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READING Read. Circle the correct words.

1. Rain forests are in countries far from / near the Equator.
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Amazing Rain Forests 2. Plants make a lot of oxygen / water.

3. Plants need light / oxygen to live.

Rain forests are warm, wet forests. They are in countries near
the Equator—in Central America, South America, Africa, Southeast 4. Many leopards / birds live in the top part of the rain forest.
Asia, and Australia. Rain forests are important. They’re homes for

millions of animals and plants. The plants in rain forests make much 5. Many large animals live on the forest floor / tops of trees.
of the oxygen that people in the world need to live.

A RAIN FOREST HAS FOUR PARTS:
3 Complete the chart. Use these words. You can use some
Emergent words more than once.
In this part, you can see the tops of very
tall trees. They are sometimes 60 m (200 ft.) birds dark large animals monkeys snakes spiders sunny
tall! Many different birds, butterflies, and

other insects live here.

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In this part of the forest, the trees have
many leaves. Birds, spiders, tree frogs,

monkeys, and snakes live here.

Understory

In this part of the forest, it is dark, wet, and
cool. There aren’t many plants. Why? Because
plants need light to live. Snakes and lizards
live here. Jaguars like to live in this part, too!

Forest floor
In this part, there are many insects and
spiders. Some spiders are as big as plates! 4 Talk about the different

There are many large animals. And people parts of the rain forest. There are gorillas
live here, too!
Work with a partner. in this part.

Howler monkeys are very,
very loud. You can hear them
from 5 km (3 mi.) away.
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