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25 Cards in this Set
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Sloth |
Lives in the canopy - only comes down to go to the toilet and has algae in its fur |
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Emergents |
The tallest trees - can be up to 60m high |
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Convectional |
the most common type of rainfall in the rainforest |
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Epiphytes |
Plants that grow on the branches of trees to reach sunlight |
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Buttress roots |
The reason why emergents are able to grow so tall |
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Kayapo |
A tribe that live in the Amazon and paint their faces |
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Drip Tips |
The end of the leaf that lets water drip off it |
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Canopy |
The thickest layer in the rainforest |
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Decomposers |
insects worms and bacteria who live on the forest floor, they make the nutrients |
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Matis |
The tribe who hunt monkeys with blow torches |
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Logging |
Cutting down trees for furniture |
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Hydro-electric Power |
Energy made on rivers in the rainforest. It causes deforestation |
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Poison Dart Frog |
An animal in the rainforest that has bright colours and enough poison to kill 150 humans |
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Prehensile tail |
A tail that is like another arm. It helps monkeys swing in the rainforest |
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Korowai |
The tribe that build tree houses in the rainforest, so that they can avoid insects and flooding on the forest floor |
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Equator |
Where most of the rainforests are |
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Climate Graph |
A graph that shows rainfall in bars and temperature as a line graph |
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Strangler Fig |
A tree that grows around another one to help it reach sunlight. It will eventually kill the tree.
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Palm Oil |
Oil that is made from palm trees that are planted after the rainforest is cut down. This is a big problem for species like the orang-utan in the Borneo. |
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10% |
The % of products that have palm oil in them |
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Carbon Dioxide |
A greenhouse gas that causes global warming. When we cut down trees we increase the amount in the atmosphere |
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Subsistence farming |
When you only grow the crops you will eat, you don't sell any. |
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1/2 |
How much of the rainforest we have already cut down |
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137 |
The number of species of plants lost every day in the rainforest |
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Borneo |
An island owned by Indonesia and Malaysia, it only has 44.5% of its rainforest left |
