Kathryn

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

**How does the destruction or abuse of the rainforest affect animals, plants or people?**
** 1.T Amazon rain forest is always hot,and in that heat everything grows,and grows. ** **2 The plants and animals that live in these forests lose their food and shelter.** **3 Without sunlight the plants growing on the forest floor fade to a bleached green and die.** **4 Amazon rain forest provides 20% of the worlds oxygen.** 5 Half of the world's species of plants,animals and insects live in the rain forests. 6 Many medicines also come from the rain forests, including 25% the ingredients in today's cancer drugs. 7 Emergent trees and the canopy are the very top layers of the rain forest. 8 Oil fuels most cars,trucks,buses,boats,trains and planes. 9 The kapok tree is home to many birds and animals. 10 The introduction to plant medicines,some 70-80% of the world's people depend at least in part on he
 * Use the following resources: The Great Kapok Tree (pg 364-377) and the three short stories. Please include pictures or videos in or videos in your findings.**