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Jungle and The Rain Forest
Jungle and rain forest are terms that are often used synonymously but with
little precision. The more meaningful and restrictive of these terms is
rain forest, which refers to the climax or primary forest in regions with
high rainfall (greater than 1.8 m/70 in per year), chiefly but ....
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.... upper canopy of tropical rain forests is generally about 30
to 50 m (100 to 165 ft), with some individual trees rising as high as 60 m
(200 ft) above the forest floor.
The largest areas of tropical rain forest are in the Amazon basin of South
America, in the Congo basin and other lowland equatorial regions of Africa,
and on both the mainland and the islands off Southeast Asia, where they are
especially abundant on Sumatra and New Guinea. Small areas are found in
Central America and along the Queensland coast of Australia.
Temperate rain forests, growing in higher-latitude regions h ....
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