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100

This is an adaptation of bats

What is the ability to survive on fruit/nectar, having long tongues with bristles, having large eyes, having a strong sense of smell, or echolocation?

100

This is the layer that has trees exposed to strong winds and has much drier air

What is the emergent layer? 

100

This is currently happening to research funding in the USA

What is the reduction of grants for scientific research? 

100

The definition of the word mutual is 

What is shared?

100

Most of the tropical rain-forests are located in 

What is near the equator? 
200

This is a type of butterfly that camouflages as dead leaves

What is the morpho butterfly?

200

The harpy eagle lives in this layer

What is the emergent layer? 

200

Nic Bishop went to go study in this country

What is Costa Rica? 

200

The definition of the word disperse is

What is to spread out? 

200

T or F: Half of all animal and plant species live in rain-forest ecosystems. 

What is true?

300
The most abundant mammal in the rain-forest

What are bats? 

300

The epiphyte lives in this layer

What is the understory? 

300

This is the adaptation that the snake-caterpillar from Costa Rica

What is the ability to puff up the front of its body to look like the head of a viper?

300

The definition of the word impenetrable is

What is to be impossible or very difficult to pass through?

300
An example of a sentence with an independent and dependent clause is

Answer will vary

400
This animal forms a relationship to mutually benefit the Brazil tree nut

What is the agouti? 

400

Fungi live in this layer

What is the forest floor? 

400

The country that Nic Bishop lived in when he was young

Papua New Guinea 

400

In the article we read, the definition of the word grants is 

What is free money that you don't have to pay back given by the government? 

400

The forest floor is almost bare of plants because

What is the lack of sunlight that reaches the forest floor? 
500
This is the class of animals that live on forest floors (Hint: insects such as millipedes and beetles) 

What are arthropods (animals with an outer shell but no backbone)? 

500

This is the layer that most of the rain-forest's plants and animals live in

What is the canopy? 

500

These are two consequences of reducing government spending for scientific research

Less breakthroughs in medicine, less advanced technology, less knowledge regarding the environment, and less careers in science

500

The definition of the word reinstate is

What is to do again or put something back in its former place?
500

The main idea of this passage is

What is "rain-forests have high biodiversity because of their different layers and all of their organisms have special adaptations to survive?"