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Hi, and welcome to Gabi D. and Donia's G.'s Tropical Rain Forest Home Page Donia G. Where can you find these Tropical Rain Forests? A place you can find this biome is the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest. The Amazon is home to the greatest variety of plants and animals on Earth. The second largest rainforest is in Africa. To the south east, the large island of madagascar was once intensively forested, but now much of it is gone

= Climate: = Only the rainforests that are located in the tropics, or ten degrees within the equater have year-round warm weather, but there is a little difference between the warmest and coolest months. The total rainfall for the year is between 150 and 250 cm. a year. The rainforest is never completely dry. It rains nearly every day. The temperature during the day is around 30 degrees celsius to 35 degrees celsius. At night the tempurature drops to 20 degrees Celsius to 25 degrees Celsius. It's always very humid there. This type of climate is known as the equatorial climate. The Tropical Rainforest has two seasons; Two rainy seasons, and roughly two dry months.

Not all the rainforest around the world are exactly the same. Some differences bewteen the Amazon and the African rainforest are, The amazon rain forest recvives about 9 feet of rain a year. Between June and﻿ October the water level rises by 30 to 45 feet. Over 500 mammals, 175 lizards and over 300 other reptiles species, and one third of the world's birds live in Amazon. The average monthly rainfall in nearly the whole region remains under 100 mm throughout the year in the African rainforest. The African rainforest has lots of animal life different from the Amazon such as African forest elephants, the black colobus monkey and the pygmy hippopotamus are all animals of the African rainforest. Those are some differences between the African and Amazon rain forest.

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