Rainforest Vocabulary
This word means "to come out into view."
What is emerge?
The prefix eco- means this type of environment.
What is nature or the environment?
This term describes the long-term warming of Earth’s temperature.
What is global warming?
A word with eco- that means “the community of living things and their environment.”
What is ecosystem?
The opposite of teeming, this word describes land that is dry and lifeless.
What is barren?
The uppermost layer of trees in a rainforest.
What is the canopy?
The prefix hab- means this, as in habitat.
What is home?
The part of the rainforest where the tallest trees break through the canopy.
What is the emergent layer?
A word with hab- that means “a place where an animal or plant lives.”
What is habitat?
The suffix -tect, as in protect or architect, means this.
What is cover or build?
Gases like carbon dioxide and methane that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What are the greenhouse gases?
The prefix pro- means this, as in protect or promote.
What is for or forward?
These gases cause the greenhouse effect when too many build up in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
A word with vive that means “to stay alive.”
What is survive?
This word describes when something happens in a huge or overpowering way.
What is overwhelmingly?
This phrase describes how those gases trap heat and warm the planet.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The root vive- means this, as in survive or revive.
What is life or live?
When plants lose water and start to die, they do this.
What is wither?
A word with pro- and -tect that means “to keep something safe.”
What is protect?
A word with eco- that means “the study of how living things interact with their environment.”
What is ecology?
This term describes a place that is full of life and activity-like a healthy rainforest.
What is teeming?
The prefix equ- means this, as in equal or equator.
What is equal or even?
The sunlight that shines through the canopy in spots or patches is described with this word.
What is dappled?
A word with equ- that means “an imaginary line around the middle of Earth.”
What is equator?
The type of monkey featured in "Kids Save the Rainforest."
What are Titi monkeys?