Tropical Rainforest

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Rainforests hold about _____ of all terrestrial land carbon and are the most important land ecosystems for mitigating climate.

• 28%

• 25%

• 22%

• none of the above

all months have an average precipitation of at least _____ mm

• 150

• 60

• 33

• 89

The great amassing of trees in the tropics pulls in toxic levels of _______ from the atmosphere,

• carbon

• neon

• argon

• gas

It can take _____ minutes for a falling raindrop to travel from a rainforest's thick canopy to the floor

• 10

• 11

• 13

• 1655

A rainforest is a _________

• tall, dense forest that receives lots of rain every year.

• a ocean containing marine life

• a grassland with a lot of grass

• none of the above