Adaptations
Coloring or pattern that helps an animal blend in to its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
Canopy Layer
What is is the layer that forms an umbrella over the other layers where most plants and animals live?
Hornbill bird
What is a bird with a hollow beak and extra neck vertebrae to uphold its extra large bill
A plant adaptation for plants on the forest floor and in the understudy to ensure they get enough sunlight
What is large leaves
These animals only eat leaves and plants
What is a primary consumer (herbivore)?
A harmless animal looks like a harmful animal in order to protect itself and not be eaten
What is mimicry
Howler Monkey
What is a primate who's loud calls can be heard throughout the jungle to attract a mate or communicate to its troupe?
What are climbing woody vines that drape the rainforest trees called?
What are Lianas
These animals are the top of the food chain
What is a tertiary consumer (carnivore)?
When an animal hunts and eats other animals for food
What is a predator
Forest Floor layer
What is the layer that has almost no plants and hardly any sun reaches it?
These plants live on other plants, mostly tree trunks and branches. This allows them to get closer to sunlight.
What are air plants
These animals hunt and are hunted. They eat plants and animals
What is a secondary consumer (omnivore)?
A behavior an animal begins its life with to help it survive
What is instinct
Understory Layer
What is a layer where little sunshine reaches this area so the plants have to grow larger leaves to reach the sunlight?
How have forest trees adapted to cope with the exceptionally high rainfall?
What are Drip Tips
Uses the sun to make its food
What is a producer
Fancy word for many different living things
Biodiversity
What is the 5th layer
There is no 5th layer in the Tropical rain forest
Palm Civet
What is a small cat-like creature that eats both plants and animals and lives in the Southest Asian rainforests?
These massive ridges (sometimes up to 30 feet tall) are at the base of very tall trees. They grow up out of the soil before blending into the base to soak up nutrients from the soil
What are buttresses
The trophic level of an Indonesian Rat Snake
What is tertiary consumer?