layers of the rainforest
This is the top layer of the rainforest where the tallest trees grow.
What is the emergent layer?
This slow-moving animal spends most of its life hanging upside down.
What is a sloth?
Chocolate comes from this rainforest plant.
What is the cacao tree?
Rainforests get at least this many inches of rain per year.
what is 80 inches
The cutting down of trees in the rainforest is called this.
What is deforestation?
Most animals like monkeys and sloths live in this rainforest layer.
What is the canopy?
This big cat is the top predator of the Amazon rainforest.
What is the Jaguar?
This plant is used to make rubber.
What is the rubber tree?
The largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
People cut down trees mainly for this reason.
What is farming/ agriculture?
This dark, damp layer is home to jaguars and large snakes
What is the understory?
This colorful bird is known for its large, curved beak.
What is a Toucan?
This rainforest plant is often used in medicines and healing.
What are medicinal plants?
This continent is home to both the Congo and Madagascar rainforests.
What is Africa?
Protecting rainforests helps reduce this gas that causes climate change.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This layer has very little sunlight and is where decomposition happens quickly.
Forest Floor
This insect is known for carrying leaves much larger than its body.
What is an Ant?
The rainforest produces a lot of this due to the fact that there are a lot of trees.
Oxygen
Rainforests are mainly located near this line of latitude.
What is the equator?
This is one way students can help protect the rainforest.
What is recycling, reducing paper use or raising awareness?
This layer makes up the dense “roof” that blocks most of the sunlight.
What is the canopy?
This reptile, found in the Amazon, is one of the largest snakes in the world.
What is the anaconda?
This common fruit originally came from the rainforest and grows in bunches.
What is the banana?
Over this percent of the world’s species live in the rainforest.
What is 50%?
This organization or method helps protect large areas of rainforest land.
What is creating national parks/ reserves or supporting conservation groups?