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Tropical Rainforests: Done by Maria Pearl and Bansi

Tropical rainforests have a climate with no dry season, where all months receive at least 60 mm of rainfall. It is hot and wet throughout the year. Rainfall is heavy and frequent. The soils of tropical rainforests are typically nutrient-poor, with nutrients held in living organisms. Common soil types include ultisols and oxisols, which are highly weathered, acidic red clay soils deficient in nutrients like calcium and potassium.

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Tropical Rainforests: Done by Maria Pearl and Bansi

Tropical rainforests have a climate with no dry season, where all months receive at least 60 mm of rainfall. It is hot and wet throughout the year. Rainfall is heavy and frequent. The soils of tropical rainforests are typically nutrient-poor, with nutrients held in living organisms. Common soil types include ultisols and oxisols, which are highly weathered, acidic red clay soils deficient in nutrients like calcium and potassium.

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Tropical rainforests

Done by maria pearl and bansi


Climate type
 Tropical rainforests have a type of tropical climate
in which there is no dry season—all months have
an average precipitation value of at least 60 mm
(2.4 in). Tropical rainforests have no summer or
winter; it is typically hot and wet throughout the
year and rainfall is both heavy and frequent. One
day in an equatorial climate can be very similar to
the next, while the change in temperature between
day and night may be larger than the average
change in temperature during the year
 In an average year in a tropical rain forest, the climate is very
humid because of all the rainfall, which amounts to about 250 cm
per year.
 The rain forest has lots of rain because it is very hot and wet. This
climate is found near the equator. That means that there is more
direct sunlight hitting the land and sea there than anywhere else.
 The sun warms the land and sea and the water evaporates into the
air. The warm air can hold a lot of water vapor. As the air rises, it
cools. That means it can hold less water vapor. Then as warm
meets cold, condensation takes place and the vapor forms droplets,
and clouds form. The clouds then produce rain.
 It rains more than ninety days a year and the strong sun usually
shines between the storms. The water cycle repeats often along the
equator.
 The main plants in this biome are trees. A lot of the rain that
falls on the rain forest never reaches the ground. It stays on
the trees because the leaves act as a shield, and some rain
never gets past the trees to the smaller plants and grounds
below. Trees in this climate reach a height of more than 164
feet. They form a canopy. The forest floor is called
understory. The canopy also keeps sunlight from reaching the
plants in the understory. Between the canopy and understory
is a lower canopy made up of smaller trees. These plants do
receive some filtered sunlight.
Soils
 Many tropical soils are acidic and depleted in weatherable
minerals such as calcium, potassium and magnesium,
essential for plants. Many lowland forests are limited by a
lack of phosphorus, or sometimes calcium and magnesium;
others, on spodosols (periodically-flooded sands) seem to be
limited by low nitrogen levels.
 The soils of the tropical rain forest are typically nutrient-poor;
all of the nutrients are held in the living organisms. Any
nutrients in the soil would be swiftly leached away by the
heavy rainfall. The soils in many areas of tropical rain forests
are laterite soils.
 Soil types are highly variable in the tropics and are the result of a
combination of several variables such as climate, vegetation, topographic
position, parent material, and soil age. Most tropical soils are
characterized by significant leaching and poor nutrients, however there
are some areas that contain fertile soils. Soils throughout the tropical
rainforests fall into two classifications which include the ultisols and
oxisols. Ultisols are known as well weathered, acidic red clay soils,
deficient in major nutrients such as calcium and potassium. Similarly,
oxisols are acidic, old, typically reddish, highly weathered and leached,
however are well drained compared to ultisols. The clay content of
ultisols is high, making it difficult for water to penetrate and flow
through. The reddish color of both soils is the result of heavy heat and
moisture forming oxides of iron and aluminium, which are insoluble in
water and not taken up readily by plants.
 Ultisols are intensely weathered soils of warm and humid
climates. ... While generally low in natural fertility and high
in soil acidity the clay content of Ultisols gives them a
nutrient retention capacity greater than that of Oxisols.
 Oxisols (from the French oxide – oxide) are soils of tropical
and subtropical regions, which are dominated by iron oxides,
quartz, and highly weathered clay minerals such as kaolinite.

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