GEORGRAPHY - Rainforests

TROPICAL RAINFOREST:

LOCATION:

• 5°North and South of the equator
• Amazon rainforest in Brazil is the main one
• western part of Africa(southern Nigeria, Congo)
  south east Asia(indonesia)
  north east Australia(state of Queensland)

CLIMATE:

• HIGH TEMPERATURE ALL YEAR ROUND (27 °C AVERAGE)
• SMALL TEMPERATURE RANGE (2°C)
• HIGH RAINFALL (2000mm) IN A YEAR
• HIGH HUMIDITY RESULTING IN CONVECTIONAL RAINFALL.
   

VEGETATION:

•  DIVIDED INTO FIVE LAYERS:
  
  
  • EMERGENT LAYER (TREES UP TO 50m TALL)
  • CANOPY
  • UNDER CANOPY
  • SHRUBS LAYER
  • FOREST FLOOR (WITH FERNS) 

Tropical Rainforests

· Grow in places that have an equatorial climate.

· Tropical rainforests are the most luxuriant vegetation systems.

· Over 1/3 of the world’s trees grow in tropical rainforests.

· Rainforest has an…