Rainforests

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What is the tallest layer of the Rainforest called?
Emergents
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What type of roots do tall trees have to stop them falling over?
Buttress
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What process washes most of the nutrients out of the Rainforest's soil?
Leaching
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What are the vines that wrap around bigger trees to get to the light?
Lianas
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What type of farming involves clearing the forest, farming, then moving onto somewhere new?
Shifting Cultivation
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Why do tribes have to move to a different clearing after farming for a while. The soil loses...
Nutrients
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What is the large-scale clearance of forests called?
Deforestation
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What is the largest threat to the Rainforest
Cattle Ranching
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What was the name of the tribe that Bruce stayed with?
The Matis
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People that gather food from trees and hunt are called what?
Hunter-gatherers
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What is the name of the plants that live up in the branches of other plants. An example is orchids.
Epiphytes
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What percent of sunlight gets to the forest floor?
Two
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Rainforests are found in a belt around the planet, along the equator, between the...
Tropics
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On a climate graph, the rainfall is shown as a blue _____ graph.
Bar
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On a climate graph, the temperature is shown as a red _____ graph
Line
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What type of roots do tall trees have to stop them falling over?

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What process washes most of the nutrients out of the Rainforest's soil?

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What are the vines that wrap around bigger trees to get to the light?

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What type of farming involves clearing the forest, farming, then moving onto somewhere new?

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