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Energy Pyramid

python (3rd consumers)

j a g u a r s (secondary consumers)

m a c a w s (primary consumers)

ferns and trees

(produc-ers)

Food Web

Key

Decomposers:bracket fungi, jelly-like fungi, gilled fungi, slime mold, coral fungi

Producers: orchids, seeds, banana trees, bamboo, coconut trees

Consumers (left to right): Macaws, fruitbats, monkeys, insects

Secondary consumers(slightly up) chimpanzees, parrots

Secondary consumers continued: vampire-bat, iguana,red-eyed tree frog

Top of food chain: python, jaguar

Animals that Adapted to the Amazon Rainforest



Macaw: sharp hooked beak perfect for eating nuts, fruits, and seeds found in the rainforest. More choices of what to fill their tummy with.



Poison Dart Frog: Growing a poisonous skin. No animal can eat it without dying and one frog could kill 100 humans.



Jaguar: They adapted to swim, run, and climb so it can catch a variety of prey. Also the spots help to blend it in to the environment around it so its prey can't see it and neither can its predators.



Three-toed Sloth: They adapted by allowing green algae to make its home in their fur so it blends in with the tops of the trees and its predators can't see it.



Wooly Spider Monkey: a tail like a hand that can be used to hang from trees and to grab food like fruit.

Plants that Adapted to Rainforest Life

Epiphytes: these pants don't sprout from the soil but high up on branches of trees. They then have a steady water supply without low down animals that might eat them. These plants don't even have to worry about the ground being too crowded.

Fern: Fern are low on the ground and grow close to the trunks of trees. They have adapted to the shady conditions with all the trees blocking out most of their sun.

Lianas: a type of climbing vine that begin life on the ground but use trees for support as they climb towards the sun.

Bromeliads: a plant whose waxy leaves form a bowl in the middle to catch rainwater.

Anaconda

Toucan

Macaw

Jaguar

Black Caiman

Sloth

Giant River Otter

Amazon Pink River Dolphin

Capybara

Some animals of the Amazon

Animal
What It Eats
Endangered?

Spider Monkey: Grows up to 2 ft. tall not including tail. Enjoys hanging around by its tail.

Fruits, seeds, and leaves

no

Sloth: Enjoys hanging upside down. Rarely comes down from the tree. Loves to sleep.

Fruits, leaves, bugs

no

Giant River Otter: Grows up to 6 ft. long and weighs around 70 pounds. Biggest of its kind in the world.

Fish, small reptiles, small birds

Yes, highly

Capybara: biggest rodent on Earth. 2 ft. tall and 100 pounds! This giant rodent is a great swimmer and it even swims underwater. capybara

Grass, aquatic vegetation, melons, squashes

Yes, the capybara is endangered for two main reasons. One reason is that it is hunted for its prize meat by humans, jaguars, caimans, anacondas, ocelots, and more. But the number one reason is deforestation. This big rodent is losing its home.

Amazon Pink River Dolphin: local don’t kill them because they think it is bad luck.

Fish, they get them from ripping open fisherman’s nets

No, becoming endangered fast

Toucan: colorful beak, can grow from about 7 inches to over 2 ft.

It is a herbivore

No

Macaw: largest of the parrot family, height ranges from 1 ft. to 3 ft.

Nuts, fruits, and seeds

Yes, because of poaching, and deforestation

Black Caiman: largest predator in the Amazon river. No enemy other than human. Grows up to 20 ft. long and weighs up to 3,000 pound!

Capybara, piranha, giant river otter, humans, and basically anything else it wants

yes

Anaconda: reaching up to 37 ft. long and 600 pounds this snake squeezes its prey until it suffocates than swallows it whole.

It doesn’t eat often but when it does it eats things from capybara to human

No

Jaguar: one of the most dangerous animals in the Amazon. An amazing hunter that reaches 6 ft. long and can weigh up to 250 pounds

Small crocodiles, fish, turtles, dear, bird, ect.

No

Characteristics that make the Amazon rainforest Special

#1 The Amazon rainforest is home to an abundance of animals and plants and may contain half of the world's species! Your sure to run into some type of animal or plant if you go strolling down the Amazon rainforest.





#2 The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world taking up most of the Amazon basin. Make sure you keep with your tour guide so you do not get lost.





#3 With all those trees and plants it is no surprise that more than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest giving it the name "the lungs of the Earth".





#4 About 2,700 million acres of the Amazon rainforest are burned each year. That is a lot of land to waste. What happens to the animals and people that live there?





#5 Amazon Rainforest plants can be used in tons of medicines. 1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.

Average precipitation in the Amazon rainforest is about nine ft.,or 108 inches, of rain a year! When packing for this trip don't forget a rain coat or an umbrella.

Average temperature is around 79 degrees expect warm and humid weather. The temperature does not change much between seasons in fact it changes more between night and day than it does between seasons!

South America Map: Green is Amazon rainforestThis is where the amazing Amazon rainforest is located. This is an awesome place to go for a family vacation with tons of hot spots if you don't mind monkeys and other tropical animals. :)

The Amazon rainforest is located inside of Brazil but also crosses a little into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuader, Colombia, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, and Venezuala.