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Tropical rain forests are characterized by dense vegetation, seasonally warm temperatures, and abundant rainfall. They are home to the majority of plant and animal species in the world.
Some locations of tropical rain forests include:
Africa
Central America
Hawaii
West India
Southeast Asia
A great variety of plants can be found in tropical rain forests. Enormous trees as tall as 150 feet form an umbrella canopy over the forest that blocks out the sunlight for plants in the lower canopy and forest floor.
To learn more about rain forests and other biomes, see
Land Biomes and
Land Biomes Quiz.
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There is also extensive tropical rainforest in Queensland (in Australia), Indonesia, and New Guinea, and a bit in New Caledonia. These forests consist mostly of flora that evolved in the southern super-continent of Gondwana, so their plants are almost all complete different from what you would be familiar with the Northern hemisphere.