Aruzhan

**[[image:macaw width="182" height="175"]]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 rainforest** **Did you now about every second 1.5 acres of rain forests are destroyed.That is as big as a full foot ball feild.Tropical rain forests can recieve between 160 and 300 inches of rain each year.Tropical rain forests are located near the equater.Almost everything that falls to the forest floor is reused.Chocalate and chewing gum are from the rain forest.One-fifth of the worlds fresh water is in the Amazon rain forest.Did you know the rainforest has been refered to the lungs of the world.**

**The plants of the rain forests may hold the cure for many diseases.Many medicines also come from the rain forests,including 25% of the ingredients in todays cancer drugs do.Scientists have only tested 1% of rain forests cure cancer and diecess.the plants that that cure illnesea and disess are the coca tree can help fevers,fatique,,coughs,burnsThe Yanomami is one of the largest groups of American people in south America is the Yanomami.Their village life is centered around the yano is a large circular building constucted of vine and leafs thatch, wich has a living space in the middle.The forests**