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This river runs through the Amazon Rainforest and is the second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This butterfly’s wings appear blue because of light reflecting off microscopic scales.
What is the blue morpho butterfly?
In this silly story, a strange creature causes chaos in the county.
What is Wingdingdilly?
This wildlife expert became famous for teaching people about dangerous animals while shouting “Crikey!”
Who is Steve Irwin?
This rainforest layer receives the most sunlight.
What is the emergent layer?
This ancient tropical rainforest in Australia is considered older than the Amazon Rainforest.
What is the Daintree Rainforest?
This rainforest predator is actually a melanistic jaguar or leopard.
What is a panther?
In this book, animals beg humans not to cut down their rainforest home.
What is The Great Kapok Tree?
This conservationist wrote Silent Spring to warn people about harmful pesticides.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Scientists estimate more than half of Earth’s species live in this biome.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The Congo Rainforest stretches across this continent.
What is Africa?
This African rainforest animal has stripes like a zebra but is related to giraffes.
What is an okapi?
This book teaches readers about loud rainforest monkeys living high in the canopy.
What is Meet the Howlers!?
This naturalist spent years studying chimpanzees in Africa.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This process happens when forests are cut down faster than they can regrow.
What is deforestation?
This Southeast Asian country is known for its tropical rainforests and bears
What is Malaysia?
This giant parasitic flower found in Southeast Asian rainforests smells like rotting meat.
What is Rafflesia
Seymour Simon wrote this nonfiction book about these powerful rainforest primates.
What is Gorilla?
This U.S. president helped create national parks and protect wildlife.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Rainforests are called the “lungs of the Earth” because they help produce this gas.
What is oxygen?
This country contains the largest portion of the Amazon Rainforest.
What is Brazil?
This fan-shaped palm grows in the Daintree Rainforest and has enormous pleated leaves.
What is a fan palm?
This story follows a rainforest animal who surprises a family by arriving at their home.
What is The Sloth Who Came to Stay?
This ocean explorer and filmmaker helped people learn about life under the sea.
Who is Jacques Cousteau?
Many rainforest trees have these wide roots to help support them in shallow soil.
What are buttress roots?