Animals
This is an adaptation of bats
What is the ability to survive on fruit/nectar, having long tongues with bristles, having large eyes, having a strong sense of smell, or echolocation?
This is the layer that has trees exposed to strong winds and has much drier air
What is the emergent layer?
This is currently happening to research funding in the USA
What is the reduction of grants for scientific research?
The definition of the word mutual is
What is shared?
Most of the tropical rain-forests are located in
This is a type of butterfly that camouflages as dead leaves
What is the morpho butterfly?
The harpy eagle lives in this layer
What is the emergent layer?
Nic Bishop went to go study in this country
What is Costa Rica?
The definition of the word disperse is
What is to spread out?
T or F: Half of all animal and plant species live in rain-forest ecosystems.
What is true?
What are bats?
The epiphyte lives in this layer
What is the understory?
This is the adaptation that the snake-caterpillar from Costa Rica
What is the ability to puff up the front of its body to look like the head of a viper?
The definition of the word impenetrable is
What is to be impossible or very difficult to pass through?
Answer will vary
What is the agouti?
Fungi live in this layer
What is the forest floor?
The country that Nic Bishop lived in when he was young
Papua New Guinea
In the article we read, the definition of the word grants is
What is free money that you don't have to pay back given by the government?
The forest floor is almost bare of plants because
What are arthropods (animals with an outer shell but no backbone)?
This is the layer that most of the rain-forest's plants and animals live in
What is the canopy?
These are two consequences of reducing government spending for scientific research
Less breakthroughs in medicine, less advanced technology, less knowledge regarding the environment, and less careers in science
The definition of the word reinstate is
The main idea of this passage is
What is "rain-forests have high biodiversity because of their different layers and all of their organisms have special adaptations to survive?"