• There are two different types of rainforests: Tropical and Temperate. A main different between tropical rainforests and temperate rainforest is climate. Another difference between tropical rainforests and temperate rainforests are types of trees.

Tropical rainforest

• are found close to the equator and between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

• are found in Central and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

• Tropical rainforests are moist and very warm all year round.

• Tropical rainforests have hundreds of different kinds of trees.

• The largest tropical rainforest is the Amazon. It covers 1.4 billion acres.

• The largest part of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil but it also covers areas of Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guiana.

• The Amazon, Mekong, Orinoco and Congo Rivers all flow through rainforests.

• Tropical rainforest trees form a canopy. Canopies are formed when the tree branches and leaves overlap each other.

Temperate rainforest

• are mostly found in cooler climates of the Pacific Northwest, from Northern California up through Canada and Alaska.

• Chile, Tasmania, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Norway also have small temperate rainforests.

• Temperate rainforest are cool in the winter and warm in the summer.

• Temperate rainforests have three different types of trees:Deciduous trees- trees that lose their leaves in the fall
  Coniferous trees- trees that have leaves that look like pointy..
  Evergreen trees- trees that always stay green

• Rainforests are found on every continent except for Antarctica.
  

• 100 inches or more rain falls in rainforests every year.
  

• Rainforests only cover 6% of the Earth’s surface yet helf the world's animals, plants and insects live in the rainforest.
  

• A lot of the Earth's oxygen comes from the rainforest
  

• Not only is the rainforest home to many plants, animals and insects but to also indigenous people.

• Many tribes call the rainforest home. They often live the same as the tribes who lived there centuries before them.

• Most indigenous people have no contact with the world outside the rainforest.