Biome In Tropical Rainforest

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RainForest My biome is the rainforest. I chose the rainforest because it seems like a very interesting biome to do my report on. There are many locations for rainforest the ones I found are the amazon rainforest, the rainforest of asia, the central american rainforest, and the australian rainforest. All these rainforest are different some are big and some are small. Although all of these rainforest do have something in common they are all tropical rainforest. The climate of a rainforest is very humid. It is humid because all of the rain they get there. A rain forest usually gets 250 centimeters which is equal to eight feet of rain a year. That is a lot of

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