Rainforest

By:Andrea GarciaAaron Adams

And Charlie Miller

Rain fall + precipitation

•Monthly temp. 64F •Precipitation 100 inch

Medicine of the Rainforest

• One in every four ingredients in modern medicines are located in the rainforests.

• These include vincristine which treats leukemia in children and trumpet flowers whose pollen can open airways during asthma attacks although if it is used incorrectly it can cause death.

Food web

Types of Plants

• Bengal Bamboo • Bougainvillea • Curare• Coconut Tree • Durian • Jambu• Kapok Tree• Mangrove Forests • Strangler Figs • Tualang

Animals

• Africa Forest Elephant• Bengal Tiger • Chimpanzee• Common Palm Civetor Musang • Dawn Bat• Golden Lion Tamarin• Harpy Eagle• Jambu Fruit Dove• King Cobra

Animals cont.

• Kinkajou• Linn's Sloth • Orangutan• Proboscis Monkey• Red-shanked Douc Langur• Silvery Gibbon • Slender Loris• Sumatran Rhinoceros• Toco Toucan • Vampire Bat• Wagler's Pit Viper

Human Influence

• Every second a football sized part of the rainforest is cut down.

• That means 86,400 football sized areas are cut down every day!

• In the beginning there were 6 million square miles of the rainforest existed now only 2.6 million square miles remain due to human influence.

Amount of light

Light is available at the top of the canopy but not in the lower areas.

Efforts being made

• The Nature Conservancy is currently working with its partners to protect tropical and temperate rainforests in 23 countries throughout North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.

• Google is working with an indigenous tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest to protect their native lands from illegal encroachment

Quiz

• What is the average rainfall yearly?• Name one animal.• Name one plant.• How much light is there?• What percentage of plants are used for

medicine?

Works cited

• www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm• www.Savetherainforest.org• www.newworldencyclopedia.org/• http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/rainforest_ecology.html