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Rainforest scavenger hunt for kids
By Doris Baron of the Roper Mountain Science Center [https://www.ropermountain.org]
Instructions
1. Connect to the internet and go to rainforests.mongabay.com/kids [https://rainforests.mongabay.com/kids]
2. Use the information you find to answer the questions listed below. Write the answers below each question. Good Luck!
About Rainforests
1. What is the country with the 4th largest amount of rainforests?
2. What percentage of life in the rain forest is found in the canopy?
3. What process occurs on the forest floor that breaks down dead plants and animals?
Rainforest Animals
1. What are the two reasons there are a lot of plants and animals in a rainforest?
2. Lemurs are found in only one place. Where?
3. The Okapi has legs marked like what animal?
4. What are the two reasons jaguars are endangered?
5. The turaco is related to which other birds?
6. Which of the listed birds live in Australia?
Peacock
Rainbow lorikeet
Scarlet macaw
Toucan
7. About how big are Leaf Chameleons (also called Brookesia)?
8. Name one difference between moths and butterflies.
Rainforest People
1. Amerindians live in the Amazon. Where do pygmies live?
2. What do the people who live in the rainforest know a lot about that can help us when we are sick?
3. Do children from the rainforest go to school?
Why are Rainforests Important
1. Rainforests absorb carbon dioxide. True or False?
2. Rainforests don�t help maintain the H2O cycle. True or False?
3. The process of washing away of soil is called?
Saving rainforests
1. What are three things that can help save rainforests?
2. What are three things we can do at home to reduce our impact on the environment?
This document can be freely printed and distributed for non-commercial purposes.
Courtesy of mongabay.com and Doris Baron.
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