Cloud forest
In mountainous
areas, rainforests
may be so high that
they’re cloaked in
clouds. The heavy
moisture encourages
lush plant growth.
Rainforest layers
A rainforest is like
a block of
flats, with
different
residents at
different layers.
There are four
main levels.
Who lives there?
All sorts of
animals make
the rainforest
their home.
Emergents are the
high tree tops that
poke out above
everything else.
Most of a rainforest’s animals (excluding worms in the leaf litter) live in the canopy.
Rainforests
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The canopy is
made up from
the majority of
the tree tops.
It is a forest’s
leaky roof.
The understorey
is made up of
short trees,
shade-loving
plants, and lianas.
Moth
orchid
Bushbaby
Blue poison
dart frog
Yellow-banded
poison dart frog
Eastern
rosella
The forest floor is a thick
carpet of dead leaves,
ferns, and the buttresses
of tree roots.
Bushbabies
venture out
at night. Their
huge eyes help them
see in the dark.
Become
an expert
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Ecosystems
160-161
Deciduous
forest
These frogs eat poisonous
insects, then store the
poison in their skin.
Their colourful patterns
let other animals
know that they are
dangerous to eat.
Boa constrictor
Constrictors
don’t have fangs
or poison, so
they kill prey
by squeezing
it to death.
