By: Dan Weed,Derek Trombley, Ryan McNiel,

And Patrick DeGeorge

The Amazon:

• Is the world’s largest Tropical rain forest, covering the entire Amazon river basin (around 2 million square miles).

• Has the most variety of species than anywhere in the world.

• ¼ of all medicines come from the Amazon

The Amazon has a dry season (Jun-Nov.) and a wet season (Dec.-May); humid & hot all year long!

Temp. in the rainforest stays at a steady 23.5 degrees Celsius

The rainforest has an annual rainfall of 4 meters in every location of the rainforest.

• No Predominant Plants! It’s too diverse!

Layers

-Emergent: top layer of trees

-Upper canopy: where most animals live

-Lower canopy: Little air movement, high humidity

-Forest floor: less then 1 percent of the sunlight reaches this layer.

Angel’s wingsCattleya Maxima

Heliconia psittacorum

Monsteras Cattleya Maxima“Santa Maria” Pepper

Cercropia

Kapok Tree

Brazil Nut Tree

Fig Tree

Chicle (chewing gum) Tree

Three-Toed Sloth Eats: Fruits and leaves

Howler MonkeyEats: Flowers, fruits, and leaves

Leafcutter antsEats: Fungus (NOT LEAVES!!)

CapybaraEats: Grasses, melons, and water plants

TapirEats: Leaves and small branches

Giant AnteaterEats: Ants/Insects

TarantulaEats: Insects, birds, mice, lizards frogs and other tarantulas

OcelotEats: Monkeys, rodents, reptiles, and fish

Giant River OtterEats: Fish, Caiman, and birds

Black CaimanEats: Piranha and Capybara

PiranhasEats: Seeds, insects, fish, and wounded animals

Golden Lion TamarinEats: Fruit, insects, spiders, lizards, frogs, and snakes

ToucanEats: Fruit, seeds, insects, reptiles, and frogs

KinkajouEats: Fruit, leaves, insects, bird’s eggs, birds, and frogs

JAGUARS

ANACONDASHARPY EAGLEEats: Monkeys, sloths, and other birds

Eats: Caimans, fish, and birds

Eats: Tapirs, caimans, giant river otter, and fish

Vegetation

3-Toed Sloth

Harpy Eagle

Vegetation

Leafcutter ants

Anteater

Jaguar

Vegetation Vegetation Vegetation

Tapir

Jaguar

Howler Monkey

Ocelots

Anaconda

Capybara

Caiman

Anaconda

Food Web

Vegetation

Tapirs

Leafcutter Ants

3 Toed Sloth

Harpy Eagle

Toucan

Jaguar Anaconda

Howler Monkeys

Capybara

Kinkajou

Anteaters

Golden Lion Tamarin Piranha

Giant River OtterBlack Caiman

Tarantula

Ocelot