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**Directions:**
==**Please use the following readings to write ten facts on the rain forest. I would like facts that pertain to the following categories: medicine,** inhabitants of the rain forest (plants or animals), products produced from the rain forest and people that live or work in the rain forest including cultures and tradition.==

**How does the destruction or abuse of the rain forest affect animals, plants or people?**

 * Use the following resources: The Great Kapok Tree (pg 364-377) and the three short stories. Please include pictures or videos in your findings.**


 * We destroy about 1.5 acres of rain forest every second- thats the size of a football field! We should try to save rain forests because they produce oxygen, which we need.Things we need such as chocolate, mahogany, medicines for cancer, and other products come from the rain forest. More than half of the world's species of plants, animals, and insects live in the rain forests.Tropical rain forests can receive between 160 and 300 inches of rain a year.**




 * The rain forest stays at a steamy 75 degrees F- 80 degrees F a year because they are near the equator. There are four layers to the rain forest - emergent trees, the canopy, the understory, and the forest floor.Emergent trees are really tall-up to 180 ft. tall! Young trees, shrubs, and vines grow in the understory.Most animals live in the canopy because the most sunlight is there.**