Climate
Temperatures stay the same the whole year round—about 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.
Around the equator, there are two rainy seasons with heavy rainfall — up to 10 metres. When you move away from the equator, it gets a bit drier in some months , but there are still more than 2 metres of rain a year.
The weather hardly changes from one day to the next. In the morning it is clear . The sun starts heating up the ground and warm, humid air starts to rise. In the afternoon, clouds get darker and there are thunderstorms for an hour or two before it starts to clear up again .
Most of the rain stays in the rainforest . It evaporates , creates clouds and comes down again.
Rainforest soils are not very fertile because the rain washes out most of the nutrients.
- clear up = to become sunny
- equator = line around the middle of the earth, which divides it in two halves
- evaporate = to change from liquid to gas
- fertile = able to produce a lot of crops and food
- hardly = here: not very much
- heavy = very strong
- humid = very wet
- nutrient = a chemical that gives plants what they need to grow
- rise = move up
- soil = the top part of the earth, on which plants grow