Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — Social Studies STD 7 — Question

Tropical rain forests are also called tropical evergreen forest. These thick forest occur in the regions near equator and close to the tropics. These regions are hot and receives heavy rainfall throughout the year. As there in so particular dry season the trees do not shed their leaves altogether this is the reason they are called evergreen.

The thick canopies of the closely spaced trees do not allow the sunlight to penetrate inside the forest even in the daytime.

Examples of tropical evergreen forest are hardwood trees like Rosewood, ebony and mahogany.