Directions:
Use the links provided with the questions to go on a virtual scavenger hunt through the Rainforest and find the answers to the questions. Write or type your answers and be sure to read the whole question and answer all the parts.
Mangroves in the Rainforest
Topic One: Plants of the Rainforest By: Katherine Arango
1. Choose your favorite rainforest plant and write two things that you didn’t know about it. Use complete sentences. (Hint: You can use any one o f the “Interesting Plant” pages. The links are on the left hand side of the screen)
2. Highlight the foods or spices that come from rainforest plants and two things that are not food that come from rainforest plants. Use this website: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/plants.html
Pineapple, coffee, chocolate, bananas, oranges, bamboo, rubber, chewing gum, syrup
Bougainvilla by a waterfall
3. The emergent layer of the rainforest contains (answer part 1) and is home to (answer part two) .
Golden Lion Tamarin Baby
Topic Two: Animals of the Rainforest By: Dana Rosenberg
1. Search for three endangered animals in this Rainforest! Record the name of each animal along with one fact you find interesting and the reason this animal is becoming endangered. Use complete sentences.
(Hint: Click on the link "Orangutans" and navigate the website to find the page specifically about these highly intelligent mammals)
3. Select an Arthropod and list it's name, diet and size.
Topic Three: Birds of the Rainforest By: Heather RIgual
1. There are many birds found in the rainforest. Choose your favorite Rainforest Bird and write two reasons for choosing this bird.
(Hint: Click on the Rainforest Birds to find the answer)
2. The Scarlet Macaw is one of the Rainforest Birds. Answer the following question about it:
The diet of the Scarlet Macaw is made up of nuts, leaves, berries and (_) (Hint: click on the link "Scarlet Macaw" to find the answer) .
3. What bird is the smallest in the world? Use this link to find the answer: http://www.rainforest-facts.com/rainforest-birds.html
2. Each layer is found at a certain height. Which two layers are found between the top and bottom layers? What height are these layers found at?
3. Name an animal that can be found in the highest layer of the Rainforest.
Topic Five - Links Below are some links that will help your find out lots of cool stuff about the Amazon Rainforest. Each of the links goeswith the question that has the same number. Question 2 has two links. The extra credit question is optional.
Find the Amazon Rainforest on a map. Which continent is it on?
See if you can find out more about the un-contacted tribes of the Amazon from the video. What do they eat? How do they make money or do they trade? What if you had never heard of computers, the internet or even phones? Do you think your life would be very different? Do you think you would have other ways to play, learn and find stuff out?
Why are there so many plants and animals in rainforests? Use this link to get more information on the science of rainforests. Why is the rain forest so fertile? If you don't know what the word "fertile" means type "define: fertile" in a search box like Google to find out.
Extra Credit: Find a video, picture or sound-clip of the Amazon Rainforest and discuss it with your classmates in the provided graphic. Click the discussion link at the top of this page, then click "New Post", enter the subject, your name and your comment, and it will appear in the boxes below. In your message, include a link to the video, picture, and sound-clip that you choose.
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Topic 6: Rainforest Weather and Climate By: Taylor Florin
Having such a humid climate, what is the average amount of yearly rainfall (in centimeters) in the Tropical Rainforest?
The category of rainforest depends on their weather and location. What are the three categories of Rainforests?
What is one of the driest months in the tropical rainforest? What is one of the months with the most rainfall
Topic 7: Location of Rainforests By: Kelsey Sparkes
1. Tropical Rainforests are found in locations that receive significant amounts of what?
2. List two countries where rainforests can be found.
3. Where is the largest rainforest on Earth located? (Hint: Look at the map below)
Team One: Rainforest Scavenger Hunt
Directions:
Use the links provided with the questions to go on a virtual scavenger hunt through the Rainforest and find the answers to the questions. Write or type your answers and be sure to read the whole question and answer all the parts.
Topic One: Plants of the Rainforest
By: Katherine Arango
1. Choose your favorite rainforest plant and write two things that you didn’t know about it. Use complete sentences. (Hint: You can use any one o f the “Interesting Plant” pages. The links are on the left hand side of the screen)
2. Highlight the foods or spices that come from rainforest plants and two things that are not food that come from rainforest plants. Use this website: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/plants.html
Pineapple, coffee, chocolate, bananas, oranges, bamboo, rubber, chewing gum, syrup
3. The emergent layer of the rainforest contains (answer part 1) and is home to (answer part two) .
Topic Two: Animals of the Rainforest
By: Dana Rosenberg
1. Search for three endangered animals in this Rainforest! Record the name of each animal along with one fact you find interesting and the reason this animal is becoming endangered. Use complete sentences.
2. Are Orangutans originally from...
A. America
B. South America
C. Asia
D. Canada
(Hint: Click on the link "Orangutans" and navigate the website to find the page specifically about these highly intelligent mammals)
3. Select an Arthropod and list it's name, diet and size.
By: Heather RIgual
1. There are many birds found in the rainforest.
Choose your favorite Rainforest Bird and write two reasons for choosing this bird.
(Hint: Click on the Rainforest Birds to find the answer)
2. The Scarlet Macaw is one of the Rainforest Birds. Answer the following question about it:
The diet of the Scarlet Macaw is made up of nuts, leaves, berries and (_)
(Hint: click on the link "Scarlet Macaw" to find the answer)
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3. What bird is the smallest in the world? Use this link to find the answer: http://www.rainforest-facts.com/rainforest-birds.html
Topic Four: Layers of the Rainforest
1. List the four layers of the Rainforest.
2. Each layer is found at a certain height. Which two layers are found between the top and bottom layers? What height are these layers found at?
3. Name an animal that can be found in the highest layer of the Rainforest.
Topic Five - Links
Below are some links that will help your find out lots of cool stuff about the Amazon Rainforest. Each of the links goes with the question that has the same number. Question 2 has two links. The extra credit question is optional.
- The Amazon Rainforest Map
- The Un-contacted Tribes of the Amazon
- Survival International - Amazon Tribes
3. Amazon Rainforest Flora and SoilTopic Five: The Amazon Rainforest
by Jenifer Wills
Topic 6: Rainforest Weather and Climate
By: Taylor Florin
- Having such a humid climate, what is the average amount of yearly rainfall (in centimeters) in the Tropical Rainforest?
- The category of rainforest depends on their weather and location. What are the three categories of Rainforests?
- What is one of the driest months in the tropical rainforest? What is one of the months with the most rainfall
in the tropical rainforest?Topic 7: Location of Rainforests
By: Kelsey Sparkes
1. Tropical Rainforests are found in locations that receive significant amounts of what?
2. List two countries where rainforests can be found.
3. Where is the largest rainforest on Earth located? (Hint: Look at the map below)