Rainforest -- School-age
A tropical rainforest is a forest that gets a lot of rain. Tropical rainforests are located in the tropics, near the equator. A tropical rainforest is a very tall and dense jungle, with a hot humid climate. It gets at least 75 inches of rain and in some areas well over 100 inches of rain.
The largest tropical rainforests are in: Brazil- Amazon River Basin (South America), Zaire-Congo River Basin(Africa), and the Indonesia (islands found near the Indian Ocean).
Tropical rainforests are located around the equator; from the Tropic of Cancer in the north, to the Tropic of Capricorn in the south.