Emergent
The type of tree seen in the Emergent layer.
What is a Kapok Tree?
The percentage of sunlight that is blocked by this layer.
What is 80 percent?
The spots on this animal are called rosettes.
What is a jaguar?
Many things breakdown in this layer because it's hot, wet, and dark.
What is decay?
This is a grass eaten by pandas in China.
What is bamboo?
The shape of the buttresses of leaves.
What is umbrella?
Their scales are different shapes and work as armor.
What is an iguana?
This creature is extremely poisonous although they are not born that way.
What is a poison dart frog?
These insects eat the fungus they place on the leaves.
What is a leaf cutter ant?
The largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon?
What are waxy/sun-block?
They can live for 20 years and are known for their bright colorful bills.
What are toucans?
Many species use this to blend into their environment.
What is camouflage?
Many of the predators here are awake during the night and asleep during the day.
What is nocturnal?
The name of the river that Andres Ruzo studied.
What is the Boiling River?
What are howler monkeys?
An example of vegetation seen at this level.
What is fern?
Here the weather is very ____ and ______.
What is hot and wet?
The Greek root for water.
What is hydra?
The reason that many animals have brightly colored appearance.
What is to warn predators?
The reason why animals are able to live high into the emergent layer.
What is light-weight?
The process of converting sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The percentage of sunlight that gets through the canopy.
It has brightly colored wings on one side and dull, dark colors on the other to blend into their surroundings.
What is a blue morpho?
The term for an animal that eats both meat and plants.
What is an omnivore?