Tropical Rainforest

Basic information

Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in

areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is
no dry season – all months have an
average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may
also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen
rainforest. True rainforests are typically found
between 10 degrees north and south of
the equator (see map); they are a sub-set of
the tropical forest biome that occurs roughly within
the 28-degree latitudes (in the equatorial zone
between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of
Capricorn). Within the World Wildlife Fund's biome
classification, tropical rainforests are a type
of tropical moist broadleaf forest (or tropical wet
forest) that also includes the more extensive seasonal
tropical forests.
Animals

Rainforests are populated with insects (like

butterflies and beetles), arachnids (like
spiders and ticks), worms, reptiles (like
snakes and lizards), amphibians
(like frogs and toads), birds (like parrots and
toucans)
and mammals (like sloths and jaguars).
Different animals live in different strata of
the rainforest.
Plants

 The tropical rainforest contains more species of plants than any

other biome. Orchids, Philodendrons, Ferns, Bromeliads, Kapok
Trees, Banana Trees, Rubber Trees, Bam- boo, Trees, Cassava
Trees, Avocado Trees.