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LAYERS PLANTS ANIMALSMORE

ANIMALSFACTS &FIGURES

This is The top layer of the Rainforest. The tallest trees can be found here.

What is the Emergent Layer

This layer is very dark. Fungi and moss grow here

What is the Forest Floor

This layer of the Rainforest is home to animals such as

Sloths and Howler Monkeys. They can be

found “just hanging around.”

What is the canopy

This layer of the Rainforest sees the most sunlight of

all the layers.

What is the Emergent layer

This layer is just underneath the Rainforest

“umbrella.” It extends from the Forest Floor to the base of the Canopy

What is the Understory

This plant is the biggest in the whole world. It can

grow to be over 1 meter in diameter

What is the Rafflesia

This is the World’s largest grass. It is native to many

parts of the world.

What is Bamboo

This type of plant is sometimes called an air

plant. It grown on leaves and branches high in the

canopy.

What is an epiphyte

It was not until Europeans added sugar and milk to

cacao that the world came to know this

sweet treat

What is chocolate

This is the original base for chewing

gum. It comes from the latex (sap) of a

tree native from southern Mexico to

northern Brazil.

What is Chicle

This mammal is usually dark brown in color. It can

usually be found near water because of its great

ability to swim. It’s scientific name is Tapirus

terrestris

What is a Tapir

This reptile glides from tree to tree on winglike

skin flaps

What is the Flying Dragon

This is the loudest animal in the Rainforest. You can

hear him from 3 miles away.

What is the Howler Monkey

This is the slowest animal in the Rainforest

What is the Sloth

Monkeys have these, Apes do not.

What are tails

This butterfly is a common poisonous butterfly that eats

poisonous milkweed in its larval stage and lays its eggs on the

milkweed plant.

What is the Monarch Butterfly

This snake is the biggest snake in the world. Also known as the

Water Boa, this giant, meat-eater lives in swampy areas of tropical

(warm) South America.

What is the Anaconda

This is a large, flightless bird from Australia and New Guinea. It is the biggest bird in Australia

and the second-biggest bird in the world

What is the Cassowary

This mammal lives in Mexico, Central America and South

America.  They live in forests and swamps and plains.   It has a long sticky tongue that catches insects and very long, strong

claws.

What is the Anteater

This is the world's largest rodent. It has no tail and partially-

webbed feet. It lives on river banks

What is the Capybara

About 2,000 of these are cut down per minute in the

rainforests

What are trees

____________________acres of rainforest are lost every second

with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial

countries.

Rainforests are home to this fraction of the earth’s living

species

What is 2/3

There are______ billion acres of tropical forest remaining

What is 3.5

Over 2,000 tropical plants have been identified by scientists as

having anti__________properties

What is cancer