Berry Kwockr age 10, of Fire aug , California, for his question;

What is a rain forest?

A rain forest is a jungle of tropical evergreens. The tallest boughs form a canopy of foliage sometimes 200 feet above the forest floor. Smaller trees, shrubs and ferns nestle in the filtered sunlight under the top of the green tent. The leaves of most of these evergreen trees are dark green, leathery ovals. But the variety of their fruit and flowers is endless,

Sometimes there may be almost a thousand different types of trees growing together in one acre of rain forest land. For this is the best of all climates for the plant world. Here grow the widest variety of plants and the biggest specimens.

Two things are necessary to produce a rain forest, rainfall and warm weather. The highest rainfall in the United States showers on the Olympic mountains of Washington ‑ 146 inches a year. A true rain forest needs 150 to 200 inches of rainfall scattered throughout the year. The climate must be warm enough to be tropical the year round. The natural areas of rain forests are along the borders of the Amazon and Congo rivers and also in the Philippine Islands and the East Indies,