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Biome: Tropical Rainforest Mayra Pablo Tropical Rainforest Geographical Areas: Central America in the Amazon river basin. Africa - Zaire basin, with a small area in West Africa; also eastern Madagascar. Indo-Malaysia - west coast of India, Assam, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Queensla...

Biome: Tropical Rainforest Mayra Pablo Tropical Rainforest Geographical Areas: Central America in the Amazon river basin. Africa - Zaire basin, with a small area in West Africa; also eastern Madagascar. Indo-Malaysia - west coast of India, Assam, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Queensland, Australia. Tropical Rainforest Geographical Description- Dense canopies of vegetation that form three different layers: 1. Emergent trees are spaced wide apart, and are 100 to 240 feet tall with umbrella shaped canopies that grow above the forest. 2. The upper canopy of 60 to 130 foot trees allows light to be easily available at the top of this layer, but greatly reduced any light below it. 3. The understory, or lower canopy, consists of 60 foot trees. This layer is made up of the trunks of canopy trees, shrubs, plants and small trees. 4. The forest floor is usually completely shaded, except where a canopy tree has fallen and created an opening. Most areas of the forest floor receive so little light that few bushes or herbs can grow there. Landforms: Tropical landforms include mountain ranges, islands, coral reefs, river valleys, deserts, coastal features, and karstic landscapes. Mountains: The highest Tropical Rainforest mountain is the Pica da Neblina located in the Amazon Rainforest. Karst landscape: Tehuacan stone snakes (tecuates) found in North America, Mexico, Puebla, along several streets in Tehuacán, also in El Riego Park Rivers: South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and second-longest river system in the world called the Amazon River  2,000 to 10,000 millimeters (79 to 394 inches) of rain per year. Mean temperatures in tropical Climate and features- rainforest regions: between 68 and 84 °F, and in no month is the mean temperature below There is usually a season of less 64 °F. The wet tropics temperatures fall by about 0.9 rain: monsoonal areas, a dry season. °F for every 100 meters (328 feet) climbed. Abiotic and Biotic Factors: Abiotic: humidity, soil composition, temperature, Biotic: Buttress roots - large roots have ridges and sunlight. which create a large surface area that help to support large trees. Animals: camouflage tactics of jaguars and Ferns- plant which is a Epiphytes, which live on walking sticks, to the toxic skin of poison dart the branches of trees high up in the canopy. They frogs, Squirrel monkey’s rotating shoulders that get their nutrients from the air and water, not make it easy to grasp onto branches as well as a from the soil. prehensile tail that can grab objects. Maiden's blush - have leaves with pointy tips. Plants rely on decomposers to recycle nutrients This allows water to run off the leaves quickly as well as the sun to photosynthesize, while without damaging or breaking them. decomposers rely on plants for their food source. Animals contribute to the cycle by consuming plants and returning nutrients to the soil. Jaguar Squirrel monkey Maiden’s Blush Fern Poison Dart Frog Buttress Roots Food Web- The sun helps with Photosynthesis for the producers, which are primarily green plants, as well as water from the rain and nutritious soil to help it grow. Herbivores such as the agouti and tapirs feed on these plants. Higher up in the food chain, secondary consumers such as boa constrictors, feed on these herbivores and gain energy. High-trophic-level carnivores like jaguars, crocodiles, and species of large birds of prey eat these carnivores and omnivores. Once organisms at any level in the food chain die, decomposers and scavengers including bacteria, fungi, and toucans break them down and recycle nutrients into the ecosystem.  Nonrenewable: minerals like gold and copper, as well as cattle and hydroelectric energy. Natural Some ways humans use the renewable and nonrenewable is by eating the Avocado and Guava, they Resources: use trees to build houses and other materials, oil to make for frying Renewable: Avocado. Guava. Trees. dishes, oxygen to help breathe as it Plants (Some give cures to diseases) is free. Nonrenewable such as gold is Animals. Passion Fruits. Oil (from simply used as a fashion sense while trees). Oxygen copper is used electrical equipment such as wiring and motors, and has uses for construction. Environmental Changes (Threats)- Increased average temperatures in all seasons. more hot days and warm spells with a substantial increase in the temperature reached on hot days. more frequent and intense storms. changes to the cloud base, mist availability, humidity or rainfall. Which is causing more shortage on plants=less food for herbivores as they slowly decline=less prey for carnivores as they also grew fewer in numbers. They could help with getting rid of invasive species, growing more native plants, as well as help with th regrowth of the animal population And stabilizing it again. Resources: https://tilapiale.weebly.com/landforms.html http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm https://www.wondermondo.com/karst-landscapes/