A temperate forest is a type of forest that can be found in the temperate zone, halfway between the tropical and boreal hemispheres. Only the boreal forest, which makes up over 33% of the world's forest area, is larger than it as the second-largest biome on Earth.
Tropical rainforests, also known as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforests, are those that grow in regions with a tropical rainforest climate, which means there is never a dry season and all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm.