Interesting Facts
Layers of the Rainforest
What and where are Rainforests
Plants
Animals
100
The Amazon
The largest rainforest is...
100
4
How many layers do rainforests have?
100
They get a huge amount of rain per year.
We call these tall, dense jungles rainforests because...
100
Trees
The rainforest has more types of ___than any other area in the world.
100
Bengal Tiger, Orangutan, spider, monkey, jaguar, etc.
Name a mammal found in the rainforest.
200
Over half
Rainforests contain how much of the world's plants and animals?
200
Forest floor
The darkest layer where almost no plats grow.
200
Hot and humid
The rainforests climates are
200
Flowers
Many trees in rainforests can only be identified by their...
200
Boa constrictor, Anaconda, Gaboon Viper, etc.
Name a reptile found in the rainforest.
300
6 %
Rainforests cover what percent of the Earth's surface?
300
Emergent layer
The layer with the tallest trees...some of which reach 200 feet above the forest floor.
300
This region holds the world's 2nd largest rainforest.
Central Africa
300
The lack of sufficient light below the canopy.
Why do most rainforest trees have straight trunks that don't branch out until about 100 ft. or more?
300
Insects
___make up the largest single group of animals living in the rainforest.
400
Chocolate, sugar, cinnamon, rubber, medicine, pineapples
Name 3 common products rainforests produce.
400
Canopy layer
The primary layer of the forest.
400
Central America
This region was ENTIRELY covered with rainforests.
400
Rosy Periwinkle
A person with Lymphocytic leukemia has a 99% chance of going into remission because of this rainforest plant.
400
Bright colors, sharp patterns, loud vocalizations, diets heavy on fruit.
Name 2 adaptations common among rainforest animals.
500
6,000 acres or 4,000 football fields per hour
How much of the rainforests are disappearing? (hint: how many acres or football fields per ___)
500
Understory layer
The layer with a large concentration of insects.
500
Biome
The word we used to categorize rainforests as large geographical areas of distinctive plant and anial groups adapted to that area. (hint: other examples of these include desserts, grasslands, etc.)
500
water loss and freezing temperatures
2 reasons why most trees in the rainforest have thin bark. (hint: no reason to protect against...)
500
Prehensile tails
An adaptation of monkeys in the rainforest that allows them to balance better in the trees.
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