Amazon-g Facts
Of the four layers, (emergent, canopy, understory, and __), this layer lives in perpetual darkness
Forest Floor
Covering across 9 countries and roughly the same area as Australia, this is the largest Rainforest in the world
The Amazon (60% in Brazil, 13% in Peru, Colombia 10%, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela)
This type of animal uses its HUGE ears as fans to cool it down
Elephant
The Amazon is home to the Goliath birdeater ____. The largest of its kind
Tarantula
Due to dense tropical plant life, it can take up to THIS long for a rain droplet to hit the forest floor (closest guess wins)
10 minutes
A) Alligators
B) Crocodiles
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A or B
E) wut
D. Caimans in the Amazon are relatives of gators and crocs
The Congo
This animal uses its BRIGHT colors to scare away predators. It's a sign to help us know that this animal is poisonous (Hint: they're sticky and climb trees)
Poison Dart Frog
Known typically for their blue-ish hue (or grey), this type of animal found exclusively in the Amazon is actually pink
Pink River Dolphins
One quarter of this key element to modern society is derived and produced from plants in the Amazon
Modern Medicine
Second in length as the longest River, the Amazon stretches 6,840 km. Martin Strel swam its entire length in this many days (best guess wins)
66 days at 10 hours a day
Boasting over 4,000 species of Orchids, this forest resides in a country known for cannibalism
New Guinea Forest
This animal moves so slowly that moss can grow on their skin!
Sloth
Emitting shocks 7 times stronger than the typical household outlet, this animal mostly hunts at night in the Amazon rivers and is mostly blind
Electric Eels (which are not eels, but actually knifefish)
Opposite to Condensation, this process within trees draws moisture into the air
Transpiration
Named for a creature of Greek mythology, this is the largest of all birds in the Amazon
Harpy Eagle
Its name means "land which cannot grow rice" in the Iban language due to acidic, sandy soil. This rainforest is located between the Indian Ocean and the Bali Sea (country name works too)
Sundaland Rainforest (Indonesia / Malaysia)
This pretty flying bug tastes with its feet
Butterfly
As part of a manhood rite of passage, the Sateré-Mawé, an Indigenous group living in the Amazon wear gloves woven with this animal, whose sting is said to feel like being shot
Bullet ants
The mycorrhizal fungi form a "wood wide web" for this purpose
To share resources and communicate
This organism invades the body of a Carpenter ant, seizing control of its motor functions and eventually unalive-ing it
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a fungus
Giant rats that can split coconuts with their teeth have been found in this forest residing in the same place as the home of the Marovo Lagoon (Hint, named shared with an Israelite King)
Solomon Islands Forest
Some types of this slippery, fork-tongued animal can flatten their body to glide in the sky! ...Gliding further than Ethan can throw a disc golf frisbee :(
Snakes
The call of this animal could be heard from here (Calle Mayor) all the way to the PV Mall
Howler Monkey
Phosphorus in the Amazon forest soil is washed away from rain and floods, but in equivalent amounts, it is replenished by phosphorus rich dust coming from this area of the world
The Sahara Desert (or Northern Africa)