Rainforest

SQUAWK! Deep in the rainforest are some parrots communicating to one another about the food they have just found. Around the rainforest are many more animals within each level: the forest floor, the understory, the canopy, and if you are lucky, you may find an emergent tree. There are many types of rainforest. There is the monsoon rainforest. Unlike tropical rainforests, these have a dry season. They also shed leaves year round. These grow in southeast Asia. Montane rainforests are around the Earth, but only grow in mountainous regions. Temperate rainforests grow in northwestern United States and Australia. Tropical rainforests are around the Equator in areas called the tropics. Very hot tropical rainforests can get up to more than 70 inches of rain each year. Rainforests are said to be the environment with the most types, or species of plants and animals. Many of these animals are waiting to be discovered by humans. Not only these things live here, people do too! There are different tribes of people surviving in the rainforest. How would it be to live in the rainforest?

By Tessa Sagner