Reading · Grade 4
The Amazon Rainforest
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The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth, spread across parts of South America. It is warm and wet all year, and rain falls almost every day. This makes it the perfect home for an incredible number of living things. Millions of kinds of insects, birds, animals, and plants live there — more than anywhere else in the world. The trees of the Amazon are so important that the forest is sometimes called the "lungs of the planet," because its plants make a huge amount of the oxygen we breathe.
On which continent is the Amazon rainforest?
What is the weather like there?
Why do so many living things live there?
What nickname does the Amazon have?
What do the forest’s plants make that we need?
Answer Key
- South America.
- Warm and wet all year, with almost daily rain.
- The warm, wet climate is a perfect home.
- The "lungs of the planet."
- Oxygen.