Rainforests - Knowsley Safari

Below are the names of some different places around the world—can you

put a tick by the places where rainforests are found and a cross by the

places where no rainforests are found?

Europe Brazil Argentina London Liverpool Indonesia

Africa Asia England Ireland Scotland Wales

Antarctica Australia South America United States of America

Thailand France Spain Germany Malaysia Russia

Rainforests are found around the EQUATOR. This is an imaginary line that

goes around the middle of the earth—we have drawn some of it on the

picture below, can you finish it for us by joining the lines?

A T B C D E

F S M E N O

G E P Q W X

H R Q U Y Z

N O Z A M A

I F R T A B

J N S O C E

K I T R D H

L A U V F G

B R A Z I L

In the word search below can you find the following words?

Rainforest Equator Amazon Brazil

The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world!

It is found in South America and over half of it is in a country called Brazil!

What do you think it is like in the rainforest? Can you write some

words in the thought bubble below?

Below are some words and sentences, can you sort them into the columns

in the table for which ones describe the rainforest and which ones don’t?

Rains every day Never rains Has no plants Has no trees

Has lots of plants Has lots of trees Is very hot Is very cold

Is very dark Is very wet Is very dry Is very dull

Is very green Is very colourful Has lots of fruit Has no fruit

There are no animals There are lots of animals

Has no food Has lots of food Has lots of shelter Has no shelter

Has lots of homes Has no homes Has no medicine Has some medicine

Is very dark Is very dull

Words to describe the

rainforest

Words that do no describe the

rainforest

As there are lots of tall trees in the rainforest, there are actually four

layers! The names of these four layers are:-

Emergent (Top layer)

Canopy

Understory

Forest floor (Bottom layer)

Can you draw a picture of the rainforest below?

Write the names of the layers in the boxes to the right and then draw an

arrow from each box to your picture to label it correctly

Below there are pictures of some animals that you might see at Knowsley

Safari Park. Can you circle the ones that live in the rainforest?

On the last page you circled some animals that live in the rainforest.

Their names are written in the table below. Can you add some more?

Rainforests are amazing! They are biodiverse—this means that they have

lots of different species (types) of plants, trees and animals.

Can you underline the right answer for how many different SPECIES of

ANIMALS scientists think call the rainforest home?

5 50 500 5000 50,000 500,000 5 million

There are so many that scientists haven’t even found them all yet! In one

year they discovered over 100 new species!

Capybara Tapir

Bush dog Stick insects

White’s tree frog Cockroaches

Can you finish the sentences below by picking the right word from the

box at the bottom of the page

The rainforests are found around the ……….……………..……………. The biggest

rainforest in the world is called the ….………………..………. Rainforest and it is

found in the continent of ...…………………………...………………………………………..

mostly in a country called ……………………………. In the rainforest it is really

…….……...…. because it rains every …….……….. This means that there is lots

of ...……...…….………. for ...……………….…….. to grow. So there are lots of tall

...………………………… in the rainforest. Lots of trees means lots of places to

live! So there are lots of different species of ..……………….…….. living in the

rainforest. A word for lots of different species is ………………………………………

Amazon Wet Trees Animals Equator Brazil

Day Plants Biodiverse South America Water

Unfortunately, even though rainforests are incredible—they are being

chopped down. There is a special science word for this called

deforestation.

There are lots of different reasons why the rainforest is being chopped

down:- it is mostly destroyed for people to make money.

Companies clear the land for farming— up to 80% of the Amazon

rainforest has been deforested for cattle ranching (cows which are sold to

make beef.)

A football pitch every 11 seconds is chopped down to grow a crop called

palm oil— this is found in a lot of things in the supermarket.

Another reason is to use the land for homes or to use the trees to make

furniture.

How does this make you feel? - Write what you think in the thought

bubble below

Why is this bad? What do we need rainforests for? Why are rainforests so

important? Circle the right answers

We need rainforests for ……….

Oxygen Helium Hydrogen Carbon dioxide

Flowers Fruit Food Drinks Coffee Light Medicine

Clothes Christmas trees Chocolate Bananas Vanilla

Fire Sun Glasses Spoons Coca Cola Mobile phones

Underline the right answers

If trees are chopped down ……….

The animals will lose their homes The animals will have lots of food

The animals will have less food The animals will have more homes

The animals could get hurt

What could you do to help? Circle the right answers

Raise money for charities who help the rainforest

Buy things without palm oil Buy things with palm oil

Write to companies asking them to not destroy the rainforest

Write to companies asking them to destroy the rainforest

Eat more meat Eat less meat

Tell people all the bad things that are happening to the rainforest so they

can help too

Can you think of anything else you could do? Write your answers in the

box below

Well done for finishing the worksheet! We hope you are excited to see us

at Knowsley Safari and we are look forward to meeting you! Write some

questions in the box below that you would like to ask us when you visit!