Rain Forests
Many kinds of trees grow best where it is always wet. So much rain falls in these places that they are known as rain forests. Throughout the year, life is always much the same in a rain forest. Rain storms soak these forests almost every day. The trees are always green.
In tropical rain forests, the air is hot night and day. Millions of animals live in tropical rain forests. The animals are very noisy as they call out in the deep shade. Most of them live in the trees. Monkeys, apes, flying squirrels, anteaters, snakes, insects, and parrots all make their homes in the branches. Animals eat in the trees and make their nests there.
Few animals live on the rain forest floor, where there is less food to be found and more danger from predators. The large trees and their huge leaves block out most of the sunlight and so keep smaller plants from growing.
Not all places called rain forests are hot. The temperate rain forest of the northwest coast of the U.S.A. is cool, wet, and green all year round.
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