1. Climate On Earth

2. What are the Climatic Regions of the Earth? Do you know? The Climatic Regions

3. On the basis of the climatic zones there are four major regions in the world- The Four Major Climatic Regions The Desert Region The Tundra Region The Temperate Grassland Region The Tropical and Equatorial Region

4. Come let’s now see where these regions are located and what they consist of. Let’s start with THE EQUATORIAL REGION. Where is this region located?

5. The Equatorial Region of the world is located 0 º to10 º north and south of the Equator, that is, in the Tropical or the Torrid Zone.

6. It has a hot and wet climate throughout the year. The high temperature and heavy rainfall throughout the year produced abundant growth of trees specially in two parts of the world – in North of South America and the Central parts of Africa. In South America, the Amazon rainforest is known as the SELVAS In Africa the rain forest is known as the CONGO RAIN FOREST

7. Did you know these forests have got a specialty that no other forests in the world have?

8. Only these forests in the world have four distinct layers.

10. There are different types of animals seen in these forests, namely different varieties of monkeys …..

11. The Squirrel monkeys

12. The squirrel monkey

13. The Lemur

14. Baboons

15. SPIDER MONKEYS

16. Chimpanzees

18. Gorillas

20. Hippopotamuses

22. Pygmy Hippo

23. Snakes A deadly Amazon Eyelash Pit Viper

24. Viper

25. A green viper shows off its fangs

26. Boa Constrictor

28. A Rainbow Boa

29. BUSH MASTER the largest of all vipers and the longest venomous snake in the western hemisphere

30. Different types of birds are also seen here Macaw

32. A humming bird

33. The Hoatzin

34. Red Egrets

35. A variety of insects like the tree lizards are seen in these forests

37. And butterflies