The Rainforest
Dense covering formed by the leafy branches at the top of tall rainforest trees.
What is the Canopy?
A person (relative) from whom one is descended
What is ancestor?
Proof or support from text.
What is evidence?
To signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the head or hand
What is to beckon?
Tropical rainforests are thought to contain around what percentage of all the Earth’s species of plants and animals?
What is 50%
Type of plant that contains editable seed or grain is called this.
What is millet
Any written word; a story, an article or information book are examples of this.
What is text?
The study of how living things interact with their environment
What is an Ecologist?
The process of cutting down large areas of trees in the rainforest?
What is deforestation?
Protecting and preserving natural resources in the rainforest environment.
What is Conservation?
When determining the meaning of unknown words, look for these in the text.
What are Context Clues?
An act or instance of discussing, or talking about a topic
What are a Discussion?
Plants in the rainforest have provided about 70% of the medicines used for curing this disease.
What is Cancer?
Many different living species of plants and animals in an area.
What is biodiversity?
The narrator's position in relation to a story being told.
What is Point of View?
To replant trees on land
What is Reforestation?
There are 4 layers in the rainforest, the top layer is called this level?
What is the Emergent Level?
This movement, led by Wangari Maathai, helped save the rainforest by planting millions of new trees.
What is the Green Belt Movement?
3 types of figurative language studied Unit 2.
What are Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms?
Guilty of dishonest practices, such as bribery
What is Corrupt?