Layers of the Rainforest
What is the thickest layer of the rainforest?
What is "the Canopy"
What is the largest rainforest in the world?
How many countries are in South America?
What is "12"
What is deforestation?
What is "the clearing of trees"
What is the smallest country in South America?
What is "Suriname"
What is "animal life"
What is the "Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific."
What are the four languages spoken in South America?
What is "Spanish, Portuguese, English and Dutch"
What is one cause of deforestation:
Possible answers:
What is "Make space to build homes, malls, and other buildings, Make more farmland, Build roads, highways, and Logging"
How do people travel in the rainforest?
What is "boats, rafts, canoes"
What percent of sunlight reaches the forest floor?
What is "2%"
What is "Peak of a mountain"
What country is the Amazon Rainforest located in?
What is "Brazil"
Why are trees important to our planet?
What is flora?
What is "plant life"
Name the four layers of the rainforest from bottom to top:
What is the "Forest floor, the understory, the canopy, and the emergent."
Which side of South America is the Andes Mountains located?
What is the "west"
Where is the Amazon River located?
What is "Brazil"
What is "loss of habitat"
South America is divided into three parts based on what?
What is "their location near a body of water"
Which layer of the rainforest would an anaconda live in?
What is "the forest floor"
Name one country that the Andes Mountains are located in:
Possible answers: What is "Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia"
List four geographical features located in South America:
Answers may vary.
What is "Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest, Andes Mountains, Orinico River, Llanos Plains, etc."
Name two effects of deforestation
Answers may vary
What is "flooding, pollution, loss of animal habitat, climate change, etc."
True or false: Animals live in the emergent layer.
What is "false"