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| Tropic of Cancer | 23.5 degrees North latitude. |
| Equator | 0 degrees |
| Tropic of Capricorn | 23.5 degrees South latitude . |
| "Tropics" | 3,000 mile wide band, known as? |
| Tropical Rainforest | Located in a band around the equator. |
| Brazil | Contains the largest amount of rainforest. |
| Central America | Has the largest decline of rainforest. |
| Zaire | Holds the largest area of rainforest in Africa. |
| Rainforest are alive with? | Monkeys, tapir, boars, iguana, fish, alligators, and birds of every imaginable color and song. |
| Howler monkey | Their call can be heard three miles away. |
| Gliding tree frog | Have large suction-like pads on their feet which allows them to grip tree branches and plant stems very firmly. |
| Bengal tiger | Jaw is extremely powerful and they have the strength of over 10 men. |
| Emergent tree | The tallest trees, towering as much as 200 feet above the forest. |
| Gongora Orchid | grows on the trunks and branches |
| Strangler figs | Growing around a host tree and eventually “squeezing” it to death. |
| Ironwood | Tree is supported largely by buttresses roots, which extend 16 feet up the trunk of the tree. |
| Canopy layer | extends beneath the emergents, rising to 150 feet. |
| Understory | This area gets only 2-5% of the sunlight available to the canopy. |
| photosynthesis | process of breaking down C02 in to O2 |
| Mrs. Anglin | Best Science teacher ever!! |
