Climate
- Tropical forests are home to more than half of all species on Earth
- Pristine jungles are burned and cleared for farming and ranching, or for plantations to produce bio fuel
- Forests also are important ecosystems in the balance of nature
- In an average year in a tropical rain forest, the climate is very humid because of all the rainfall, which amounts to about 250 cm per year
- The sun warms the land and sea and the water evaporates into the air.
- The average temperature of a rain forest is about 77° Fahrenheit
- The temperature never drops below 64° Fahrenheit.
- The plants that make up the understory of a rainforest have adapted to the small amount of sunlight that they receive