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5 themes of geography
Climates
Animals of the rainforest
Storms
Layers of the rainforest
100
considers how people affect their environment
What is Human Environment Interaction?
100
wet and warm climate
What is tropical?
100
meat eating fish
What are piranhas?
100
intense rainstorm
What are hurricanes?
100
most animals live here. most action takes place here
What is upper canopy?
200
mix of human and non human features at a given location
What is place?
200
cold and dry
What is Polar?
200
a type of boa, one of the word largest snakes
What are anacondas?
200
more dangerous than hurricanes, mostly occur in U.S.A, swirling funnel of wind, that reach 200 mph
What are tornados?
200
almost bare. covered with fallen trees and leaves , these rot and provide nutrients for other plants to grow
What is forest floor?
300
grouping places together that have something in common
What is Region?
300
received little to no rain
What is dry?
300
the fish can swim at the surface of the water and watch for predators above and below water at the same time
What is anableps?
300
the shaking of the ground
What are earthquakes?
300
make up the top of the rainforest. some trees poke out of the upper canopy.
What is emergent trees?
400
explores how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
What is movement?
400
most seasonal change
What is temperate?
400
its head is a big triangle with a pointy nose
What is matamata turtle?
400
raging storms
What are typhoons?
400
where young trees and shrubs grow. Plants can't grow very big, because the upper canopy blocks the sun.
What is understory?
500
precise location
What is relative?
500
change in elevation
What is Highland?
500
not as big as an anaconda, but it is poisonous
What is bushmaster viper?
500
occurs when two air masses, of different temperatures come together
What are tropical cyclones?
500
full of many different species of animals. Most biodiversity in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?