LAYERSPLANTSANIMALS MORE ANIMALS FACTS & 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.
What is One and a halfWhat is One and a half
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