Rainforest Life

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Plants

• There are millions of plants in the rainforest

• Most live in the shrub layer• Some plants called epiphytes grow on

trees getting their nutrients from the tree• Their roots then comedown to the ground

Animals

50% of animals live in the rainforest

more than in Britain and Europe put to gather

Most snakes live in the Amazon

Some with deadly poison

Tribes

• There are lots of tribes in the Amazon rainforest.

Tribe boy

They love to eat meat

There are lots of tribes in the Amazon we have not found yet We have only found

21tribesWe think there are 30 more to find

trees

• 90% of life lives in the trees

• Trees battle to get the light

There are 5 different tree layers

Rain forest tree