Tropical Rainforests

Question 1

What is the climate?

Answer 1

Temperature is usually 20-28 degrees celsius

Rainfall is around 2000mm per year

Question 2

What is the soil like?

Answer 2

The soil is not very fertile because the rainfall removes the nutrients away.

Nutrients occur from decayed leaf fall.

Layer is thin as decay is fast as of the warm moist conditions

Question 3

What are the plants like?

Answer 3

Many of the trees are extremely tall meaning the vegetation cover is dense

Question 4

What is an epiphyte?

Answer 4

Plants that grow on other living trees and take the nutrients and moisture from around them

Question 5

Give an example of an epiphyte

Answer 5

Orchids

Question 6

Give a definition of the animals appearance

Answer 6

Loads of the species are brightly coloured and make a lot of noise as well

Question 7

Give three examples of animals that are in the tropical rainforest

Answer 7

Jaguars
Tree frogs
Sloths

Question 8

What do people do who live there?

Answer 8

Hunt
Fish
Gather nuts and berries
They also grow vegetables in small garden plots

Question 9

Is a rainforest an interdependent ecosystem?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

Name an adaptation that plants have made to survive in the rainforest?

Answer 10

Plants have thick, waxy leaves with pointed tips (called drip-tip leaves) to channel the water off the plant and let it gently hit the forest floor

Question 11

Name an adaption animals have made to survive in the rainforest?

Answer 11

Some animals can camouflage themselves into surroundings to hide from predators

Question 12

Is a rainforest a high or low biodiversity?

Answer 12

Very high biodiversity

Question 13

What is population pressure?

Answer 13

Population increases in the area meaning trees being cut down increases to make new land settlements

Question 14

What is mineral extraction?

Answer 14

Minerals are mined and sold to other people to make money

Question 15

Name a mineral that is extracted from the ground

Answer 15

Gold
Or
Iron ore

Question 16

What is energy development?

Answer 16

Dams are built to help generate hydro-electric power floods

Question 17

Commercial logging?

Answer 17

Trees are felled to help make money

Question 18

Definition of commercial farming

Answer 18

Forest gets cleared to make space for cattle grazing

Or even for huge palm oil or soya plantations

Question 19

What is subsistence farming uses for?

Answer 19

Cleared so that farmers can then grow food for themselves and their family too

Question 20

Where is the main place that deforestation is a major problem?

Answer 20

Amazon rainforest