Animals
This colorful bird did the narrator love and is pictured on the book cover.
What is a parrot?
The topmost trees that can grow up to 200 feet tall are called this.
What is the emergent layer?
The narrator's mom is a scientist who studies plants; this is her job title.
What is a botanist?
Cutting down trees to use for wood or to clear land is called this.
What is logging?
A food chain shows how living things get their ______.
Answer: What is food?
These loud, reddish-brown monkeys make sounds you can hear up to eight miles away.
What are howler monkeys?
This layer, below the emergent trees, forms a dense cover and gets lots of sunlight.
What is the canopy?
These colorful plants can hold water and create tiny ecosystems for frogs and insects.
What are bromeliads?
The narrator saw huge patches of brown and light-green where trees had been removed. This is caused by clearing land for farms and ranches and by these companies.
What are logging and mining companies?
In the book's simple food chain diagram, insects eat these, which are the starting producers.
What are leaves or plants?
he narrator hoped to see this big spotted cat in the rain forest.
What is a Jaguar?
This layer is hot and humid and has small trees, flowers, and vines.
What is the understory?
Farmers grow these trees for a tasty treat that comes from beans used to make chocolate.
What are cacao trees?
People burn large areas to make room for farming and cows; this process also causes this big problem that washes soil away.
What is water erosion?
In that same chain, these animals eat insects, and then snakes eat these animals.
What are frogs?
This small animal rides on leaves the leaf cutter ants carry to keep flies away.
What are hitchhiker ants?
This lowest layer has ferns, dead leaves, and fallen trees.
What is the forest floor?
This tree's nuts are an important crop; people harvest its large pods (two-word answer).
What is the brazil-nut tree?
According to the book, how much forest is cut down each second (one common comparison given)?
What is one-and-one-half acres (about the size of a football field)?)
The narrator explains that if one plant or animal is removed, the whole this would be affected.
What is the ecosystem or food chain?
his crocodile-like reptile the narrator saw on the riverbank makes swimming unsafe.
What is a caiman?
Name one way animals use different layers.
What is monkeys live in the canopy / frogs live in bromeliads?)
Name one way people use rain forest plants to help others.
What is (example) cinchona bark makes medicine for malaria?
Name two reasons rain forests are being destroyed as mentioned in the journal.
What are logging for wood/paper, mining, and clearing land for cattle ranches or plantations?
Explain how leaf cutter ants get food even though they don't eat the leaves they cut.
What is they use the leaves to grow a fungus that they eat?