Tropical Rainforest Biome

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In the tropical rainforest biome, there are weather patterns , geographic features, arrangement of vegetation. Weather patterns happen a-lot in the tropical rainforest for example the temperature would stay at about 25-30 degrees celsius and it would also rain everyday with an average of about 2500 millimeters of rain every single day. Geographic features in the tropical rainforest are like moss, rocks, trees, grass, soil, plants. The land of a rainforest is rocky although it is covered with hills and small mountain that cover up the surface. The tropical rainforest is made up of 4 different layers, the first layer trees grow up to 40 meters high and is called the emergent layer, The second layer is called the canopy layer, the trees are

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