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Tropical Rain Forest - Coggle Diagram
Tropical Rain Forest
unique characteristics
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four layers: emergent, canopy, understory, and forest floor.
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Climate
2,000 to 10,000 millimeters (79 to 394 inches) of rain per year.
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Biotic factors
animals
Capybara
They are semi-aquatic and will spend most of their time in dense vegetation around rivers, lakes, ponds, marshes and swamps.
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sloths
They move through the canopy at a rate of about 40 yards per day, munching on leaves, twigs and buds. Sloths have an exceptionally low metabolic rate and spend 15 to 20 hours per day sleeping.
Plants
Ferns,
They grow on the trunks and limbs of trees but unlike parasitic plants such as mistletoe, do not steal nutrients from their host tree.
Banana Trees
They grow on the trunks and limbs of trees but unlike parasitic plants such as mistletoe, do not steal nutrients from their host tree.
Orchids
they produce tiny seeds (measured in microns) that number in the hundreds of thousands. The balloon-like seed coat coupled with the small seed size enables orchid seeds to be dispersed over great areas by wind currents.
location examples
between the latitudes of 23.5°N (the Tropic of Cancer) and 23.5°S (the Tropic of Capricorn)—the tropics.
Daintree Rainforest, Australia
Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
Amazon Rainforest, South America