Biome rainforest

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Biome: Rainforest Paige Lamb and Callie Victoria

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Biome: RainforestPaige Lamb and Callie Victoria

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Climate

Very humid due to heavy rainfall (250cm per year)

Very hot and wet

Near the equator giving it more sunlight

77 degrees on average

Temperature never drops below 64 degrees

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Plants

Main plants are trees

Trees act as a shield between the rain and the ground: the canopy

The canopy also keeps sunlight from reaching the plants below

Forest floor is called the understory

The understory is made up of smaller trees, ferns, and mosses

Some of the major plant are Bromeliads, Lianas, Strangler Figs, Pitcher Plants, and Rubber Trees.

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Bromeliads

Thick waxy leaves which form a bowl shape to catch rainwater

Can hold up to several gallons of water

Have miniature ecosystems within themselves (frogs, salamander, snails, and beetles)

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Lianas Climbing vine

Thick woody stems

Various lengths (up to 3000ft)

Begin life on the understory, but climb trees for sunlight

Attach themselves to trees with sucker roots, tendrils, or wind themselves around the trees.

Spread to other trees once the reach the top of one.

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Strangler Figs

Start life high in the trees

Seedlings send roots to the ground

Surrounds the host tree and eventually suffocates the host (Parasitism)

When the host dies, it leaves the Strangler with a hollow core

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Pitcher Plant

Grows to be 30ft tall

Pitchers grow to be 12in in length

Filled with digestive fluid and insects

Eat small animals and reptiles when they try to steal the

insects inside of the plant

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Rubber Trees

Grow to be 100-130ft

Can live up to 100 years

Famous for its milky white sap, known as latex

In order to reproduce, the fruit bursts open, scattering

the seeds up to 100ft away from the tree.

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Animals

Extremely diverse wildlife

Support a broad array of animals (mammals, reptiles, birds, and invertebrates)

Animals are well adapted to life there

Many animal species are tree-dwelling

Some of the animals include Poison Dart Frogs, Harpy Eagles, Jaguars, and Anacondas

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Poison Dart Frog

Eat termites, crickets, flies, and ants

Grow to be 1-7cm in length

Lay group eggs in water and take 12 days to hatch

More than 100 species

Skin contains poison

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Harpy Eagle

Diet consists of sloths, monkeys, and other small animals

Grow to be 35-41 inches

Will lay 1-2 eggs in a 2-3 year timespan, in which only one egg hatches

Talons can be as large as the claws of a Grizzly Bear

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Jaguar

Diet consists of turtles, deer, and tapirs

Grow to be 5.5-8 feet

Females have a 100 day gestation period

Can give birth to 2-4 cubs

3rd largest big cat in the world

Can live up to 20-30 years

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Anaconda

Diet consists of rodents, fish, turtles, and larger mammals

Take several weeks or longer to digest a meal

Hunt by submerging all but its nostrils in the water

Can reach 37 feet in length

Bear live young snakes

Kills its prey by squeezing the animal until it can

no longer breath

Swallow its prey whole.

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Interesting Fact

A lot of the rain never reaches the ground, it stays in the trees

The trees can reach up to 164ft tall

Contain more than 50% of all species on earth

An area the size of a football field is being destroyed each second

1 in 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants