Flora
What biome contains a type of root adaptation called buttress roots?
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
What percentage of the Earth's land cover is tropical rainforest?
What is 6%?
Name one animal adaptation found in the tropical rainforest (that is mentioned in the presentation).
What is mimicry, poisonous nature, or a limited diet?
What is the endangered species that is heavily affected by the rising temperature in the Amazonian lakes?
What is the Amazon River Dolphin?
This 2014 animated film took place in the Amazon Rainforest and used Blue Spix Macaws to demonstrate the effects of deforestation on the ecosystem.
What is Rio 2?
What is an adaptive strategy to combat drought in the savanna?
What are water-storing trunks, long tap roots, and defensive structures
What Continent contains the largest expanse of tropical savanna?
What is Africa?
What animal has evolved to use 'fungi gardens' to cultivate food in tropical rainforests?
What are Leaf-cutter Ants?
This Savanna woodlands cover several African countries, including Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What are the Miombo Woodlands?
What industry in Borneo is responsible for the habitat destruction of Orangutans?
What is the Palm Oil Industry?
What are the two biggest selective pressures for plants within the savanna?
What is the intense dry season and intense herbivory?
What causes the heavy rainfall seen between some areas between the Tropic of Capricorn and Cancer?
What are Hadley Cells?
Which predator has the most successful hunt rate in the savanna? (Extra 100 if you can get the percentage)
What are the African Wild dogs? (90%)
What has the savanna biome recently been targeted for? (Hint: Industry)
What is Agricultural development?
How many wildebeest participate in the Great Migration annually?
What is 1 million?
This epiphyte can be found in tropical and subtropical regions and contains drip tip leaves for water mitigation.
What is an orchid?
What is the range of months a dry season can last in the savanna?
What is 2 to 11 months?
What keystone species plays a major part in seed dispersal in Borneo and Sumatra?
What is the Orangutan?
Out of 8000 vertebrate species found in the tropical savanna globally, how many are considered threatened species?
What are 2500 species?
What tropical butterfly mimics the Monarch butterfly as a defense mechanism? What is the adaptation called?
What is the Viceroy Butterfly and mimicry adaptation?
This tree uses its water-storing trunk to combat the dry season (found in the presentation).
What is the Baobab tree?
What is the average humidity range and general temperature range for a tropical rainforest?
What is 77% to 88% humidity and 68°F to 95°F?
What role do elephants play in shaping the savanna ecosystems? (Give three key points)
What is contributes to seed dispersal, prevents overgrowth, maintains open grassland, and opens up watering holes by using their feet and tusks?
What percentage of Lake Tefe's surface area had been lost due to drought?
What is 75%?
This 1994 film uses themes from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to portray a story of usurped royalty in the savanna.
What is The Lion King?