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Plants

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What color is the Emerald Tree Boa?

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Green

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Which carnivorous insect troops across the forest floor in long columns, eating everything in its path?

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Army Ant

Learn More About Army Ants

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What type of animal is a Toucan?

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Bird

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What small, insect eating amphibian has red eyes, orange

toes, and lives in the trees?

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Red-Eyed Tree Frog

Listen to tree frogs as recorded by the Discovery Channel 310KB AIFF file (28 seconds)

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Spotted hunter who watches from tree branches, leaping down onto the backs of his prey as they walk by on the

forest floor

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Jaguar

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Tropical rainforests are very dense. What does “dense” mean?

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“Very thick, tightly packed together” Rainforest trees grow densely

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A plant that grows on another plant.

(Also called an “air plant” because it takes nutrients from the air

instead of from the soil.)

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Epiphyte

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What type of plant is the LIANA

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A vine that grows 300 feet high. Its roots are in the soil. The LIANA uses other trees for support, not nutrients.

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Name a carnivorous plant that grows in the

rainforest.

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Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, the Raffelisa (Corpse Lily) of Indonesia

See more Pitcher Plants

http://www.nature-escapes-kuala-lumpur.com/pitcher-plants.html

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Why do trees in the tropical rain forest

grow so high?

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To get to the sunlight in the highest level, the Emergent Layer

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The Amazon Rainforest grows in the Amazon River basin. The Amazon River is the ___?___largest river in the world

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SECOND Largest

• Nile River

• Amazon River

• Mississippi River

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Animals that are active at night arecalled what?

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Nocturnal

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Name the 4 layers of the rainforest

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Emergent Layer, Canopy, Understory, and Forest Floor

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Name this defense mechanism: Animals with colors that blend in with the area where they live.

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Camouflage

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Why is the Amazon rainforest called the “Lungs of the

World”?

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Trees take in carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. Lungs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. The rainforest makes 20% of the world’s oxygen.

More amazing Rainforest contributions:http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm

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Name a tribe of people who have lived in the Amazon

rainforest for hundreds of years

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Yanomami Tribe(approx. 32,000 people who live in Brazil)

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A harmful type of farming where trees are cut and set on fire to make way for crops

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Slash and Burn Farming(poor soil produces few crops and the trees that provide so much are gone )

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What does man do to make some rainforest animals

become Endangered Species?

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Destroy their habitat, interrupt theirfood chain, over-hunt for fur, feathers…

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Name a product (useful object) that we get from the rainforest.

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Rubber, lumber, medicine, fruit, coffee beans, bauxite (used to make soda cans), cocoa…

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When humans destroy the rainforest habitat by cutting down every tree

in an area, it is called:

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Deforestation

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What are the two types of rainforests?

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Tropical and Temperate

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Temperate rainforests are found on what continent?

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North America

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The climate in a tropical rain forests is __________ and

__________ (do not say “rainy”)

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Hot and Humid

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Which rainforest has hundreds oftree species?

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Tropical

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What national park is most of the Temperate rainforests

located in?

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Olympic National Park in the state of Washington. The western slope ofMount Olympus contains rainforest

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What is the name of the world’s largest

rainforest?

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The Amazon Rainforest