100 Facts Rainforests – Bitesized Facts & Awesome Images to Support KS2 Learning

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Bengal tigers and orangutans live in Asia’s rainforests, and chimpanzees live in the rainforests of Africa. Help maintain the water cycle: The role of rainforests in the water cycle is to add water to the atmosphere through the process of transpiration (in which plants release water from their leaves during photosynthesis). Rainforests are home to thousands of animal species which are supported and sheltered by the rich plant life of the rainforest.

Fact 17: If the rainforests continue to decline in the way that they have been, then about 5-10 percent of their species will go extinct every ten years. The temperate rainforest is less sunny and gets less rainfall than its cousin — the tropical rainforest.

Parts of the Congo can be found in several other countries too, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon. Because there is so much rain in the rainforest, many plants have adapted to have big curved leaves so that the water can run off easily.

Help stabilize the world’s climate: Rainforests help stabilize the world’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.More than half of it is in Brazil, but parts are in several other South American countries, including Ecuador and Bolivia. Indigenous communities have lived in and depended on the rainforest for thousands of years, and their knowledge and practices can teach us valuable lessons about sustainable living. There are four layers in a tropical rainforest biome (Forest Floor, Understory Layer, Canopy Layer, and Emergent Layer) and there are animals that have adapted to living in each one (or more) of these layers. Information is accompanied by amazing illustrations and photographs that put unbelievable facts into context for young learners.

Fact 10: Within four square miles of tropical rainforest, you will find 1500 flowering plant species, 750 types of trees, and many of these plants can help combat cancer.This is just another example of the strange and beautiful plants and animals that live hidden in rainforests. There they can find all of their necessities and rarely have to come down to the floor of the forest.

Fact 34: Most of the tropical rainforests, approximately 57 percent, are located in developing countries.Tropical rainforests are home to the largest and the smallest, the loudest and the quietest of all land animals, as well as some of the most dangerous, most beautiful, most endearing and strangest looking animals on earth. And many commercially available anesthetics, enzymes, hormones, laxatives, cough mixtures, antibiotics, and antiseptics are also derived from rainforest plants and herbs.