Layers of the Rainforest
I am the bottom layer of the rainforest
What is the forest/ground floor?
True or False: About 25% of all medicines come from rainforest plants.
What is true?
Name two animals that live in the rainforest.
Answers will vary.
This is the way the rainforest got its name.
What is that it rains almost every single day?
What is warm, hot, humid, and rainy?
I am the layer above the forest floor.
What is the understory?
This type of animal only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
A sloth lives in this layer of the rainforest.
What is the canopy?
This is the invisible line on Earth that rainforests are close to.
What is the equator?
This means cutting down of large areas of trees in the rainforest
What is deforestation?
I am the layer above the understory.
This tree grows cocoa beans that are used to make chocolate.
What is a Cacao Tree?
This animal has brightly colored skin that doesn't need to camouflage because its skin is poinsonous.
What is a poison dart frog?
The forest floor is not very sunny because
What is the canopy shades the ground?
Definition of nocturnal
What are animals that sleep during the day and hunt at night?
I am the upper mist layer of the rainforest. Only a few very tall trees reach this layer.
What is the emergent layer?
I am the biggest tree in the rainforest.
What is the Kapok Tree?
This animal has a brightly colored beak that is 10 inches long.
What is a toucan?
These are reasons why it is important to take care of the rainforest.
What is that it provides food, medicines, and products we use?
True or false: Rainforests produce about 40% of the world's oxygen.
What is true?
I am an anteater and I live in this layer of the rainforest.
What is the forest floor?
Name three fruits that are grown in the Amazon Rainforest.
Answers include: What are bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangos, lemons, acai?
I howl so loud that I can be heard two miles away.
What is a howler monkey?
The biggest rainforest in South America.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
List three things the rainforest provides for humans.
What is shelter, medicines, water, fruits/food, oxygen, and minerals?