Rainforest Y9 mid term assessment

Question 1

What percentage of the planets species live in the rainforests?

Answer 1

50%

Question 2

How much land do all the rainforests cover in total?

Answer 2

2%

Question 3

What is the top layer in the rainforests called?

Answer 3

Emergents

Question 4

What is the bottom layer in the rainforests called?

Answer 4

Shrub layer

Question 5

What is the 2nd to bottom layer in the rainforests called?

Answer 5

Under canopy

Question 6

What is the 2nd to top layer in the rainforests called?

Answer 6

Canopy

Question 7

Where do rainforests occur?

Answer 7

Between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer

Question 8

How tall can the emergents get?

Answer 8

Up to 70m tall

Question 9

How does a python eat large prey?

Answer 9

It suffocates the prey and then dislocates it’s jaw to eat the prey

Question 11

What rank is a python on a food web?

Answer 11

Apex predator

Question 12

What rank is bamboo on a food web?

Answer 12

Producer

Question 13

In the soil in the rainforest, how much organic matter is there?
(%)

Answer 13

5%

Question 14

In the soil in the rainforest, how much weathered rock is there?
(%)

Answer 14

45%

Question 15

In the soil in the rainforest, how much air is there?

%

Answer 15

25%

Question 16

In the soil in the rainforest, how much water is there?

%

Answer 16

25%

Question 17

How many layers of soil are there?

Answer 17

3

Question 18

What are they?

Answer 18

1) Top soil
2) Sub soil
3) Substratum

Question 19

What word can you use to describe a python once it has eaten a large animal?

Answer 19

Vulnerable