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The types of tree species in a typically 4 square mile patch of rainforest
What is 750?
The dense layer that consists of the branches of trees and their leaves (about twenty feet thick) and houses the most species of the rainforest
What is the canopy?
The snake with the largest fangs
What is a gaboon viper?
The ability of an organism to be adept at adapting to its environment
What is adaptablity?
The largest rainforest in the world
Rainforests cover this much of the planet’s land surface
What is 6%?
The second lowest layer of the rainforest, which is characterized by young trees and low-lying vegetation in a leafy, dark, and damp world that receives around 5-10% of sunlight
What is the understory?
A lizard with “plumes’ and the ability to climb and walk on water
What is a basilisk lizard?
The ability to live in water and on land
What is amphibious?
The rainforests of the second-largest island in the world, which is located in Oceania, and house the many species of Birds-of-Paradise
What is the New Guinean lowland rainforest?
The amount of rain a rainforest gets per year (at the extreme)
What is 200 inches?
The lowest layer of the rainforest, which is the darkest, dampest, is coated with ancient plants and decomposers, and has the most extreme low-light conditions and receives less than 5% of sunlight
What is the forest floor?
The helmet-like bony protrusion on the top of the head on cassowaries
What is a casque?
An appendage eminating from the anterior of animals that assists in climbing and is used as an extra limb
What is a prehensile tail?
What is Sundraland?
The length it a raindrop travels to the forest floor from the canopy in a rainforest
10 minutes
The layer that consists of the very tallest trees, their tops, and recives the most sunlight
What is the emergent layer?
A small animal that has the largest proportionate eggs of any mammal
What is a tarsier?
Long and pointy leaves that are tapered to prevent accumulation of water on plants
What are drip tips?
The rainforest where chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas live
The Congo rainforest
The rainforest is home to this much of the planet’s species
What is 50%?
The most obscure and overlooked layer of the rainforest that is not visible to the naked eye
What is soil?
The smallest lizard in the world
What is a Brookesia chameleon?
When species reseemble their enviroments to blend in and avoid attention from other species (e.g.; sloths and their algae-coated fur)
What is background matching?
The oldest rainforest in the world
What is the Daintree rainforest?