World Rainforest Day, Celebrated on June 22, is a collaborative effort to raise awareness and encourage action to save one of the earth’s most precious resources, our rainforest. The forest floor is in complete shade, meaning there is little likelihood of plants growing there and making it easy to walk through the forest. (You can use the answer key to help you name the layers and decide which animals to add to each layer.) Add some animals Choose some animals that live in the Amazon rainforest and add them to your picture by drawing, using rainforest stickers or printing out pictures from the Zoo’s or other websites. The under-story, usually shaded and home to bushes and shrubs as well as the branches of canopy trees. Label the different layers of the rainforest. The upper canopy houses most of the rain forest's animal species, and forms a roof that blocks most light from reaching below it. Emergent trees grow far apart and tall, their branches reaching above the canopy. These beautiful colouring pages include animals and plants found in South America, as well as pages devoted to each of the rainforest layers: emergent, canopy, understorey and forest floor. The rain forest is made up of four layers: emergent, upper canopy, under-story, and forest floor. Much of this is concentrated in the tree canopy layer the layers created well above the forest oor by the overlapping branches and leaves of rainforest trees. Rain forests play an invaluable role in sustaining life, but every year, large portions of them are cut down for logging, mining, and cattle ranches. of life in the rainforest is found in the trees. Rain forests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between 250 and 450 centimeters (98 and 177 in) and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.
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