*+Rainforests

__Members__: Hannah, Tayla

=** It’s usually in the parts of America but they can also be in untouched places. Untouched places means that places that humans haven't built buildings or things such as that. Rain forest's are mostly around the earths equator or as the kids say " the earths imaginary line". In the map to your right the green and dark green places are rain forest's. You can see that there are light green plots too! Those are just normal plots of land that we live in right now this second. Tropical rain forests are located near the equator. Fifty seven percent of all tropical rain forests are found in Latin America. One third of the world's tropical rainforests are in Brazil. Other tropical rainforests are located in Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands and West Africa. **=  ** =**Rain forests belongs to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest its rare if it gets higher than 93 °F or if it drops below 68 °F. So mostly it belongs in warm places or right in the middle of the earth.**=
 * Habitat Pictures **
 * This is a picture of one of the world’s beautiful rain forest's. You can see there is a lot of green in this area just by the picture. This is a view of an uphill full of green. The uphill from the other side might look like a mountain, it could be a hill to. **
 * Geographical Location **
 * A world map that shows where your habitat is located
 * Climate and daily temperature **

=**Resources (list of books and URL website addresses used)**= [|://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/where.html#AM]

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=**__Answer this question:__**= Living things in my habitat get food by eating there type of prey. Like prey and predators. Some animals depend on the plants, like monkeys, they eat bananas. My habitat includes every thing for the animals to be alive and living. For example pandas eat bamboo. **
 * How do the living things in your habitat get food? Does your habitat include the necessary components needed for the survival of all living things in it? Explain and give examples.


 * [[image:Rainforest_2.jpg width="159" height="119" caption="this is a picture of a rainforest"]] ||
 * this is a picture of a rainforest ||

__**Water sources in your habitat**__

 2. Toucan

3. Parrot 4. Spider Monkey 5. sloth 6. Orangutan 7. Jaguar 8. cuckoo 9. Bengal Tiger

10. Harpy Eagle =**=**=

URL adresses http://kids.mongabay.com/lesson_plans/handout.html http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=6

== Today, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed and is gone forever. The land is being cleared for cattle ranches, mining operations, logging, to use the wood to make houses and paper and subsistence agriculture. Some forests are being burned to make charcoal to power industrial plants. More than half of the world's rainforests have been destroyed by fire and logging in the last 50 years. Over 200,000 acres are burned every day around the world, or over 150 acres every minute. Experts also estimate that 130 species of plants, animals, and insects are lost every day. ==

=== The Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia, is one of the world's greatest natural resources. Because it's vegetation continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen, it has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet". About 20% of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest. ===

How do the living things in your habitat get food? Does your habitat ** ** include the necessary components needed for the survival of all living things in it? Explain and give examples. ** Animals can get food from the leaves and berries on the trees. Smaller animals are eaten by bigger animals and plants survive from rain water and light, as well as nutrients in the soil. The habitat does include the components needed to survive because it has sun light for the trees, and animals use it to see where they are going. There is food for animals such as berries and leaves for monkies up high in the trees and there are plants low on the ground for smaller animals and insects. Animals such as tigers and the Harpy Eagle, will eat small animals, known as prey, and the other birds eat worms and other insects found in the rainforest.
 * __Answer this question__