1. 2 5 10 20 1 2 5 10 20 1 2 5 10 20 1 2 5 10 20 1 2 5 10 20 1 LAYERSPLANTSANIMALS MORE ANIMALS FACTS & FIGURES

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

3. What is the Emergent Layer

5. This layer is very dark. Fungi and moss grow here

6. What is the Forest Floor

7. This layer of the Rainforest is home to animals such as Sloths and Howler Monkeys. They can be found “just hanging around.”

8. What is the canopy

9. This layer of the Rainforest sees the most sunlight of all the layers.

10. What is the Emergent layer

11. This layer is just underneath the Rainforest “umbrella.” It extends from the Forest Floor to the base of the Canopy

12. What is the Understory

13. This plant is the biggest in the whole world. It can grow to be over 1 meter in diameter

14. What is the Rafflesia

16. This is the World’s largest grass. It is native to many parts of the world.

17. What is Bamboo

18. This type of plant is sometimes called an air plant. It grown on leaves and branches high in the canopy.

19. What is an epiphyte

20. It was not until Europeans added sugar and milk to cacao that the world came to know this sweet treat

21. What is chocolate

22. This is the original base for chewing gum. It comes from the latex (sap) of a tree native from southern Mexico to northern Brazil.

23. What is Chicle

24. 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

25. What is a Tapir

26. This reptile glides from tree to tree on winglike skin flaps

27. What is the Flying Dragon

28. This is the loudest animal in the Rainforest. You can hear him from 3 miles away.

29. What is the Howler Monkey

30. This is the slowest animal in the Rainforest

31. What is the Sloth

32. Monkeys have these, Apes do not.

33. What are tails

34. This butterfly is a common poisonous butterfly that eats poisonous milkweed in its larval stage and lays its eggs on the milkweed plant.

35. What is the Monarch Butterfly

36. 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.

37. What is the Anaconda

38. 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

39. What is the Cassowary

40. 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.

41. What is the Anteater

42. This is the world's largest rodent. It has no tail and partially- webbed feet. It lives on river banks

43. What is the Capybara

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

45. What are trees

46. ____________________acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.

47. What is One and a halfWhat is One and a half

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

49. What is 2/3

50. There are______ billion acres of tropical forest remaining

51. What is 3.5

52. Over 2,000 tropical plants have been identified by scientists as having anti__________properties

53. What is cancer