Layers
The four layers of the rainforest.
What are emergent, canopy, under-story, and forest floor?
This animal moves so slowly that algae grows on their fur.
What is a sloth?
The Venus flytrap captures this.
What are insects?
This makes their own food.
What are producers?
This is where the Amazon Rainforest is located.
What is South America or Brazil?
This layer is home to the most animals in the rain forest.
What is the canopy layer?
This is a nickname for a sloth.
What is "eyes"?
The Venus fly trap has this many trigger hairs.
What are six trigger hairs?
This only eats animals or meat.
What is a carnivore?
Tropical rainforests are located near this.
What is the equator?
Very few plants live in this layer and it receives little sunlight.
What is the forest floor?
Red-eyed tree frogs use their red eyes to defend themselves against this.
What are predators?
The Venus flytrap is this type of plant.
What is carnivorous?
This only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
A place where animals and plants living there depend on each other in order to survive.
What is an ecosystem?
Tall trees called evergreens reach this layer.
What is the emergent layer?
This insect has a wingspan of 8-10 inches.
What is a Blue Morpho Butterfly?
The Kapok tree has these types of thorns.
What are conical thorns?
This eats plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Plants need these three things in order to make their own food.
What is sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
This layer is very dense and provides a natural camouflage for many of the animals that live here.
What is the understory layer?
The red-eyed tree frog blends in with their surroundings by doing this.
What is camouflage?
The Kapok tree sheds all its leaves during the dry season, meaning they are this type of tree.
What is deciduous?
This breaks down dead or decaying organisms
What is a decomposer?
The process in which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?