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2. $100 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals
What color is the Emerald Tree Boa?

3. $100 Answer from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Green

4. $200 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Which carnivorous insect troops
across the forest floor in long
columns, eating everything in its path?

5. $200 Answer from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Army Ant
Learn More About Army Ants

6. $300 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals
What type of animal is a Toucan?

7. $300 Answer from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Bird

8. $400 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals
What small, insect eating amphibian has red eyes, orange toes, and lives in the trees?

9. $400 Answer from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Listen to tree frogs as recorded by the Discovery Channel KB AIFF file (28 seconds)

10. $500 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Spotted hunter who watches from tree branches, leaping down onto the backs of his prey as they walk by on the forest floor

11. $500 Answer from Tropical Rainforest Animals
Jaguar

12. $100 Question from Plants of the Rainforest
Tropical rainforests are very dense.
What does “dense” mean?

13. $100 Answer from Plants of the Rainforest
“Very thick, tightly packed together”
Rainforest trees grow densely

14. $200 Question from Plants of the Rainforest
A plant that grows on another plant.
(Also called an “air plant” because it takes nutrients from the air instead of from the soil.)

15. $200 Answer from Plants of the Rainforest
Epiphyte

16. $300 Question from Plants of the Rainforest
What type of plant is the LIANA

17. $300 Answer from Plants of the Rainforest
A vine that grows 300 feet high. Its roots are in the soil. The LIANA uses other trees for support, not nutrients.

18. $400 Question from Plants of the Rainforest
Name a carnivorous plant that grows in the rainforest.

19. $400 Answer from Plants of the Rainforest
Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, the Raffelisa (Corpse Lily) of Indonesia
See more Pitcher Plants

20. $500 Question from Plants of the Rainforest
Why do trees in the tropical rain forest grow so high?

21. $500 Answer from Plants of the Rainforest
To get to the sunlight in the highest
level, the Emergent Layer

22. $100 Question from Facts on Rainforests
The Amazon Rainforest grows in the Amazon River basin. The Amazon River is the ___?___largest river in the world

23. $100 Answer from Facts on Rainforests
SECOND Largest
Nile River
Amazon River
Mississippi River

24. $200 Question from Facts on Rainforests
Animals that are active at night are
called what?

25. $200 Answer from Facts on Rainforests
Nocturnal

26. $300 Question from Facts on Rainforests
Name the 4 layers of the rainforest

27. $300 Answer from Facts on Rainforests
Emergent Layer, Canopy, Understory, and Forest Floor

28. $400 Question from Facts on Rainforests
Name this defense mechanism: Animals with colors that blend in with the area where they live.

29. $400 Answer from Facts on Rainforests
Camouflage

30. $500 Question from Facts on Rainforests
Why is the Amazon rainforest called the “Lungs of the World”?

31. $500 Answer from Facts on Rainforests
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:

32. $100 Question from Man and the Rainforest
Name a tribe of people who have lived in the Amazon rainforest for hundreds of years

33. $100 Answer from Man and the Rainforest
Yanomami Tribe
(approx. 32,000 people who live in Brazil)

34. $200 Question from Man and the Rainforest
A harmful type of farming where trees are cut and set on fire to make way for crops

35. $200 Answer from Man and the Rainforest
Slash and Burn Farming
(poor soil produces few crops and the trees that provide so much are gone )

36. $300 Question from Man and the Rainforest
What does man do to make some rainforest animals become Endangered Species?

37. $300 Answer from Man and the Rainforest
Destroy their habitat, interrupt their
food chain, over-hunt for fur, feathers…

38. $400 Question from Man and the Rainforest
Name a product (useful object) that we get from the rainforest.

39. $400 Answer from Man and the Rainforest
Rubber, lumber, medicine, fruit, coffee beans, bauxite (used to make soda cans), cocoa…

40. $500 Question from Man and the Rainforest
When humans destroy the rainforest habitat by cutting down every tree in an area, it is called:

41. $500 Answer from Man and the Rainforest
Deforestation

42. $100 Question from Types of Rainforests
What are the two types of rainforests?

43. $100 Answer from Types of Rainforests
Tropical and Temperate

44. $200 Question from Types of Rainforests
Temperate rainforests are found on what continent?

45. $200 Answer from Types of Rainforests
North America

46. $300 Question from Types of Rainforests
The climate in a tropical rain forests is __________ and __________ (do not say “rainy”)

47. $300 Answer from Types of Rainforests
Hot and Humid

48. $400 Question from Types of Rainforests
Which rainforest has hundreds of
tree species?

49. $400 Answer from Types of Rainforests
Tropical

50. $500 Question from Types of Rainforests
What national park is most of the Temperate rainforests located in?

51. $500 Answer from Types of Rainforests
Olympic National Park in the state
of Washington. The western slope of
Mount Olympus contains rainforest

52. What is the name of the world’s largest rainforest?
Final Jeopardy
What is the name of the world’s largest rainforest?

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
The Amazon Rainforest