Tropical Rainforest

Fun Facts: The Amazon rain forest is the largest tropical rain forest in the world, covering over five and a half a million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres)

- 20% of Earth's oxygen comes from the Amazon Rain forest
-There are also a number of dangerous species living in the Amazon rain forest such as the cougar, jaguar and anaconda.

Fauna & Flora: 500 different mammals, 175 different lizard species, and 300 other reptiles.

Home of the black spider monkey and the Toucan

Kapok Tree is a strange tree that grows within the rain forest

40,000 different plant species are in the rain forest

Climate: Typically  humid, due to droughts the weather has been been arid in most places.

Physical Characteristics: Covers more than half of Brazil.

40% of South America is covered by it.

Around the same size as USA.