Rainforests

Question 1

Where are Rainforests distributed?

Answer 1

Around the equater (With exceptions in Japan and Oceania)

Question 2

What Climate is needed for a rainforest?

Answer 2

Warm Climate

Question 3

What is the average yearly rainfall

Answer 3

80 inches

Question 4

How much of the worlds surface do rainforests cover?

Answer 4

6-7%

Question 5

What is the average temperature?

Answer 5

29 degrees Celsius

Question 6

How much of the worlds animal and plant species live there?

Answer 6

50%

Question 7

What is the ground level?

Answer 7

Forest floor, Damp and Warm

Question 8

What is the under canopy?

Answer 8

Trees below the canopy, dark as there is less sunlight

Question 9

What is the canopy?

Answer 9

Main area of trees, where most animals live

Question 10

What are emergents?

Answer 10

Trees that grow tall to reach the sunlight

Question 11

How is the Jaguar adapted to living in the rainforest?

Answer 11

Can swim, climb trees, long tails to help balance, sharp teeth and claws to catch prey, camoflaged

Question 12

How is the Toucan adapted to living in the rainforest?

Answer 12

Long beak to catch prey, camoflaged with environment, strong claws to grip to trees, bright colours scare off predators

Question 13

How is Devils Ivy adapted?

Answer 13

Can climb up tree trunks (Epiphite) to reach the light, has aerial roots to support itself, laef angling to avoid shading its own leaves, Drip tip leaves (allows excess water to drip off preventing algae growth)

Question 14

How is the Swiss Cheese plant adapted?

Answer 14

Holes in leaves (disperses water quickly) (Enables sunlight to reach lower leaves) (Stops the leaves from being ripped apart by high wind speeds)

Question 15

What does biodiversity mean?

Answer 15

The variety of plant and animal life in the world or a particular habitat

Question 16

What is Deforestation?

Answer 16

The act of removing large areas of forest

Question 17

What are the main reasons for deforestation?

Answer 17

MIning, logging for hardwood (legal and illegal), Cattle ranching, Subsistence and Commercial agriculture

Question 18

What is the average height of most emergents?

Answer 18

60 metres

Question 19

What does goods mean?

Answer 19

Physical things we can touch

Question 20

What does services mean?

Answer 20

Ways/processes that take place in the tropical rainforests that maintain life. Often we can’t touch them, eg. the soaking up of Co2 by the plants.

Question 21

Why should rainforests be protected?

Answer 21

Provide habitats for plants and animals, thay regulate our climate, home to indiginous people, more than 25% of medicines originate in the rainforest, many foods come from rainforests, help prevent soil erosion

Question 22

What is sustainable development?

Answer 22

Meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Question 23

What is logging

Answer 23

Cutting down trees in rainforest (legal and illegal)

Question 24

What is soil erosion

Answer 24

Removal of soil by wind and rain