Tropical Rain Forest's is characterized by broadleaf evergreen tree forming a closed canopy, an abundance of vine's and epiphte's. The largest area's of tropical Rain Forest are in the amazon basin of South America in the congo basin of and in other lowland equatorial regions of Africa and on both the mainland and the Island's off southeast Asia, where they are especially abundant on Sumata and new guinea. Temperate rain forest's, growing in higher latitude regions having wet, maritime climate's are less extensive than those of the tropics but include some of the most valuable timber in the world. Rain Forest's cover less than six percent of the earth's total land surface. Researched by Shane O Connor Turtles Turtles are reptiles from the order of chelonia.
Turtles have a shell of usually fused, long plates covered by large horny scales.
A turtles size is conventionally measured by the length of the upper shell called the carapace or the lower shell called the plastron in a straight line from front to rear. The earliest fossil remains of shelled vertebrates recognized as turtles are from the triassic period. Turtles have gone essentially unchanged in appearance since that time. Turtles in temperate regions hibernate during colder periods of the year. Turtles as a group are omnivorous, eating both plant and animal matter, living or dead.