The document summarizes key aspects of the tropical rainforest ecosystem, including climate, location, plants, and animals. The climate is hot and humid with high rainfall. Tropical rainforests are located near the equator. Common plants discussed are bromeliads and orchids, while example animals mentioned are pink river dolphins and howler monkeys. A predator-prey relationship between golden dorada fish and giant armadillos is also briefly described.

2. Climate In the Tropical Rainforest! Hot or cold ? Crazy question right ? of course the climates hot in the tropical rainforest! Did you know that the tropical rainforest produce more then 40% of earths oxygen! The tropical rainforest is found near the equator, The temperature rarely gets higher then 93 degrees fahrenheit or drops below 68 degrees fahrenheit. Usually in the rainforest climate is very humid! The average humidity is between 77 and 88 %. Don’t forget the rain in rainforest, It does rain there very often It rains more then 90 days a year there, but luckily the sun is shinning through the storms. The tropical rainforest has an average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm) of rainfall yearly! Where are Tropical Rainforest? Tropical rainforest can be found in South and Central America, Africa, Islands around Australia, and Asia.

3. Plants Bromeliads; Bromeliads are found in the tropical rainforest, they’re related to the pineapple family. They are thick, waxy leaves form a bowl shape in the middle to catch water. Some bromeliads can hold several gallons of water! They also provide homes for several creatures including, Frogs, tadpoles salamanders, snails, beetles and mosquito larvae, Tropical orchids; There are 20,000 known species and they’re mostly found in moist tropical regions. Temperate orchids usually grow in soil but tropical orchids are more often epiphytes which grow non parasitically on trees. They vary considerably in shape, color and size. A common pattern is three petals and three petal like sepals, the lower petal has a very distinctive appearance

4. Animals Pink River Dolphin; Pink River Dolphins are grey and turn pink with age. They turn pink because there skin becomes translucent allowing the blood to show through. When they get really excited they’re skin will flush to a bright pink! Only temporarily though. They have long powerful beaks, small eyes and can move their heads 180 degrees around their body. Pink river Dolphins are slow swimmers they have small hairs on there snout that help them find food in muddy marshes. Pink river dolphins can reach up to ten feet long and two hundred pounds and are extremely flexible. They have molar like teeth to chew their prey. They also hunt alone They eat crabs, catfish, and small fresh water fish. Pink river dolphins live in only fresh water never entering salt water, Howler Monkeys Howler monkeys are the loudest land animal, they can be heard up to three miles (4.8 km) away, They are the largest new world monkey that means from South to Central America. Howler monkeys live in high trees. They have a span life of 20 years. Adult males are black to brown, females and there babies have a lighter color on there back. They can grow to be 2 to 4 ft tall and weigh 8 to 22 pounds. They have a long tail short snout and round nostrils. Also females on have one baby at a time. Howler monkeys diets are leaves and they occasionally eat fruit and maggots. there predators are large birds such as eagles.

5. predator prey relationship A predator prey relationship is The interaction between a species that eats (predator) another species (prey). Golden Dourada - Douradas are one of the Amazon's principle predators, attacking other fishes in river channels. Unlike most catfishes, which are nocturnal bottom feeders, douradas feed day and night. The diet of giant armadillos consists of termites, ants, insects, spiders, worms, larvae, snakes and carrion. If a giant armadillo happens to stumble upon a termite mound, it wouldn't be uncommon for it to devour the entire mound. Giant Armadillo -

6. Project done by : Gabbie Vasiliades Completed Wednesday February 16th 2010 1st 2nd 3rd 4th slide where does Tuesday February 16th 2010. 5th 6th slide done Wednesday February 16th 2010. In my project I studied the tropical rain forest What I did was I gathered info and put them on paper in bullets for my final project I turned the bullets in to paragraphs, added pictures to make my final project.