1. TROPICAL RAINFOREST BIOMES Layla, Lauren, Emma, and Ben

2. This is a power point all about the Amazon Rainforest for our biome. The four major roles of studies in the Amazon are: Zoologist Botanist Geographer Meteorologist Each of us will present our own slides: what we did for our sites and everything else. Please ask any questions at the end. Tell us what you think too. We also linked our resources for pictures and sites. We all hope you like our Power Point! INTRODUCTION

3. ZOOLOGIST Animals of the Amazon Include: Tigers, Leopards, Tocans, Monkeys, Orangatangs, fungi, piranhas, even frogs! Glogster: omnivores, carnivores, herbivores, abiotic factors, and biotic factors. Special Adaptations Strengths help them live where they do: Example: a crocodile can live in the cold rivers because it has scales to protect it from other water predators and humans.

4. ZOOLOGIST Biotic Factors: Living things such as animals and living food that the organism consumes Abiotic Factors: Nonliving things such as rain, air, sunlight, sound

5. ZOOLOGIST Food Chains

6. METEOROLOGIST My job as a meteorologist is to detect weather patterns or and record the climate. My group and I are doing the Tropical Rainforest Biome. It rains a lot in the Tropical Rainforest and it is my job to record it so I hope you learn a lot from my slide. The yearly rain fall of the Amazon Jungle is 9 feet. Fifty percent of this rain fall returns to the air in the form of evaporation. The down pour there is fast and hard, it can rain as much as 2 inches a hour. In rain forests such as the Amazon rainforest it rains there much more then any other place on earth. The beginning of the rainy season begins with a flourish. First it just lightings and then a few days later it starts to rain. The Amazon often floods but the trees need this water because, this is the time when the trees start to grow.

7. METEOROLOGIST The average temperature in the Amazon Jungle is about 70-85 degrees Fahrenheit and it rarely is higher then 93 degrees Fahrenheit, also it very rarely drops to 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The humidity level is about 77% to 88% year round. It is so warm there because the Amazon is near the equator, that is mostly where the rainforests of the world are because the equator is constantly close to the sun. While as we in the Midwest are not always faced directly at the sun, so we are not as warm all the time. It is so warm in the Amazon that when the day changes to night the temperature stays the same even though the rainforest is not exposed to light. Even the 3 warmest months and the 3 coldest months do not differ in temperature more the 5 degrees! The rainforests of the world help maintain global weather patterns and precipitation patterns. They do this because it is wet there because of the Amazon River and it is sunny there because the sun is always close by, so with these two variables it evaporates there a lot and thus comes down as rain in other part of the world that do not have as much rain. When it’s raining out the rain could be coming from the Amazon River, you never know though.

8. GEOGRAPHER This is my Prezi with all the information: http://prezi.com/gec73xk8trtm/biomes-of-the-world- geography/

9. BOTANIST My job is a Botanist, I see what the soil, climate, and plant life is in this biome. This time my group and I are studying the Tropical rain forest. The other Jobs are the zoologist, meteorologist, and the geographer. We all have a important job so I have to do my job right and get the right facts. I hope you learn a lot and like my PowerPoint page. 10 plants what are in the rain forest are orchids, bromeliads, vines (lianas), mosses, Jacaranda, Angel Trumpet tree, Clavillia, Suma, Curare and Cocoa tree. The Jacaranda has lots of the floods that replaced by drought make the trees shed their leaves and the air shimmers in the heat. It looks like the winter with all the trees having lost their leaves, but in fact some trees don’t lose their leaves, they find this time best to bloom. The climate in the Amazonian rainforest is warm and humid and the average temperature in the area is about 79 degree Fahrenheit. The warmest it ever been is.

10. BOTANIST The ten plants what are orchids, bromeliads, vines (lianas), mosses, Jacaranda, Angel Trumpet tree, Clavillia, Suma, Curare and Cocoa tree. Orchids need water, sunlight, and they get food by perspiration. Bromeliads eat bugs, mosquito larva, frogs, toads and they store a lot of water. Lianas use photosynthesis to make their own food from sunlight and they need sunlight, and water. Moss uses photosynthesis to create its one and water. Jacaranda’s are very unique tree. The Jacaranda tree grows when all the plants die. The Jacaranda tree needs cold weather and water for it to live. The angel trumpet tree is very toxic and caused many deaths to people and animal. The angel trumpet tree needs water, sunlight but not to hot, and fresh nutrient soil. A Clavillia is a perennial herb used to kill viruses fungi and bacteria. The Clavillia has many active compounds like protein. To live it needs shad, sunlight, water, and fresh soil. The suma plant is used for sickness some of them are cancer, diabetes, and stress. To live, this amazing plant needs water, sunlight and nutrition soil. The Curare leaf is mainly toxin. Ampi, Woorari, Woorara, Woorali, Wourali, Wouralia, Ourare, Ourari, Urare, Urari, and Uirary, but it is mostly known as a Curare. In South America it was used for poison on a arrow head. To live this leaf needs water, sunlight and shad. The cocoa tree is very interesting tree, I will tell you were you can grow them and the best place to grow it. Farmers grow cocoa trees on small farms in hot, rainy environments, mostly in areas near the equator. For this amazing tree to live it needs to be in a shady area with cold and hot weather.

11. RECOURSES We Got our information from these references: http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/amazon.htm The Concise Nature Encyclopedia By: David Burnie http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/forests.php http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm http://answers.askkids.com/Weird_Science/why_is_the_equator_so _hot http://www.worldcocoafoundation.org/learn-about-cocoa/tree-to- table/growing.asp