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Use these pictures from the Encyclopaedia Britannica to learn about rainforests. There are several different kinds of rainforests. Temperate rainforests can be found in cooler parts of the world, such as in the north-western part of the United States and in southern Australia. Monsoon rainforests ha More…ve a dry season and trees that shed their leaves each year. They grow in south-eastern Asia. Montane rainforests, or cloud forests, grow in mountainous regions. Tropical rainforests occur around the equator in the hot, wet region called the tropics.