30 million different insects in the rainforest
By: Paul Rockett ; illustrated by Mark Ruffle
Contributors: Ruffle, Mark, illustrator
Series: The big countdown -- 2; Big countdown -- 2.
Publisher: Franklin Watts; Franklin Watts Ltd; Hachette Children's Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781445126722; 9781445147390
Subjects: Forest insects; Miscellanea; Juvenile literature; Rain forest animals
Other titles: Thirty million different insects in the rainforest
Description: You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you count the animal species found in the rainforest or the fish in the River Amazon? Find out all about the rainforest, including its extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, its tribal people, its layered structure, its role as an oxygen producer and why we need to protect it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 30) and index.

9-11.

Key Stage 2.
Table of contents: title: Counting down the rainforest; title: 30 million different insects in the rainforest; title: 8,936,400 km² of tropical rainforest; title: 700 thousand tribal people in Brazil; title: 23,483 football pitches destroyed each day; title: The Amazon river is 6,400 km long; title: 3,000 edible fruits; title: 260 different species of monkey; title: 137 plant, animal, and insect species die each eay; title: 88% humidity; title: 28% of the world's oxygen; title: 15-year life span of the poison dart frog; title: Four layers of the rainforest.