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The answers to the 3 interactive rain forest puzzles are:
Reminder:
You can access the Rain Forest FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS Assessment exercise here.
Also, a lesson plan of five questions to study are listed at the bottom of this page."
A: absorption, abundance, access, accessibility, accommodate, acid-rain, adaptation, Amazon, advocate, advocacy, air plants, alternatives, amphibians, appreciation, aquatic, atmosphere, attraction, awesome
B: backlash, bacteria, balance, barren, beauty, benefit, biota, biodegradable, biodiversity, birds, bog, boost, botanical, boundary, bountiful, breeze, brilliant, bromeliad, bug, buttress, buzz
C: capacity, carbon dioxide, care, catastrophe, category, chemicals, clean-up, climate, coastal, combustible, commercial, commitment, community, condensation, conserve, conservation, conspicuous, contiguous, contribution, conviction, covering, creation, creature, crown, crucial, curb, current, cynicism
D: damage, decay, decline, decompose, defoliate, deforestation, demise, density, denude, deplete, deplorable, deposits, destructive, detection, devastation, development, difference, direction, disaster, discovery, disease, disposable, diversity, documentary, dramatize, drench, drought, dynamic
E: earth, ecology, ecological, ecosystem, efficiency, elimination, emission, encroach, endangered, endemic, energy, enigmatic, environment, envision, epicenter, equator, eradicate, erode, erosion, evaporation, evergreen, evidence, evolution, exclusive, exhaustion, expanse, experience, exploration, extinction
F: failure, fault, fauna, feature, fern, fertile, fibrous, flora, flourish, fluorescence, food chain, forestry, fumigation, fuss
G: galvanize, gander, gases, global, greed, green, greenhouse, groundwater, guideline
H: habitat, harbor, hazard, haze, herbicide, humidity, hurricane
I: impact, improvements, incineration, indigenous, influence, inhabit, initiative, inquiry, insects, insight, inspiration, intense, interference, inundation, invade, investigation
J: journalists, journey, jungle
K: keen
L: landmark, landscape, layer, lianas, lower canopy
M: magical, magnificent, magnificence, mammals, management, marsh, maximization, metamorphosis, methane, microbes, mildew, moratorium, morphology, mortality, moss, motion, movement, mulch
N: nascent, national, native, nature, natural, neglect, nitrogen, nontoxic, nutrients
O: obliterate, occupy, official, onslaught, ooze, opposition, organism, organization, original, overlook, ozone
P: parasite, passionate, peril, permutation, pesticide, pests, petrify, plants, plentiful, pollutant, pollute, popular, popularity, predator, predict, prehistoric, preservation, precipitation, pressure, pride, primeval, pristine, prize, proclaim, prognosis, program, progress, projection, propagation, property, prosperity, protection, protest, public
Q: quest, quiet
R: rainwater, recipient, reclamation, recognition, record, rectify, refuge, reliance, remains, renewable, replica, repository, reproduction, reptiles, rescue, reserves, resilience, resolve, respect, restoration, revitalize, revival, rights, risk, role, roots, rot, ruin
S: safety, salinity, salute, salvage, science, scientist, scrap, sediment, sentiment, skepticism, shelter, shortage, slide, smoke, solar, soluble, species, speculation, speech, spew, spiel, splendid, spotlight, sprawl, staunch, stewardship, storm, strangler trees, stress, stunning, success, sun, sunlight, supply, support, surface, survive, survival, sustainable, swamp, symbiosis, symptom, synergy
T: taint, task, temperate, temperature, terrain, thrive, thundershower, timber, toil, toxic, toxin, tract, treatment, trespass, tribute, triumph, tropical, trumpet, tsunami
U: ultimate, ultraviolet rays, undeveloped, unique, unspoiled, uplifting, upper canopy, uproot
V: valuable, vanish, vapor, vegetation, venue, versatile, vested interest, vigilance, violation, visible, vision, vista, volatile, volunteers, vulnerable
W: wallow, waste, water, waterfall, weather, weeds, wildlife, wind, winner, world, world-class, worldwide, wreck
X: Y: yield
Z: zealous, zero-tolerance, zone
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Lesson Plan questions to study:1. In what countries does heavy rainfall occur that would allow tropical rain forests? 2. What makes the plant life interesting to scientists in rain forests? 3. What kinds of plants grow on tree branches? Why? 4. Animals live in the upper and lower canopies of a rain forest. Name some of them and explain how they can live at various levels, even on the ground. 5. If people live in rain forest, how do they survive? Can you give a few examples? For an "assessment exercise" for the Rain Forest Thematic Content, click on Rain Forest FITB Assessment here.
Return to the Rain Forest interactive puzzles here.
Find the Words: ["S139Level 1 WF"] --
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Definition MATCH: ["S139Level 1-Match"] --
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Crosswords: ["S139Level 1 C/W"] --
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Contextual Stories: ["S139Level 1 Story"] --
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Is It True or False?: ["S139Level 1 T/F"] --
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Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S139Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 3-Syn/Ant]
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