Temperate Rainforests 

    These are fun facts about temperate rain forests 

• Due to the large amounts rainfall plants thrive in this biome; including trees which grow extremely high.
• Temperate rain forests receive from sixty to two hundred inches of rain per year; which is much less than what a tropical rain forest receives. 
• Due to the lots of rainfall plants thrive in this biome; including trees which grow extremely high.
• Temperate rainforest are divided into three layers; the canopy, understory, and forest floor. Tropical rainforest have an additional layer, the Emergent layer which is the highest layer.
• Tropical rainforests do not have a major change in seasons, temperate rainforests have a major change. They have a dry season and a long wet season. The temperature is almost always cool, but in the summer it can get quite hot and in the winter quite cold.
• The largest temperate rainforests in the world are located in North America. They go along the pacific coastline from North California through Canada and up into Alaska. Surprisingly the Pacific Northwest is home to two thirds of all the temperate rainforests in the world.
• The forest floor is the lowest layer of the temperate rainforest.