Rainforests

Click here to go to the Learning About Rainforests site.

Now answer these questions.

In the layers of the rainforest what are the tallest trees called?

What fraction of the world's plant species are found in rainforests?

Where is the world's largest rainforest?

What are lianas?

Where do macaws like to nest?

Rainforest Animals

Use one or both of the sites below to answer the questions.

Rainforest Alliance's Research and Resources page.     or  Rainforest Animals

Rainforest Plants

Use Children's Tropical Forest Site to answer the questions

What is the largest flower in the world?

What insect is attracted to this plant and why?

What sort of plants have aerial roots?

List two ways that plants protect themselves from being eaten by animals.