Transcript Slide 1

Raffi and
Nicholas
Tropical rainforests are located in a band
around the equator.
The largest rainforests are in:
the Amazon River Basin (South America),
the Congo River Basin (western Africa),
and southeast Asia.
The smallest rainforests are in:
Central America,
Madagascar,
Australia and nearby islands,
India, and other locations in the tropics.
• The atmosphere in a tropical
Rainforest is permanently
humid-hot and damp
• Rainforests are very dense,
warm, wet and dark
• It is almost always raining in
the rainforests.
Agus and
Luna
• They help stabilize the
world's climate
• They provide a
home to many
animals and plants
• They are
interesting places
to visit
•They protect
against floods,
droughts and
erosion
•They are
source for
medicines and
food.
•They support
tribal people
There are four types of layers and
they are different because of their
height.
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Emergent layer: This layer of the rainforest is made of trees
stretching about 60 meters above the rainforest floor.
Canopy: In this layer the branches are often densely
covered with other plants and tied together with lianas.
This layer supports most of the rainforest animals like:
sloth, toucans and bats.
Under Story: It’s a dark cool environment. There are
some animals like: snakes, jaguars and red-eyed tree
frogs.
Forest Floor: Since very little sunlight reaches the floor,
plant life is quite sparse in this level. The biggest animals live
there.
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Sugar Cane is grown in mainly tropical
climates.
Sugar is derived from two principal sources:
Cane Sugar - a large bamboo type plant up to 5 meters and
more.
Sugar Beet - grown in colder climates, it looks like a turnip.
On average it takes between 12 months and 2 years
to plant and harvest a crop and some types can grow
nearly as tall as a house.
We find these white grains at our tables every day.
Vicky and Sere
The original home of the coffee plant is Africa.
It grows to the height of 7- 8 meters but the cultivated plants are cut to
the height of 2- 4 meters
It needs an average temperature 19º to 25º degrees Celsius
It can be harvested from the 5th year and harvesting can occur many
times throughout the year.
The coffee plant cannot stand frost but does not die
from cold. It needs lots of water to be able to grow.
Vicky and Sere
The cacao tree is an
evergreen that grows
to about 7,62 m
The tree grows
an oblong fruit
called a pod,
each pod
contains 20 to 60
reddish-brown
cocoa beans.
Most rubber
is still
produced in
the same
way as it
was 100
years ago.
The latex
collected in
the forest is
slowly
dripped on a
pole.
Natural
Rubber
comes from
the
Rainforest.
Rubber trees
are among
the tallest
trees in the
Rainforest.
•They are tropical plants that grow
in warm climate
• They have many uses, and are
turned into many things (oil, sap)
•They are monoic, have
male and female flowers
on the same tree
The oil is from their kernels
• The fruits grow in
bunches at the top of each
tree
Frank and John B
Sap is like trees
blood.
You can use it
as fuel.
The sap is very sweet
and contains little
alcohol when it is first
taken from the tree; it is
a very popular drink.
Animals are in danger
because humans are
clearing the Rainforest
and destroying the
animals’ habitats.
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suffocate
their
prey.
•They are
very long
and they
can even be
5.5 m long.
•They feed on large
lizards, small or moderate
sized birds,
opossums,
bats, mongooses, rats and
squirrels.
•They are
nocturnal
hunters and
they use heatsensitive pits to
locate their prey.
•Their best prey are
bats; they catch them by
knocking them out of the
air as they fly by.
They are
pinkish or
tan in
color, with
dark
crossbands.
• It has a big, colorful beak.
•The female is bigger
than the male.
• Its feathers are
very colorful.
•It doesn't fly at all because he jumps from
branch to branch.
•It eats fruits, eggs and insects.
•It lives in holes of trees that other
animals made and left abandoned.
•It is one of the largest cats of
the Rainforest and it can be
identified by its yellowish
orange coat and its black
spots filled with black rosettes.
•Jaguars can be
endangered.
•It hunts throughout the day
and will eat almost
everything it can catch
including monkeys,
peccaries, tapirs, fish, which
it will scoop out of the water.
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•There are less jaguars in
the world because people
are destroying their habitat
and are hunting them for
their fur.
Tadeo and Santi
People are cutting trees because:
• they use their timber.
• they want room for cows, to kill them
and have more beef.
• they burn trees so the crops can
grow faster.
• they want to have more money.
• they want more room for plantations
• they mine for rocks, metals and
minerals
•they drill to find oil.
• they make dams.
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Experts say that we lose 137
We are losing plants which can cure diseases and may
plants,
animals
and medicines
contain
many
other medicines
that we haven’t discovered yet.
every
day.
As we are cutting trees and burn them, the smoke
breaks the ozone layer and that has an impact on
We lose 50,000 species a year.
global warming.
MORA
Tell your friends and family how important
Rainforests are.
Ask your teacher to teach your class more about
Rainforests.
Ask your parents to buy
foods -like bananas and
coffee – that are grown in a
way that is safe for the
animals, plants and people
who live in the Rainforest.
You can easily find these
products by looking at the
Rainforest stamp on the
products.
VALENTINA
STAMP
use less paper
instead of throwing used
paper away, cut it up to use
as a notepad
collect paper to recycle
ask your parents and
teachers to teach you how
to recycle paper.
make paper out of old newspaper
JOSEFINA