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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. Please include pictures or videos in your findings.**

The tapir, scarlet macaw, and giant anteater are all endangered species who live in the rain forests. Many Animals rely on trees for food or shelter. The Amazon rain forest provides 20 percent of the world's oxygen. Rain forests are a huge source of food. Many animals like the cock-of-the-rock, ocelot, and many other animals live in the rain forest. The Amazon rain forest is made up of 2 million square miles of land. In a rain forest it is very wet because rain forests get about 160 to 300 inches of rain a year. Tropical rain forests stay from 75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The Amazon rain forest stretches into eight different countries. Rain forests are home to 30 million species of animals and plants. That's two thirds of the Earth's plants. The emergent layer of the rain forest has trees 225 feet tall. The trees in the rain forest act like anchors because they provent erosion.
 * The destruction of rain forest is horrible. We lose about 1.5 acres of a rain forest a second. Most medicines and chocolate and chewing gum come from the rain forest. The Yanomamo tribe of Indians live in the rain forest. Scientist ****s think that rain forests will be gone in 40 to 50 years . More than half of the world's species of plants, animals, and insects liv****e in the rain forests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon rain forest. If trees in the rain forest go away there, there will be no oxygen in that area. A rain forest is like a layer cake, on the bottom is the forest floor then the unde****rstory then** **the canopy and finally t****he emergent layer.**[[image:louie width="645" height="200"]]