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2007-03-09 04:33:03 · 3 answers · asked by Lara Croft 3 in Environment
A rain forest is a forested area that receives large amounts of rainfall. The rain forest may be tropical as in Brazil or temperate as in Washington State. Jungles are found in some tropical areas and differentiate from rain forests in that they have, in addition to trees, low growing flora which, at times, makes travel through a jungle very difficult.
2007-03-09 04:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A rainforest is any forest that has a certain amount of annual rainfall, and the rain falls for every season of the year. For example, there are temperate rainforests on the west coasts of Canada and northern Oregon and Washington State.
A jungle is a tropical (hot all year) rainforest. Even if a rainforest is in the tropics, if it's high in latitute (on a mountain) it is cold enough not to be a jungle but a high altitude rain forest.
2007-03-09 12:43:54 · answer #2 · answered by charmedchiclet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's just the "in" name for them now. Just like wetlands used to be called swamps and human military resources used to be called soldiers.
2007-03-09 12:38:06 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋