What are the characteristics that define a rainforest?
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Characteristics\nRainforests are characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 2,000 mm (about 78 inches or 2 meters) and 1700 mm (about 67 inches). The soil can be poor because high rainfall tends to leach out soluble nutrients.\n\nRain forests are home to two-thirds of all the living animal and plant species on the planet. It has been estimated that many hundreds of millions of new species of plants, insects, and microorganisms are still undiscovered and as yet unnamed by science. Tropical rain forests are called the "jewel of the earth", the "Earth's lungs", and the "world's largest pharmacy" because of the large amount of natural medicines discovered there.\n\nDespite the growth of flora in a rainforest, the actual quality of the soil is quite poor. Oxisols, infertile, and deeply weathered, have developed on the ancient Gondwanan shields. Rapid bacterial decay prevents the accumulation of humus. The concentration of iron and aluminium oxides by the laterization process gives the oxisols a bright red color and sometimes produces minable deposits (e.g. bauxite). On younger substrates, especially of volcanic origin, tropical soils may be quite fertile.\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/RAINFOREST
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They are. they have the 5 characteristics of life\nMade of cells\nRequire nutrition\nexcretion (CO2)\nResponse (to light)\nReproduction.
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temperate or deciduous forest- forest or mountain environment
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B.  Tropical rain Forest.\n\nTemperate is north and south of subtropical/tropical.\n\nBoreal forest is coniferous forests.\n\nTundra is what you'd find near the arctic circle.
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Which Tropical Rainforest?  There is more than 1 you know.
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http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5479/
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Characteristics of living Organisms\n\n1.Organization - Living things are composed of one or more cells, which are the basic units of life. \n\n2.Metabolic Processes - Metabolism produces energy by converting nonliving material into cellular components (synthesis) and decomposing organic matter (catalysis). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life. \n\n3.Growth - Growth results from a higher rate of synthesis than catalysis. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter. \n\n4.Adaptation - Adaptation is the accommodation of a living organism to its environment. It is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity as well as the composition of matabolized substances, and external factors present. \n\n5.Responds to stimuli - A response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism when touched to complex reactions involving all the senses of higher animals. A response is often expressed by motion: the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun or an animal chasing its prey. \n\n6.Reproducing - The division of one cell to form two new cells is reproduction. Usually the term is applied to the production of a new individual (either asexually, from a single parent organism, or sexually, from two differing parent organisms), although strictly speaking it also describes the production of new cells in the process of growth.
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They live in tropical rainforests between elevations of 100-2300 feet.
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There is a great diversity among ants and their behaviors. They range in size from 2 to about 25 millimetres (about 0.08 to 1 inch). Their color may vary; most are red or black, but other colors can also be seen, including some tropical groups with a metallic lustre.\n\nAnts have colonized almost every landmass on Earth. They can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest; in the Amazon the combined weight of the ants is said to be four times larger than that of the tetrapods in the same area. It has also been estimated that the combined weight of all ants exceeds the weight of mankind
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According to the links attached:\n\nThe phenotype of an individual organism is either its total physical appearance and constitution or a specific manifestation of a trait, such as size, eye color, or behavior that varies between individuals.   This is the "outward, physical manifestation" of the organism. These are the physical parts, the sum of the atoms, molecules, macromolecules, cells, structures, metabolism, energy utilization, tissues, organs, reflexes and behaviors; anything that is part of the observable structure, function or behavior of a living organism.
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Rainfall and soil conditions and amount of sunlight, also amou nt of shade for some cacti. Also elevation.
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http://rainforest.care2.com/\n\nhttp://www.therainforestsite.com/\n\nhttp://www.thenonprofits.com/
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Rainforest occurs in the moist tropics and cooler temperate, high rainfall zones.
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Rainforests sure get a lot...hence their name!\nAlso, amazingly, deserts get a lot of flash floods!\nHope I helped
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Find the rainforests. Especially near the Equator. I assume you mean per unit area. Here is a list of specific places with extrordinarily high rainfall:\n\n WETTEST INHABITED PLACES \n(Rain fall in inches per year) \nBuenaventira, Colombia 267" \nMonrovia, Liberia 202" \nPagp Pago, American Samoa 198" \nMoulein, Burma (Myanmar 192" \nLae, Papua New Guinea 183" \nBaguio, Philippines180" \nSylhet, Bangladesht 178"
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761552810/Rain_Forest.html\n\nhttp://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/fcpage.php?fcpage=Indigenous+Knowledge&language=EN\n\nboth the above look useful
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Forests: lumberjack, hunter, ranger, charcoal burner, owner of rubber plantation, collector of plants,\n\nWild life: park ranger, hunter, photographer, safari guide, collector of wild food such as truffles, \n\nI hope this list helps a bit!