A
tropical rainforest has more kinds of trees than any other area
in the world. Scientists have counted about 100 to 300 species of
plants and trees in the area of South America. Seventy percent of the
plants in
the rainforest are trees. Of the three choices below, which plant
species is
considered the most important to the rainforest ?
Rainforests now cover less than
6% of Earth's land surface with year round warmth and rain fall annualy
making them in the wet climate group. Scientists estimate that more
than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical
rainforests. Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen.
A) Strangler Figs
B) Coconut Tree
C) Bengal Bamboo
