Tropical Rainforest

Question 1

Name the layers of the rainforest.

Answer 1

• Emergent
• Canopy
• U - canopy
• Shrub layer

Question 2

What is the emergent?

Answer 2

Highest layer with trees reachin 50m

big roots

Question 3

What is the canopy?

Answer 3

2nd layer
most life found there
high rainfalla nd sunlight (broad leaves)

Question 4

What is the u-canopy?

Answer 4

COnsists of trees that reach 20m

Question 5

What is the shrub layer?

Answer 5

Small trees that are adapted to shade

Question 6

What is the nutrient cycle?

Answer 6

Have nutrients taken in when animals eat plants and then it returns to the soil when they die?

Question 7

What we litter?

Answer 7

the surface layer of vegetation

Question 8

What is biomass?

Answer 8

The total mass of living organisms per unit area

Question 9

What is transpiration?

Answer 9

Evaporation from plants

Question 10

What are the goods?

Answer 10

Physical products you can see or touch

Question 11

Examples of goods.

Answer 11

furniture
rubber
fruit
medicine

Question 12

what ARe services?

Answer 12

Regulate the environment

Question 13

Examples of services

Answer 13

MAintain water cycle
trees intercept water
protect soil from erosion

Question 14

What human activities affect it?

Answer 14

• logging
  mineral extraction
  AGRICULTURE
  TOURISM

Question 15

WHat is th case study for TR?

Answer 15

COssta rica