TROPICAL RAINFOREST ANIMALS

Coluga/Flying Lemur and baby


Emperor Tamerin


Kinkajou


Blue Bird of Paradise

FOOD CHAINS and FOOD WEBS

Animals have to eat each other for energy. Check out the food web and food chain. This is an example of how energy travels through animals.

LANDFORMS in the TROPICAL RAINFORESTS

Amazon Basin
Brazilian Highlands
Guiana Highlands
Volcanoes

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

What pollution happens in the rainforests? There are a few things that can cause pollution in the Tropical Rainforest. These include oil spills, toxic by-products, mining accidents, air pollution, water pollution, and acid rain. This is very dangerous. If we are not careful, we will loose the things that give us air and life.

ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION

Trees are being cut down for paper and other things. They are also being burned down for farming. In order to help, use recycled items and practice recycling. We really need to help protect the rainforests because if we don't, we will lose the lungs of the planet.

SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS

Red-Crab Spider and Pitcher Plant
Type of Symbiosis: Parasitism
Red-Crab Spider steals the pitcher plant's food when caught.

Trees and Liana Vines
Type of Symbiosis: Commensalism
Liana vines grow on trees to reach the sun.

ANIMAL and PLANT ADAPTATIONS

1. Some plants have become carnivorous because there isn't enough sunlight.
2. Animals live in trees to stay away from predators on the forest floor.
3. Camouflage helps animals hide from predators.
4. Monkeys use their tails to hold on to the trees so that they don't fall.
5. Some frogs are poisonous so they can protect themselves.
6. Pangolins have hard shells so all they have to do is roll up in a ball and the predator can't get them.
7. Leopards can climb trees to get to their food.