The Biome Project- Tropical Forest

Tropical Forest–

There are up to six types of biomes Tundra, Taiga, Desert, Grassland, Temperate Forest, and what we’ll be talking about today is Tropical Forest. Abiotic factors of the Tropical Forest is 68 degrees for the average temperature, and the average precipitation is 50 to about 260 inches of rain fall yearly for the Tropical Forest. Some soil characteristics is that it is poor in nutrients because of millions of years of weathering and torrential rains have washed the nutrients out of the soil. A biotic factors of the animals adaptive survival features includes small animals such as monkeys, birds, snakes, rodents, frogs, and lizards. The animals use the tall trees to make shelter to survive from predators, such as leopard, gorilla, and other predators. Plants adaptive survival features is that it’s the right amount of warmth and has perfect amount of rainfall to help the plants grow, except when animals pee on them though.

www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm

www.MBGnet.net/sets/rforest/explore/layers.htm

The Green Basilisk lizard

The scientific name for it is the Plumed/ Double Crested Basilisk. The size of this creature is about 2 to 2.5ft tall. The color of this creature is a different shades of green, and brown. The weight and life span is that it is about 7oz, and lives up 10 to 7 years. The habitat of the Basilisk would be found in rainforests throughout South America, near ponds, lakes, puddles, and rivers. The Biome it can be found in is the Tropical Forest district, and the range where creature lives is about the bridge where northern South America meats southern Mexico. This creature eats insects, rats, mice, fruits, flowers, and smaller species of lizards. The predator family of this creature is larger reptiles, birds, and some mammals. If they ever feel threatened by a predator, that’s why there never far away from water, they would just run on the water as the animal slowly makes it to them and eventually gives up or is eaten by another animal. Its gestation period lasts up to 60 to 90 days, and give 13 to 14 eggs. Interesting facts of the Basilisk is that it can run on water by its webbed feet, its light weight, and its incredible speed. It can run up to 11km on the ground and can run 8.4km on the water. Its species can hold its breath under water for 30 seconds.

animaldiversity.org/accounts/Basiliscus_basiliscus

https://leanardo-newtonic/jesuscristlizard-3facts-about-this-amazing-animal

The Hevea Brasiliensis

Also known as the Rubber Tree its height is up to 20 to 25ft tall, the 3 to 2ft long leaves are different shades of green. Its Biome is the Tropical Forest, its location is the Amazon Rain Forest, and God placed it in deserted, hot, grassy, watery areas. Water is associated with the rubber tree so it can grow up to 20 to 25ft tall. Carbon is associated with the rubber tree by flowing through the rubbery substance inside the tree. Nitrogen is associated with the rubber tree by how much it runs through the roots. It can grow all year long because of the type of climate it is in, and stops growing at about 150 to 100 years. An interesting fact of the rubber tree is that the vessels inside the tree is harvested for latex which fall into buckets for the villages around that tree group so they can make useful objectives.

www.activewild.com/tropical-rainforest-plants-list/