William 11

Hi Everyone,
Here is a quick picture I drew showing all the different layers of the rainforest.
From William.

Mitchell 4

This top picture represents that trees are the lungs of earth, and that we are destroying them.



The Amazon Rainforest (also known as Amazonia) is the biggest rainforest in the world. It is nicked named “The lungs of Earth”, because it produces about 20% of Earth’s oxygen. The vegetation turns carbon dioxide into oxygen.
The Amazon Rainforest is found in South America, in 8 different countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
About half of the planet’s remaining tropical rainforests are found in the Amazon.

Tania 8

Hi Everyone.
Mangroves are shoreline plants, and thus are often (except on fringing reefs) quite distant from the main biomass of hard corals that form the massive reef crest and fore reef. However, when present these plants have the capacity to contribute a good deal to coral reef ecosystem productivity and biological diversity by providing food and shelter for a variety of other forms of marine plant and animal life.

In the Caribbean region, research has demonstrated that these plants have a strong influence on nearby coral reef fish community structure.

When associated with adult habitat such as seagrass meadows or coral reefs, they substantially increase the biomass of some commercially valuable species.

The complex prop root system serves as a nursery habitat that increases the survival rates of young reef fish, as well as a substrate to which all manner of algae, sponges, and other invertebrate coral reef animals may attach.

Falling leaves and nesting birds add nutrients to the water below, thereby enhancing opportunities for the growth of other nearby marine life.

Tania 7

Hi Everyone
Coral reefs are found in all the oceans that have parts in the tropics. These are the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.

The Indo-Pacific Region

This includes much of the Central and South Pacific Ocean as far north as Hawaii and southern Japan and as far south as Taiwan and coastal regions of Southeast Asia, Philippines, northern New Zealand and most of Australia’s coast. Eastern regions include Indonesia, most of the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa and the Red Sea.

The Greater Caribbean Region

This includes the Caribbean Sea, Bahamas, south Florida, north-eastern coast of South America to the Amazon and Orinoco River.

Smaller areas of coral reefs occur in the eastern Pacific, tropical eastern Atlantic, off Western Australia, along the east coast of southern Brazil, off southern Japan and around the island of Bermuda in the western Atlantic.

Cheers Tania

Tom 13

HI Everyone
Here is a website about Bengal Tiger if you go on to the site it has a Bengal Tigers roar
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/bengal-tiger/

William 10

Hi Everyone,
Here is my introduction of what is a rain forest.
What is a rainforest? A rainforest is a forest that receives very heavy annual rainfall. The average amount of rainfall is between 68 to 78 inches. In a rainforest there are 5 layers called the forest floor, shrub layer, under story, canopy and the emergent layer. On the forest floor it is dark. Most plants on the forest floor cannot get enough light to perform photosynthesis, which is how plants make food out of water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. The understory is between ten to fifteen meters high. Many birds and snakes lives in the understory. Flowers in the understory are brightly colored to attract animals through the darkness. The next layer is the canopy. The canopy is about 20 to 30 meters off the ground. The canopy has the most abundant life of any of the layers. Animals like amphibians, birds, bats and insects live in the canopy, many of those animals have never seen the forest floor. Finally the tallest layer is called the emergent trees. These tress are between 35 and 70 meters off the ground. These are the trees you would see if you were in a plane. The emergent layer is also a home to some of the birds found in the canopy.
From William

max 9

Tom here is your answers
1.from 5 feet to over 25 feet
2.from 10 t0 30 years
3.they can grow up a tree or along a rock/ledge
4.i think vines can go from 1 inch to about 4