Layers
Species
Habitats
100

The most obscure and overlooked layer of the rainforest that is not visible to the naked eye

Whjat is soil?

100

The eagle with the largest claws

What is a Harpy Eagle?

100

The largest rainforest in the world

What is the Amazon Rainforest?

200

The dense layer that consists of the branches of trees and their leaves (about twenty feet thick) and houses the most species of the rainforest

What is the canopy?

200

An omnivorous lizard with “plumes’ and the ability to climb and walk on water

What is a Basilisk Lizard?

200

The rainforests of the second-largest island in the world, which is located in Oceania, and house the many species of Birds-of-Paradise

What is the New Guinean lowland rainforest?

300

The second lowest layer of the rainforest, which is characterized by young trees and low-lying vegetation in a leafy, dark, and damp world that receives around 5-10% of sunlight

What is the understory?

300

A type of toad that looks like other non-toad frogs, is endangered, and lives in Central and South America

What is a Harlequin Frog?

300

The rainforests north of Australia, in Asia, and home to draco lizards, orangutans, tarsiers, sumatran rhinoceras, and more

What are the South-East Asian rainforests?

400

The lowest layer of the rainforest, which is the darkest, dampest, is coated with ancient plants and decomposers, and has the most extreme low-light conditions and receives less than 5% of sunlight

What is the forest floor?

400

A small arboral (tree-living) animal that has the largest proportionate eyes of any mammal

What is a Tarsier?

400

The rainforest where chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas live

What is the Congo rainforest?

500

The layer that consists of the very tallest trees, their tops, and recives the most sunlight

What is the emergent layer?

500

The helmet-like bony protrusion on the top of the head on cassowaries

What is a casque?

500

The oldest rainforest in the world

What is Daintree rainforest?