This is an 8th grade informational text about the biodiversity, different types of living organisms both plant and animal, living in the Amazon rainforest in South America. While reading, students should determine a central idea of the text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. Students should also analyze how the text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License).