Tropical+Rain+Forest

Lauren H, Nick L

Our biome is the tropical rainforest. The tropical rainforest is usually found near oceans or big bodies of water creating the misty environments. The life forms that live there don't usually need as much water as other organisms due to the moisture around them. A lot of the animals that live there can get food from plants. For example, the koala bear takes its food from the eucalyptus trees. The Genus for koala bear is Phascolarctus. The speices is cinerius. The Genus for eucalyptus trees is actually eucalyptus. There are over 700 species for eucalyptus trees.

Many plants exist in the topical rainforest, making it easy for herbivores to live. Since there are so many herbivores in the tropical rainforest, it attracts more carnivores to feed on them. The tropical rainforest has more self-pollenating plants because the canopy doesnt allow enough sunlight for photosynthesis.

E. coli is a bacterium most cmmonly found in the lower intestine of a warm-blooded animals. Some can swim around with their flagellums although others lack flagellums. This commonly found bacterium was discovered in 1885 by a German pediatrician and bacteriaoligist Theodor Escherich.The Genus for E. coli is Escherichia, the species is E. coli.

Our protist introdution is an algae. The common name of this algae is unknown. The Genus is Chlorococcum. The species is meneghini.

The Genus for bracket fungi is Ganoderm. The species is lucidum. bracket fungi grows on trees. It is a example of parasitism for the fungi infects and breaks down the tree often killing it.

Our biome has two seasons. Wet and dry season, and wet season. The air is almost always humid. As you read in the first paragraph, the air is also very misty and moist. The tropical rain forest has an average rainfall of about 50-260 inches per year. The temperature of the rainforest rarely gets higher than 93 degrees fahrenheit or rarely drops below 68 degrees fahenheit.The average humidity is between 77-88%. With all of the moisture and plants, the tropical rainforest creates 40% of the world's oxygen.





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