Amazon
rainforest climate is hot and humid, like in other
tropical
rainforests.
High air temperatures and small seasonal changes are what make it
tropical.
High amounts of
rain is what makes
it rainforest.
There are tropical forests in rain shadow where it doesn't rain enough
for these forests to be rainforests. They are simply called tropical
forests, sometimes dry tropics.
And there are rainforests in cooler climates, which makes them
subtropical and temperate
rainforests.
In a tropical rainforest, like this of Amazon, the temperatures are
usually between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius, and rainfall is above 1500mm
a year in average.
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