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Rainforest JeopardyRainforest Jeopardy
Animals of the Tropical Rainforest
Facts on Rainforests
Man and the Rainforest
Types of Rainforests
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Final Jeopardy
Plants
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$100 Question from $100 Question from Tropical Rainforest AnimalsTropical Rainforest Animals
What color is the Emerald Tree Boa?
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Green
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Which carnivorous insect troops across the forest floor in long columns, eating everything in its path?
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Army Ant
Learn More About Army Ants
http://striweb.si.edu/rainforest/Army_ants.html
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What type of animal is a Toucan?
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Bird
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$400 Question from $400 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals Tropical Rainforest Animals
What small, insect eating amphibian has red eyes, orange
toes, and lives in the trees?
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$400 Answer from $400 Answer from Tropical Rainforest Animals Tropical Rainforest Animals
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Listen to tree frogs as recorded by the Discovery Channel 310KB AIFF file (28 seconds)
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$500 Question from $500 Question from Tropical Rainforest Animals 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
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Jaguar
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$100 Question from $100 Question from Plants of the RainforestPlants of the Rainforest
Tropical rainforests are very dense. What does “dense” mean?
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“Very thick, tightly packed together” Rainforest trees grow densely
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$200 Question from $200 Question from Plants of the Rainforest 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.)
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Epiphyte
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What type of plant is the LIANA
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A vine that grows 300 feet high. Its roots are in the soil. The LIANA uses other trees for support, not nutrients.
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$400 Question from $400 Question from Plants of the Rainforest Plants of the Rainforest
Name a carnivorous plant that grows in the
rainforest.
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$400 Answer from $400 Answer from Plants of the Rainforest Plants of the Rainforest
Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, the Raffelisa (Corpse Lily) of Indonesia
See more Pitcher Plants
http://www.nature-escapes-kuala-lumpur.com/pitcher-plants.html
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$500 Question from $500 Question from Plants of the Rainforest Plants of the Rainforest
Why do trees in the tropical rain forest
grow so high?
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To get to the sunlight in the highest level, the Emergent Layer
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$100 Question from $100 Question from Facts on RainforestsFacts on Rainforests
The Amazon Rainforest grows in the Amazon River basin. The Amazon River is the ___?___largest river in the world
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SECOND Largest
• Nile River
• Amazon River
• Mississippi River
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Animals that are active at night arecalled what?
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Nocturnal
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Name the 4 layers of the rainforest
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Emergent Layer, Canopy, Understory, and Forest Floor
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Name this defense mechanism: Animals with colors that blend in with the area where they live.
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Camouflage
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$500 Question from$500 Question from Facts on Rainforests Facts on Rainforests
Why is the Amazon rainforest called the “Lungs of the
World”?
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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:http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
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$100 Question from $100 Question from Man and the RainforestMan and the Rainforest
Name a tribe of people who have lived in the Amazon
rainforest for hundreds of years
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Yanomami Tribe(approx. 32,000 people who live in Brazil)
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$200 Question from $200 Question from Man and the Rainforest Man and the Rainforest
A harmful type of farming where trees are cut and set on fire to make way for crops
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Slash and Burn Farming(poor soil produces few crops and the trees that provide so much are gone )
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What does man do to make some rainforest animals
become Endangered Species?
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Destroy their habitat, interrupt theirfood chain, over-hunt for fur, feathers…
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Name a product (useful object) that we get from the rainforest.
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Rubber, lumber, medicine, fruit, coffee beans, bauxite (used to make soda cans), cocoa…
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When humans destroy the rainforest habitat by cutting down every tree
in an area, it is called:
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Deforestation
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$100 Question from $100 Question from Types of Rainforests Types of Rainforests
What are the two types of rainforests?
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Tropical and Temperate
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Temperate rainforests are found on what continent?
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North America
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The climate in a tropical rain forests is __________ and
__________ (do not say “rainy”)
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Hot and Humid
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Which rainforest has hundreds oftree species?
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Tropical
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What national park is most of the Temperate rainforests
located in?
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Olympic National Park in the state of Washington. The western slope ofMount Olympus contains rainforest
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Final JeopardyFinal Jeopardy
What is the name of the world’s largest
rainforest?
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Final Jeopardy AnswerFinal Jeopardy Answer
The Amazon Rainforest