Fairchild Tropical Garden Vocab Test

There are _____ layers in the rainforest.

• 5

• 4

• 3

• 2

The layer growing under the canopy, made up of mostly trees and shrubs

• Understory

• Canopy

• Forest floor

• Emergent

Unique features of plants and animals that enable them to live in a particular environment

• ecosystem

• canopy

• adaptation

• epiphyte

a community of animals, plants, and microscopic life that interact together in the environment

• Ecosystem

• equator

• forest floor

• humidity

the ground layer of the rainforest, made up of tree roots, soil, decaying matter and decomposers

• emergent

• understory

• canopy

• forest floor

an imaginary circle around Earth that divides Earth into 2 equal parts

• orbit

• humidity

• equator

• organism

a plant that lives on the surface of another plant especially the trunk or branches

• epiphyte

• organism

• living

• non living

not having, characterized by, or marked by life

• living

• non living

• evaporation

• humidity

hot, humid zone

• paradise

• tropics

• Miami

• Hawaii

many different kinds of life in one area

• adaptation

• biodiversity

• canopy

• conservation