Tropical rainforest Submitted by: Stefan Ryan V. Delfin Clarisse joy de Guzman Marsha Nakaerts Submitted to: Sir Henry Calilung

OUTLINE I.Tropical rainforest characteristics II.Tropical rain forest strata III.Importance of Tropical rainforest IV.References V.Quiz

Tropical rainforest very dense, warm, wet forest This is the earth’s complex biome large forest biome located in the Earth’s equatorial zone Are the predominant natural Vegetation throughout the wet topics Characteristics

almost always raining in a tropical rainforest get over 80 inch. (2 m) of rain each year the soil is only about 3-4 inches thick and is ancient soil is richer in nutrients Characteristics (continued)

Philippines South America Africa Southern Asia

Emergents, Canopy, Understory, and the forest floor Strata of the Rainforest Starting at the top, the strata are:

covers about 7% of the Earth’s surface and are VERY important to the Earth’s ecosystem recycle and cleans water trees and plants also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere affects the greenhouse effect people eat the food that the forest produces some plants in the rain forest can cure illnesses The Importance of Rainforests

References: Biblio cards /biomes/rainforest/rainfrst.html Microsoft Encarta premium suite 2005

Quiz 1) What biome did we reported on? 2) Where does a tropical rain forest is found? 3) Give one characteristics for tropical rain forest. 4) What are the 5) four layers 6) of the tropical 7) rain forest 8) Give two importance 9) of the tropical rain 10) forest