Vocabulary
In the Rain Forest
Which Animal?
What, Why, or How?
Story Skills
100
Treetops....
What is a "canopy"?
100
The place an animal lives in the rain forest depends upon this.
What is the amount of sunlight it prefers?
100
It is how all the animals arguments are the same.
What is to persuade the man not to cut down the Kapok tree?
100
It is the author's purpose in writing this story.
What is to describe what would happen if all the trees were cut down in the rain forests?
100
A valid generalization about the temperature of rain forests is that they are ....
What is hot?
200
Something that has "slipped" away has....
What is "slithered"?
200
Bees are important in the rain forest because they do this.
What is pollinate trees and flowers?
200
This jaguar told the man that if he cut down the tree, all small animals and birds would die or flee the forest. This would affect the jaguar because he would be missing this.
What is his food source?
200
The author has the man take a nap during the story to make him think that...
What is that it was all a dream?
200
All living things depend on one another..can be said to be the story's.....
What is theme?
300
Powder from a flower is called this.
What is "pollen"?
300
In the rain forest, tree roots are important because they do this.
What is hold the soil in place?
300
It was the first animal to speak to the sleeping man.
What is boa constrictor?
300
It is the likely reason the author had the animals stay quiet when the man woke up from his nap.
What is to show how the forest would sound if all the trees were cut down?
300
The reader realizes this story is a fantasy because the animals are able to do this...
What is talk?
400
Scented...
What is "fragrant"?
400
It is the most likely reason that the man was planning to cut down the Kapok tree.
What is to sell the wood for money?
400
These animals stay near the tops of the trees in the canopy of the rain forest.
What are birds?
400
It is the most likely reason that the author had so many different animals in the selection.
What is to show how the loss of the Kapok tree would affect the lives of a variety of animals?
400
A line in the story states, "Please look upon us all with new eyes". This means...
What is to look at things differently?
500
A painting that is spotted with paint can be described as looking like this.
What is "dappled"?
500
It is the main reason that both people and animals need trees.
What is for the oxygen that trees make?
500
This animal hunts other smaller animals in the rain forest.
What is the jaguar?
500
"Where once there was life and beauty, only black, smoldering ruins remain..." is a line from the story that appeals to these two senses.
What is sight and smell?
500
From the map at the end of the selection we can tell that most rain forests are located....
What is near the equator?
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