Common Terms
Plant Life
Lowland Evergreen Rainforest
Semi-Evergreen Rainforest
Peat Swamp Forest
100
What percent of the earth's land does the rainforest occupy?
What is 7%
100
What part of the tree makes up 20-50% of the tree's biomass?
What is small roots
100
What sets the structure of this type of rainforest apart from the others?
What is complexity.
100
What is the main factor contributing to the frequency and distribution of these types of forests?
What is moisture stress.
100
Why was peat initially formed?
What is glacial melting.
300
What two characteristics lead the rainforest to have optimal growing conditions?
What is an abundance of precipitation and year round warmth.
300
What is the most predominant form of life in the rain forests?
What is trees.
300
Why might ground vegetation be sparse?
What is a lack of sunlight.
300
What is different about the bark in the semi-evergreen rainforest compared to others?
What is thicker and less cauliflory.
300
Which part of the peat swamp forest contains valuable timber materials?
What is the outer forest.
500
What event led to the increased use of tropical rain forests (generally speaking)?
What is the industrial revolution
500
I am a plant that grows on other plants, uses moisture from the air and only soil that collects from the wind. I am found in the tropics. What am I?
What is an epiphyte
500
Bryophytes are frequent but epiphytes are rare. True or false?
What is false.
500
The Eastern and Southern Amazon do not have the rainforest climate, but semi-evergreen rain forests are still found here. For what reason is this?
What is deep soil.
500
How deep is the peat at the deepest point?
What is 13 meters deep.
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