard

CHIMPANZEE

• Eat- fruits,nuts,leaves,bark,eggs and insects
• Size- 68/94cm
• Scientific name- pan troglodytes
• Habitats-rainforest,savannah with woodland
• Family members- hominid

INDIAN COBRA

• Eats- small mammals,reptiles and amphibians
• Size- 1.8/2.2m
• Family members-Cobras and sea snakes
• Scientific name- naja
• Habitat- rainforest,rice fields,cultivated land

CRESTED GUAN

• Eats- fruits and seeds
• Size-89cm(35in)
• Family members- curassows
• Scientific name- Penelope purpurascens
• Habitat-lowland rainforest and drier areas

BRAZILIAN TAPIR

• Eats- leaves,fruits,grasses and aquatic plants
• Size-2m(6 1/2 ft)
• Family members - tapiars
• Scientific name - tapirus terrestris
• Habitat - rainforest ,near water or swamps

VANILA

• Used in food
• Pollinated by hand or small bee
• It's from Mexico
• Flowers turn into vanilla "beans"
• Mostly grow in Central America and Madagascar

FISHBONE CACTUS

• Grown in Southern Mexico Rainforest
• In Cactus family
• Flowers bloom each year just for few nights
• It's bloom yellow flowers
• The stems looks like branches

TALIPOT PALM

• Umbraculifera means "Bears an Umbrella "
• They are the largest plant in the plant kingdom
• In Palm Family
• It dies after flowering and fruiting
• It grows 80 feet high

COCCOLOBA

• Buckwheat Family
• Also known as Eve's Umbrella
• It can grow to 80 feet tall
• It can be used as a pot plant
• The leaves are a rusty color

BANYAN TREE

• Mulberry Family
• It's growing on another plant
• It's taking moisture and nutrients from the air and rain
• Native to India and Pakistan
• Helps tree become very big

RAINFOREST LANDSCAPE

• It's has hills and mountains
• It's muddy, because it doesn't have lots of sunlight
• It's dark, because of all the trees
• There is a lot of waterfalls
• It has poor soil, because the rain washes away the nutrients

CLIMATE IN THE RAINFOEST

• It is very hot and humid all year round
• When it rains it usually rains about 250cm per year
• It rains so much because it is very hot and wet

FUN FACTS

• over 25% of natural medicines have been discovered in rainforests
• There are 2 types of rainforests,temperate and tropical
• Within four square miles of tropical rainforest,you will find 1500 flowering plant species
• There are 750 types of trees
• over 2000 types of plants you will find in the rainforest

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