Explore the rainforest

Rainforests have two main species

• plants and animals

• plants and trees

• rain and trees

• rain, animals and trees

Tick the correct answers: Rainforest trees are

• Conifers

• Deciduous

• Evergreen

• Short trees

People often think that tropical rainforests all look like this:

• warm and steamy with animals like colorful birds and plants like bananas and mango trees.

• cool and hot with animals with lots of desert animals

• boiling hot with colourful animals small shrubs

• warm only with occasional wind and snow

A rainforest can also look like this.

• home to animals that are adapted to cooler weather, like penguins

• home to animals that are adapted to snowy weather, like polar bears

• home to animals that are adapted to cooler weather, like bears and elk.

• home to animals that are adapted to freezing weather, like seals

Tick the correcty answers. The largest tropical rainforests are in the Amazon River Basin, the Congo River Basin, and throughout much of southeast Asia.

• Amazon River Basin

• Congo River Basin

• Most of South America

• Most of Australia & Europe

The warm rainforests are found

• only in Africa

• close to the imaginary line that runs around the middle of the Earth.

• close to the imaginary line that runs around the top of the Earth.

• close to the imaginary line that runs around the bottom of the Earth.

Tick the correct answers. The warm rainforests are also called

• The Tropics

• The desert

• Summer

• Jungle

• Plantations

Warm rainforests gets lots of sun which is why the temperature

• is really warm 6 months in the year

• is really warm 2 months each year

• is never really warm

• is really warm almost all the time

Scientists talk about the rainforest as having layers that

• change as you go from left to right

• change as you go from the top to the bottom.

• change as you go deeper into the rainforest

• change as you go travel further way

True or false, different animals and plants live in the same layer.

• True

• False