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**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?**

 * Use the following resources: The Great Kapok Tree (pg 364-377) and the three short stories.**

The bottom of the rain forest is called the understory. The animals that live in the understory like darkness. All kinds of animals live in the rain forest just like the spider monkey. You may not notice that if you cut down a tree you are really cutting down an animals habitat. People from the Yanomamo tribe live in rain forests. The Amazon rain forest provides 20% of the world's oxygen. Many medicines also come from the rain forests, including 25% of the ingredient in today's cancer drugs. i