Characteristics of the forest floor
Give two adjectives that describe the forest floor.
What is dark and humid?
What is another name for the Understory Layer?
What is the Strata?
What plants live in the Forest Floor?
What is what are darkness loving plants such as mushrooms and fungi?
An Okapi lives on the forest floor which is home to many plants. What is the diet of an Okapi?
What is their diet consits of over 100 specieces of plants?
This habitat looks blue from up above and covers more than 70 percent of Earths surface.
What is the ocean habitat?
The Forest Floor is the ____________ floor.
What is the lowest floor?
Describe the Understory Layer of the rainforest
Option 1: What is has little light?
Option 2: What is has shrubs, bushes, young tress, and climbing plants?
Option 3: What is Camofluage is important?
Option 4: What is Humid and Damp?
Describe the tree trunks in the Understory layer.
What is tree trunks in this layer come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, thickness, textures, and colors?
Camoflauge is important in the Understory Layer. Why is it good that Jaguars live in this layer?
What is because Jaguars fur keeps them camoflauged?
This habitat has plants known as cacti or a cactus.
What is the desert?
The main job of this layer is decomposition, or recycling of ____________
What is microorganisms?
What mainly keeps animals alive?
What is Humidity, Humidity keeps animals alive?
Why do the tree trunks come in different colors?
What is because of the presence of lower plants like mosses, lichens, and fungi that are attatched to the trunks and branches of trees?
How does a getkos large, flattened toe pads with sticky scales on their undersides help Getcos survive in the Understory layer of the rainforest?
What is they help them grip onto the smooth tree trunks.
What is the Polar or Arctic?
Why is this layer compared to a giant compost pile?
What is breaks down dead plants?
What percent of sunlight makes its way to the Understory?
What is 2 to 15%?
Where does the term "Climbing plant" come from?
What is climbing plants begin to climb up in the Understory until enough sunlight is present?
What do Gorilla's do at night before bed?
What is they make a new bed out of leaves and branches?
I am taking a walk and I see Leaf Cutter Ants, A Gorilla, Tree Frogs, and Chimpanzee. What habitat am I in?
What is the Rainforest?
What are some effects of the forest floor being the darkest layer of the rainforest?
Option 1: What is it is hard for plants to grow?
Option 2: What is plants will die?
Option 3: What is lack of sunlight?
What is the effect of this layer having little to no seasonal changes?
What is insects like mosquitos can successfully breed all year long?
How does a strangler fig plant survive in the Forest Floor?
What is high up in the canopy, the seeds sprout, sending long roots to the ground where the developing tree gets water and nutrients?
Why is the understory a great place for animals like frogs to live?
What is they cannot survive if their skin dries out?
It took me a while to climb, but I finally made it to the top or the peak. What habitat am I in?
What is the mountains?