Vocabulary
Rain Forest Roles
The Story/The Map
Cause & Effect
Miscellaneous
100
This term describes the uppermost layer of branches in a forest.
What is canopy?
100
These animals are important because they help pollinate the rain forest.
What are the bees?
100
According to the diagram on page 377 of the story, identify the layers of the understory and the layer above the canopy.
What is the layers of the understory are the herb layer, the shrub layer, and the middle layer and the layer above the canopy is the emergent layer?
100
This event caused the man to become tired.
What is cutting down the Kapok tree?
100
The genre of “The Great Kapok Tree” is...
What is fantasy?
200
This term describes how a snake moves.
What is slithered?
200
Tree roots are important because they…
What is they keep the soil in place or keep the soil from washing away?
200
Using the map on pages 376 & 377, describe what the dark and light green colorings show.
What is it shows that some areas used to have rain forests, but they are not all still there?
200
According to the jaguar, this will happen if the Kapok tree is cut down.
What is he will have no dinner or nothing to eat?
200
Define the genre fantasy.
What is a made-up story in which the characters do things that you would not expect them to do in real life?
300
Explain what the phrase “feast your eyes” means.
What is “to delight in seeing” or “to enjoy looking at?”
300
When woodcutters cut down the trees in a forest, the soil…
What is it washes away or becomes like a desert?
300
Describe the purpose of the diagram on page 377 of your text.
What is What is to show the layers of the rain forest and the animals that live in those layers?
300
According to the frog, this will happen if the Kapok tree is cut down.
What is the animals will become homeless or they will have no home?
300
The author probably wrote this story to…
What is to describe what happens in a rain forest when the trees are cut down?
400
Identify the suffix in the word “wondrous” and give the definition for the word.
What is -ous means “full of” so wondrous means “full of wonder?”
400
The trees produce this that humans and animals need to live.
What is oxygen?
400
Describe why the author included the map on pages 376 & 377 of the story.
What is to help better understand the effects of people cutting down the trees in the rain forest?
400
According to the three-toed sloth, this will disappear if the rain forest is cut down.
What is beauty?
400
Provide a brief (one-sentence) summary of the story.
What is a worker who was to cut down the Kapok tree discovers that it is an important part of the rain forest?
500
Identify the suffix in the word “homeless” and give the definition for the word.
What is the suffix is -less, which means “without,” so the word homeless must mean “without a home?”
500
Describe why the jaguar has spots or is dappled.
What is they help him blend into his environment or so he can sneak up on his dinner?
500
Provide a theme for the story.
What is saving the rain forest is important for our future?
500
Describe the events (more than one) that would cause the forest to become like a desert.
What is 1) people cutting down trees, 2) no roots to hold in the soil, and 3) the soil is washed away by heavy rains?
500
Describe at least one event from the story that could not happen in real life.
(Answers may vary) What is the animals were talking to a sleeping man?
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