2. How to use this program Read the information on each page and write your answer to the questions on your worksheet. Then check your answer with the answer key. When you come to a Quick Quiz, just click on the correct answer.
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11. Quick Quiz Click on the correct answer to the following questions. What is the bottom of the rain forest called? Understory Forest Floor Emergent
12. Great Job! Click on the correct answer to the following question. What is the layer below the canopy consisting of trunks of canopy trees? Emergent Forest Floor Understory
13. Good Work! Click on the correct answer to the following question. What layer has trees that usually reach sixty to ninety feet in height? Understory Canopy Forest Floor
14. Super! Click on the correct answer to the following question. What is the top layer of the rain forest called? Forest Floor Emergent Canopy
16. You are a real expert on the layers of the rain forest! Now read a little about the animals in the rain forest and write the answers to the questions on your worksheet.
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26. You really know your rain forest animals! Read about four more animals who make there home here…
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36. You are becoming a rain forest expert! Now read about where rain forests grow…
37. Rain forests grow in tropical parts of the world in South and Central America, Africa, Asia, and in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Tropical lands lie near the equator and in the bands between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Question 17: Tropical lands lie near the North and South Poles. True or False?
38. In the tropic areas near the equator, the seasons do not change very much. The weather is hot all year round. This makes it easy for many kinds of plants and animals to live and grow in the rain forest. Question 18: The weather in the tropics is ________all year round. Hot Frosty Cold
39. Rain forests near the equator are called tropical rain forests. In these rain forests, every day is like a hot summer day. Other rain forests are father from the equator. They are not as hot, but are slightly cooler. They are called temperate rain forests. All rain forests are very wet. More rain falls in these areas than anywhere else on earth. Question 19: The farther the rain forest is from the equator, the _________ it is. Hotter Windier Cooler
