Important Vocabulary
To move downward
What is descend?
Meg Lowman's job title
What is a scientist?
a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery or test a hypothesis
What is experiment?
A black or brown animal that is nocturnal
What is a bat?
The upper/top layer of leaves in the trees of the rainforest
What is the canopy?
To move upward
What is ascend?
In order to climb high Meg needs to be...
What are fearless and physically fit? (answers may vary)
To look at closely in order to observe/understand
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Meg is _______ the relationship between plants and insects in the rainforest
What is studying/examining?
A type of snake found in Blue Creek Rainforest
What is a viper?
Someone who works to preserve/save/study the rainforests/nature.
A variety of living things in an area; all living things
What is biodiversity?
Two examples of safety gear Meg wears when she climbs up into the canopy.
What are hard hat and safety harness (answers may vary)?
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Meg takes ____________ of "leaf-eating activity" in order to see how much of a leaf has been eaten over time
What are "snapshots"?
A small animal that resembles a gecko
The country the Blue Creek rainforest is in
Belize
To move at the same time in the same direction
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The iceskaters were ___________.
What is synchronized?
A process the begins with the letter "p"
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"Meg ______ plant specimans when she folds the flowers and leaves carefully in a newspaper."
What is pressing?
Two types of this animal are spider and howler
What is a monkey?
a stage/stand in a fixed position (in canopy/trees)
What is an observation platform?
To split apart.
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The pathway ________ in two ways.
What is diverged?
Meg Lowman believes that _______ is the "machinery that runs the earth."
What is science?
What is exclusion experiment?
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"Within a 16-foot square there can be upward of _____ different species of plants"
A plant native to tropical and subtropical America.
Mrs. Knapp showed us one.
What is a bromeliad?