Location
Most rainforests live in the
hot wet part of the world called the tropics. The tropics are near the equator.
The equator is an imaginary line that runs around the horizontal centre of the
Earth, where the weather is warmest. Tropical rainforests are only found in
countries near the Equator.
Tropical rainforests are found between the two tropic lines and are usually close to the equator rather than further away nearer to the tropic lines. The largest untouched tropical rainforest is found in South Africa near the Amazon Basin and measures about 6.9 million kilometres. The second largest tropical rainforest is found in Queensland and is called the Daintree. It measures around 9000 2 km.
Climate
The climate of a rainforest is
lush and wet and has an average temperature of 27oC. The average
amount of rainfall a tropical rainforest gets a year is between 90 and 130 cm of
water. The temperature all year round is usually hot - and they don't have the
same seasons as Europe. Temperature can reach up to 30oC 
in the day
and 20oC at night.
Because the temperature is usually hot that helps to make it rain. Roots on trees soak up all the water from the ground. The water is sucked up through the trunk into the leaves and then heat makes the water vapour condense to make clouds. Rain clouds produce rainfall and it drops back on to the forest and the cycle starts again.
By Year 7, Brown Room, Bulimba State School, October 2003