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Page 1: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

Bilals AMAZING fact Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layersabout rainforest layers

Page 2: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

IntroductionIntroduction

Rain forests are hot, Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. wet and very dry. There There

Are 4 layers in a rain Are 4 layers in a rain forest . The biggest forest . The biggest rainforest is part of rainforest is part of brazil Peru and many brazil Peru and many more. There are main more. There are main animals living in each animals living in each layer. To find more layer. To find more about the layers about the layers continue reading.continue reading.

Page 3: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

ContentsContents

Page 1 introductionPage 1 introduction

Page 2 forest floorPage 2 forest floor

Page 3 under story Page 3 under story

Page 4 canopyPage 4 canopy

Page 5 emergent layerPage 5 emergent layer

Page 4: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

Forest floorForest floor

In this layer lives ants In this layer lives ants spiders ladybird . In spiders ladybird . In this layer it is very this layer it is very stinky and muddy. stinky and muddy. Over 750 of species of Over 750 of species of animals live in this animals live in this stinky layer. It is full stinky layer. It is full of dead leaves twigs. of dead leaves twigs. The forest floor is The forest floor is approximately 5 foot approximately 5 foot in the air. It is in the air. It is estimated that hardy estimated that hardy 2 percent of the 2 percent of the sunlight reaches the sunlight reaches the forest floorforest floor

Page 5: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

UnderstoryUnderstory

The understory is The understory is hot and damp and hot and damp and the air is very still. the air is very still. The leaves and The leaves and plants hardly ever plants hardly ever even grow 12 feet even grow 12 feet but most of the but most of the plants are about plants are about maybe 4 or 6 foot . maybe 4 or 6 foot . U cant find any U cant find any sunlight in the sunlight in the understory layerunderstory layer

Page 6: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

Canopy LAYERCanopy LAYER

Most trees in the layer Most trees in the layer are this height. This are this height. This layer is over 100 feet layer is over 100 feet tall. Monkey birds tall. Monkey birds lizards and snakes live lizards and snakes live here . This layer is here . This layer is mostly the hottest and mostly the hottest and dry layer of all the dry layer of all the layers.layers.

Much of the rain is Much of the rain is stopped by thick stopped by thick foliage. Most of the foliage. Most of the biggest grow biggest grow

up to the canopy layerup to the canopy layer

Page 7: Bilals AMAZING fact about rainforest layers. Introduction Rain forests are hot, wet and very dry. There Are 4 layers in a rain forest. The biggest rainforest

Emergent layerEmergent layerIn the emergent layer there In the emergent layer there lives monkeys bats birds lives monkeys bats birds and butterflies . These and butterflies . These animals live there because animals live there because it is hot and they like hot it is hot and they like hot places. The tallest trees can places. The tallest trees can only be in the emergent only be in the emergent layer if they are 200 FOOT layer if they are 200 FOOT

of the ground. Most of the of the ground. Most of the trunks in the trunks in the

emergent layer grow to 16 emergent layer grow to 16 foot that is like the width foot that is like the width of a bus. There is lots and of a bus. There is lots and lots oflots of

hotness and sunlight in the hotness and sunlight in the emergent layeremergent layer