Labels:book | bulletin board | chat room | earth | plant | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: Learning Extra Layers of Life The Layers of the Tropics (page 2 of 3) Distinauishing the differences between the vegetative layers of the tropics. Canopy Layer Located just beneath the emergent layer tree trunks (75- -90 feet above the forest floor) branch into umbrellas of trees that "rub shoulders" with each ather he canopy layer found most mature forests The closely spaced trees with flat spreading crowns form a dense layer of vegetation 100 feet deep he heavy layer of plant life blocks the rainfall. Water reaches the forest floor by rolling down branches leaves and trunks or as fine spray The canopy forms the body of the tropics, shadi ing shrubs and small saplings found below Holes in this layer provide light gaps that encourage other plants below grow Rain forest plants quard against ...
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