Cloud Forests: Water from the Air

You would find cloud forests everywhere EXCEPT:

• America

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

The water that drips through the cloud rain forest is...

• pure and unpolluted

• only rainwater

• bad for drinking

• rare

The most important resource people rely on from the cloud forests is...

• Meat

• Water

• Trees

• Fruit

There are more species of _____ in cloud forests than anywhere else in the world.

• Bears

• Lizards

• Hummingbirds

• One-finned fish

Cloud forests make up what percent of the world's forests?

• 10

• 12.5

• 2.5

• 22.5

Scientists discovered two types of ____ in cloud forests.

• New birds

• New trees

• New frogs

• New chemical compounds

Local people clear cloud forests to create all EXCEPT:

• Mines

• Pastures

• Parking lots

• Farms

What have governments done to help save cloud forests?

• Limited population numbers

• Created protected land areas

• Make any clearing of forest illegal

• Paid people to save the forest

What is an effective way of getting local people to help save their forests?

• Education about why the forests are important

• Paying people so they don't have to farm the land

• Relocating people away from the forests

• Providing people with free water and fruit

Each year, what percent of cloud forest land is cleared?

• 1.1

• 2.2

• 3.3

• 4.4