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= = = = = = =//** The Rainforest **//=

__By: Aurelia, Zuzia, Phoebe and Emma __
==Can you imagine a tropical rainforest? Lets see if you can!!!!! The trees can be 200 feet high in the rainforest. Can you feel the leaves and vines swaying in the breeze? Feel the leaves on the canopy trees making the small drops of water fall down, drip, drip, drip. In rainforests it can rain all year. Feel half the live of Earth stirring around you. There is 50 percent of animals in the Amazon rainforest. Feel the warm, wet wind in your face. There is so much air in the rainforest because there are so many trees and plants.Trees and plants provide oxygen. There are four layers in the rainforest. The emergent layer, (the trees that hover over the canopy), the canopy (the second highest, and the most green), the understory,the second busiest layer, and also third highest, and the busiest layer: the forest floor, which is often dark and humid. Maybe you saw a bearded pig? Or a poison dart frog on a branch in the understory? Or a jaguar? Be careful! If you felt it and saw it then you know what it looks and feels like in a tropical rainforest.==

**The rainforest is in big danger. As people are** **them down, more animals and plants are** **dying.**

 * ====average temperature: warm,wet====
 * ====interesting fact: half of the island of Fiji is covered in rainforests====
 * ====interesting fact: Amazon rainforest has 50% of the animals on Earth====
 * ====interesting fact: rainforest trees always "sweat" water====
 * ====interesting fact: a main rainforest emergent tree is called a teak====
 * ====interesting fact: the rainforest is the richest place with life on Earth====

**Rainforest Animals:**
==== Blue Morpho Butterfly http:[[www.flickr.com/photos/lionoche/212824512/]]====

Ant-Eater
Stilt Roots buttress Roots Herbs Moss Fungi Palm Liana Fern Epiphyte Passion flower Orchid mantis teak heliconia
 * rainforest plants**
 * rafflesia**

The Rafflesia is a keystone plant of the rainforest because it eats flies, if it didn't then there would be too many flies and they would take over the homes and eat food of other animals which are prey for other animals, which would mean the rainforest would die.
 * The Rafflesia**

This rafflesia is opened and stinking to get some insects to eat. =__The Jaguar__= The jaguar is a keystone animal for the rainforest because it helps balance the number of animals it eats, like bats. if there would be no jaguars then there would be too many bats, and they would take up the homes of other animals which would die, and if they took up the homes of animals that are prey for other keystone predators, the other keystone predators would die, and the rainforest would be invaded.Jaguars also for example eat birds. If there would be no jaguars, then there would be too many birds that would take over the rainforest. If you take the jaguar out of the rainforest biome, then a lot of it's prey would take up homes and food of other animals. Unfortunately, jaguars are killed for fur. Did you ever see a rich lady wearing jaguars' fur? Or maybe you were in a shop with furs? if you were, you probably saw jaguars' fur. Help save the jaguar!

This jaguar is roaring to make the other jaguar/predator scared.

[[image:http://www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/image-files/jaguarconservation.jpg width="327" height="220" caption="http://www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/image-files/jaguarconservation.jpg"]]
This jaguar is resting. He's having a nap after a feast.

= = =__Spider monkey__= A spider monkey is a key stone animal because it eats insects and fruit.If there wouldn't be spider monkeys there would be to much fruit growing and to much insects eating the food of other animals and taking over their homes. There wouldn't be enough place for homes for other animals.It is called a spider monkey because it moves like a spider and it is a monkey so it is spider monkey.

[] This spider monkey is calling her friends. [] This is an example of a food chain in a tropical rainforest. Primary Producers of this food chain This is a map of rainforests in the southern America. This is a map of all rainforests in the world. The rainforests are shown in green.

**Help Save The Rainforest!**

 * Plant trees, ask your friends to help and make the world a better place!!** Ask your teachers to make a play and collect money for the tropical rainforest. Rainforests provide a lot of medicine we use today. And they also provide **chocolate, rubber, bananas, tea, coffee and silk**. Do you want to keep warm (with silk)? do you want to keep erasing mistakes (rubber)? do you want to eat yummy chocolate? do you want to keep drinking warm tea on freezing winter nights? do you want your teachers to teach you wide awake (coffee)?and, trees from the rainforest provide oxygen and carbon dioxide. want to live and breathe...