Sunday, May 8, 2011

Half of the world's population of animals live in the rain forest which means there is a lot to explain.
There is an enormous amount of animal species that live in the rain forest, that means many animals have a variety of different habitats and food sources.
Animals in the rain forest are now losing what they need to survive.cattle ranching and crop farming are some of the ways animals have lost food sources and habitats.
What most people don't realize is how important our rain forests are, everything has a purpose in life so do rain forests God created it for many reasons so let's find ways to take care of it.
there are a great variety of rain forests. These include the Amazon rain forest, African Rainforest, Southern Asia rainforest, and the Australasia rainforest.
Within these rainforests lies a diverse range of animals. These include Toucans, boa constrictors, macaws, spider monkeys, sloths, poison arrow frogs, and many others.
Rainforests are vegetation types dominated by broad-leaved trees that form a dense upper canopy (layer of foliage) and contain a diverse array of vegetation. Contrary to common thinking, not all rainforests occur in places with high, constant rainfall; for example, in the so-called “dry rainforests” of northeastern Australia the climate is punctuated by a dry season, which reduces the annual precipitation. Nor are all forests in areas that receive large amounts of rainfall true rainforests; the conifer-dominated forests in the extremely wet coastal areas of the American Pacific Northwest are temperate evergreen forest ecosystems. Therefore, to avoid conveying misleading climatic information, the term rainforest is now preferred over rain forest.
More than two thirds of the world's plant species are found in the tropical rainforests: plants that provide shelter and food for rainforest animals as well as taking part in the gas exchanges which provide much of the world's oxygen supply.
Rainforest plants live in a warm humid environment that allows an enormous variation rare in more temperate climates: some like the orchids have beautiful flowers adapted to attract the profusion of forest insects.
Orchids comprise one of the most abundant and varied of flowering plant families. There are over 20,000 known species and orchids are especially common in moist tropical regions. Although temperate orchids usually grow in the soil, tropical orchids are more often epiphytes which grow non-parasitically on trees.
Orchid flowers vary considerably in shape color and size, although they share a common pattern of three petals and three petal-like sepals. The lower petal has a very distinctive appearance.
what all the rainforests have in common is that they require a fair bit of rain.Rainforests are also known for very tall trees.animals of the rainforest have also adapted to a life in a moist place crowded with species.Frogs and reptiles are also very abundant in rainforests. Many frogs are tree frogs, and many snakes are tree snakes. Most lizards can also climb trees. Waterholes are often inhabited by turtles and rivers by large killer crocodiles.
Rainforest plants thrive extremely well in their environment, because every plant loves a lot of water, and rainforests are indeed very wet places.This means rainforests are thick and dense, full of plant life, and packed with different plants - it gets so crowded that the biggest competition is this of sunlight.
Rainforests provide habitat for a variety of different animals they contain an abundance of varying plant life, some of which is used to create cures for different diseases.The preservation of the world's rainforests are not only in the best interest of the plant's and animals that live there but the world itself.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Rainforest
BY Alyce Ballard


Half of the world's population of animals live in the rain forest which means there is a lot to explain.

There is an enormous amount of animal species that live in the rain forest, that means many animals have a variety of different habitats and food sources.

But animals in the rain forest are now losing what they need to survive.
cattle ranching and crop farming are some of the ways animals have lost food sources and habitats.

there are ways to prevent destruction in the rain forest, but most people don't know how important our rain forest are, everything has a purpose in life so do rain forest God created rain forest for many reason so let's find ways to take care of it.