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William B. Rice

Amazon Rainforest Rice

Rainforest

Amazon

Consultant

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Kent State University

Publishing Credits

Dona Herweck Rice, Editor-in-Chief

Robin Erickson, Production Director

Lee Aucoin, Creative Director

Conni Medina, M.A.Ed., Editorial Director

Jamey Acosta, Editor

Heidi Kellenberger, Editor

Lexa Hoang, Designer

Stephanie Reid, Photo Editor

Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher

Teacher Created Materials

5301 Oceanus Drive

Huntington Beach, CA 92649-1030

http://www.tcmpub.com

ISBN 978-1-4333-3671-3

2012 Teacher Created Materials, Inc.

Image Credits

Cover Erkki & Hanna/Shutterstock; inset: Braam Collins/Shutterstock; p.2-3 Paul Aniszewski/Shutterstock;

p.3 Andrea Haase/Shutterstock; p.4-5 Paul Aniszewski/Shutterstock; p.5 top to bottom: A Cotton

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back cover: windmoon/Shutterstock

Based on writing from TIME For Kids.

TIME For Kids and the TIME For Kids logo

are registered trademarks of TIME Inc.

Used under license.

Synched Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-865-4 (e-book)

Table of Contents

Ancient Forests ................................... 4

What Makes a Forest? .............................. 6

Amazon Rainforest ............................... 10

People of the Amazon ............................. 14

Amazon Plant Life ............................... 16

Amazing Animals ................................

The Future ...................................... 28

Glossary..............................................

Index .......................................... 31

About the Author .................................

Ancient Forests

Forests have been around for a long time. They were here on Earth

before people were. Forests cover huge areas of land. They cross

many, many miles.

Forests may be the most beautiful places on Earth. There is so

much to see, smell, and hear there. Trees grow thick and tall. Animals

are in the trees and on the ground.

Tropical rainforests may be the most beautiful forests of all. This

book is about the largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon.

Kelp beds are like

underwater forests.

What Makes a Forest?

Forests are places where many trees and plants grow thickly across a

large area of land. Of course, trees and plants grow all over. But they do

not always make a forest. It takes many trees and plants growing close

together to make a forest.

Trees are a key part of forests. It does not matter what type of

trees they are. Different trees and plants like to grow in different

settings. Some trees and plants grow where it is hot and dry, as in

deserts. Some trees and plants grow where it is wet and cold, as in

mountains. Some grow where it is rainy and hot most of the year.

Those are tropical rainforests.

About Trees

Trees are woody plants with

a single main stem or trunk

and many branches. Most

experts define trees as

being at least feet tall

and alive for many years.

This diagram shows the

main parts of a tree.

trunk

leaves

feet

roots

Tropical rainforests are exactly as they sound. They are rainy and

wet. Some can get over six feet of rain each year!

The tropics are the area around the middle of Earth. So, rainforests

there are tropical rainforests. Another word for them is jungle .

Temperate

Rainforest

The Hoh Rainforest is found in the

northwest United States. It is a

temperate rainforest . A rainforest is

called temperate when it is located within

the temperate zones on Earth, and it is

usually cooler than the tropics. The Hoh

can get over inches of rain each year.

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