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Tropical rain forests receive more than 80 inches (200 centimeters) of rain a year, with moist air and rain that may come in bursts, dripping off leaf tips when it stops.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},567869,1792446144,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":8,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":16},1099514068035,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","S CHOLRSTIC S CIEN CE READER S“  \nLEWEL  \nTROPICAL  \nRAIN FOREST◎SCHOLASTIC  \nApril Pulley Sayre  \nGran  \nS CH⁰LASTI C SCIENCE REA DER ST  \nLEVE L  \n# TROPICAL\n\nRAIN FOREST  \nAuwley SayeSCHOLASTICREFERENCE  \nPHOTO CREDITS:Cover:Stephen Dalton/Photo Researchers,Inc.Page 1:April Pulley  \nSayre;3:Jacques Jangoux/Photo Researchers,Inc.;4:◎Royalty Free/Corbis;5:Aaron  \nHaupt/Photo Researchers,Inc.;7:Tom &Pat Leeson/Photo Researchers,Inc.;8:  \nWayne Lawler/Photo Researchers,Inc.;9:April Pulley Sayre;10:Luiz C.Marigo/Peter  \nArnold,Inc.;11:Gregory G.Dimijian/Photo Researchers,Inc.;12:April Pulley Sayre;  \n13:Michael Fogden/Bruce Coleman Inc.;15:Tom &Pat Leeson/Photo Researchers,Inc.;  \n16:Michael Fogden/Bruce Coleman Inc.;17:Farrell Grehan/Photo Researchers,Inc.;18:  \nApril Pulley Sayre;19:Carolyn Iverson/Photo Researchers,Inc.;21:Norman Owen  \nTomalin/Bruce Coleman Inc.;23:Bob Burch/Bruce Coleman Inc.;24:Michael  \nFogden/Bruce Coleman Inc.;25:Fletcher &Baylis/Photo Researchers,Inc.;27:Michael  \nFogden/Bruce Coleman Inc.;28:David M.Schleser/Nature's Images,Inc./Photo  \nResearchers,Inc.;29:Michael Fogden/Bruce Coleman Inc.;30:Tim Davis/Photo  \nResearchers,Inc.;31(top):Ray Coleman/Photo Researchers,Inc.;31(bottom):David  \nM.Schleser/Nature's Images,Inc./Photo Researchers,Inc.;32:James H.  \nCarmichael/Photo Researchers,Inc.;33:Gregory G.Dimijian/Photo Researchers,Inc.;  \n34;Michael Fogden/Bruce Coleman Inc.;35:Ivan Polunin/Bruce Coleman Inc.;36:  \nLeonide Principe/Photo Researchers,Inc.;37:April Pulley Sayre;38:Wesley Bocxe/Photo  \nResearchers,Inc.;39:Karl Weidmann/Photo Researchers,Inc.;40:Erwin &Peggy  \nBauer/Bruce Coleman Inc.;41:◎318;Gallo Images/Corbis;43:MichaelJ.Doolittle/Peter  \nArmold,Inc.;45:Kenneth W.Fink/Photo Researchers,Inc.  \nThe animal shown on the title page is a howler monkey.  \nCopyright ◎2002 by April Pulley SayreAll rights reserved.Published by Scholastic Inc.SCHOLASTIC,SCHOLASTIC SCIENCE READERS,and associated logos aretrademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced,or stored in a retrieval system,ortransmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without written permission of the publisher.For informationregarding permission,write to Scholastic Inc.,Attention:Permissions Department,555 Broadway,New York,NY 10012.  \nISBN 0-439-26994-6  \nBook design by Barbara Balch and Kay PetronioPhoto research by Sarah Longacre  \n10987654320203040506  \nPrinted in the U.S.A.23  \nFirst printing,April 2002  \nWe are grateful to Francie Alexander,reading specialist,and toAdele M.Brodkin,Ph.D.,developmental psychologist,for theircontributions to the development of this series.  \nOur thanks also to our science consultants Dr.Nora Bynum of the Organization forTropical Studies,and Mark Halvorsen,Iropics Zone Keeper at New York City'sCentral Park Wildlife Center.  \nCompared to a city,a tropical rain  \nforest is quiet.Tall trees tower over you,making you feel small.But if you listencarefully,you can hear animals.Frogschirp.Parrots screech.Insects click.Apiece of bark falls.You look up at a treethat is taller than a ten-story building.Howler monkeys hoot and roar.  \nIropical rain forests are a specialkind of forest.They only grow in thetropics.The tropics is the area justnorth and south of the equator.Theequator is an imaginary line.Like abelt,it circles Earth's middle.  \nEarth's largest patches of tropicalrain forest are in Brazil,Zaire,andIndonesia.Tropical rain forests alsogrow in other places.They grow inMexico.They grow in Central  \nAmerica.Tropical rain forests coverparts of islands such as Hawaii,Puerto Rico,and Madagascar.  \nIropical rain forests contain manyspecies,or kinds,of animals.They havemore animal species than other placeson Earth.In a rain forest,expert  \nbirdwatchers can find 300 bird speciesin a day.That's more than they maysee in a year elsewhere.  \nIn Peru,a scientist found forty-threedifferent ant species on one ","cbCaijhvS9LA2ZsJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijhvS9LA2ZsJ","pdf",3491063,52,"English","# Tropical\n## Take a Closer Look","[{\"question\":\"Where do tropical rain forests grow?\",\"answer\":\"Tropical rain forests grow in the tropics, the area just north and south of the equator. 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