ANOTHER JASMINE WRITES ABOUT RAINFORESTS

It looks like there is someone else called Jasmine who is writing about rainforests....

I've put her slides below or you can click on here to see it.

Rainforest by Jasmine from Danuta W-Piwko

MONKEYS IN THE RAINFOREST

Monkeys use their tails to swing from tree to tree.

Monkeys are very like humans and their ears are exactly the same.

There are 135 species of monkeys in the Amazon rainforest.

This video shows monkeys in Uganda hunting.

RAINFORESTS IN DANGER

This photo shows how the rainforests look when all the trees have been cut down and been made into paper.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

There are lots of things we know about the disappearing rainforests;

• Rainforests used to cover 14% of the earth but now it only covers 6% of the earth.
• One and half acres of rainforest is lost every second
• 137 different types of plants, animals and insects are lost every day
• There used to be 10 million people living in the Amazon 500 years ago, now there are only 200,000•
• More than 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest
• The Baka people in Cameroon are losing their homes because of rainforests are being cut down

RUBBER TREE

Rubber trees grow up to 40 metres .When a rubber is cut tree the sap is removed. The sap of a rubber tree is called latex and it can also be used to make balloons, Chewing gum, rubbers, washing-up gloves, car tyres and knicker-elastic!

OTHER PLANTS

There are many, many other types of plants in the rainforest such as;

• Banana trees
• Bamboo
• Sugar cane
• Orchids
• Coffee
• Water Lillies

 One other very important plant is the one and only Cacao tree. The Cacao tree grows pods containing 20 to 60 cocoa beans. When they are harvested the cocoa beans are turned into delicious chocolate.

WHERE DO PINEAPPLES GROW?

Pineapples grow on plants on the ground and not in trees where many people think they do.

A RAINFOREST IN A MASSIVE FOOTBALL

By Jasmine Holder
The Eden Project is in Cornwall.  There are some massive Biomes that are shaped as footballs.

In one of them there is a rainforest that has been grown.  

Another name for a rainforest is a jungle.
In the hot and steamy biome there was a little lake where you threw a coin into the water and made a wish.

There are lots of different plants there and lots to find out about.

We walked around a very windy path, over some streams and up a hill. 

There were lots of animals in there such as little birds, fish and luckily no snakes!
In the biome there was a house made from bamboo and a banana factory.