;Jeopardy! - DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE! ;Category Titles ;Category 1 What is a Rainforest? ;Category 2 Layers of the Rainforest ;Category 3 Rainforests of the World ;Category 4 More Rainforests of the World ;Category 5 Life in the Rainforest ;Category 6 Threats to Rainforests ;Quiz Boxes Questions ;Category 1 - 200 point Question What do all rainforests have in common? ;Answer High rainfall (an average rainfall between 125 and 660mm per year) ;Category 1 - 400 point Question Rainforests are home to a) 5% b) 15% or c) 50% of all living species? ;Answer Rainforests are home to 50% of all living things ( a tropical rainforest can have more than 480 tree species in a single hectare) ;Category 1 - 600 point Question What are the main types of rainforest? ;Answer Tropical and temperate (a tropical rainforests are found in the zones between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; temperate rainforests are cooler climate rainforests) ;Category 1 - 800 point Question What are the layers of a rainforest? ;Answer Forest floor, understorey, canopy and emergent layer ;Category 1 - 1000 point Question Near what imaginary line are most of the world's tropical rainforests? ;Answer The Equator ;Category 2 - 200 point Question As well as soil, what covers the forest floor? ;Answer Leaf litter (this is where plants gain much of their nutrients in a rainforest) ;Category 2 - 400 point Question Name 2 plant types found in the understorey? ;Answer Shorter trees, trunks of canopy and emergent trees, epiphytes and vines are all found in the understorey ;Category 2 - 600 point Question Name an epiphyte ;Answer Fern, orchid, bromeliad, moss or lichen ;Category 2 - 800 point Question **Name 2 plants which do not need much light. ;Answer Moss and mould grow on the forest floor and can grow without much light ;Category 2 - 1000 point Question Where does much of the animal food grow in a rainforest? ;Answer In the canopy (leaves,fruit and flowers of canopy trees). ;Category 3 - 200 point Question What is the name of the world's largest rainforest? ;Answer The Amazon Rainforest in South America ;Category 3 - 400 point Question **What is the name of Australia's largest tropical rainforest? ;Answer The Daintree Rainforest in northern Queensland ;Category 3 - 600 point Question What is the name of the largest rainforest in Africa? ;Answer The Congo (18% of the world's remaining rainforest) ;Category 3 - 800 point Question **Where is Australia's largest temperate Rainforest? ;Answer Tasmania. The Tarkine Rainforest is in northwest Tasmania ;Category 3 - 1000 point Question Where are the tallest trees in the world found? ;Answer In temperate rainforests. The world's tallest tree is a coast redwood in California and is more than 115 metres tall ;Category 4 - 200 point Question Which is the only continent not to have any rainforests? ;Answer Antarctica ;Category 4 - 400 point Question **What % of the earth's land is covered with rainforest? 2%, 6% or 15% ;Answer Less than 6% (tropic rainforests covering less than 2%) - in the 1950s they covered 15% ;Category 4 - 600 point Question ***Name one of the two rainforests which claim to be the oldest in the world. ;Answer The Daintree in Queensland Australia (between 110 and 135 millions years) and Taman Nagara in Malaysia (app. 130 million years) ;Category 4 - 800 point Question Where is the world's largest temperate rainforest found? ;Answer Alaska - the Tongass Rainforest ;Category 4 - 1000 point Question True or False? The soil in a rainforest is deep and fertile ;Answer False. The soil in a rainforest shallow and only fertile in the top few centimetres. If the rainforest trees are removed, this soil erodes away. ;Category 5 - 200 point Question What do rainforest plants compete for? ;Answer Light (the thick rainforest canopy means little light gets to the layers below, so plants compete for available light) ;Category 5 - 400 point Question Which rainforest tree begins its life in the canopy? ;Answer A strangler fig (dropped in a host tree by animals, the roots then descend like vines to the forest floor. Over hundreds of years the fig eventually strangles the host tree) ;Category 5 - 600 point Question Which is the most numerous animal family in a rainforest? ;Answer Insects - over 90% of animal species in the Amazon Rainforest are insects ;Category 5 - 800 point Question Which type of root is thought to act like a pump? ;Answer Buttress roots (these large roots pump water to the top of these tall rainforest trees) ;Category 5 - 1000 point Question **Which Australian tropical rainforest bird is more endangered than the giant panda? ;Answer The cassowary (with only 500-1200 left in the wild the southern cassowary is endangered because of loss of habitat, road kills and dogs and feral pigs) ;Category 6 - 200 point Question Name 2 causes of rainforest destruction ;Answer Logging (both legal and illegal), cattle farming, plantations (such as palm oil, coffee and soy bean plantations) and mining ;Category 6 - 400 point Question How does rainforest clearing affect global warming? ;Answer Trees and plants which absorb Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere are removed ;Category 6 - 600 point Question What method of rainforest clearing burns cleared growth? ;Answer Slash and burn (many rainforest people are very poor - burning the forest is a fast cheap way of clearing land for farming, it also releases huge amounts of C02 into the atmosphere ;Category 6 - 800 point Question **How are fast food companies responsible for rainforest destruction? ;Answer In the past large amounts of rainforest were cleared for cattle farming (to make burgers). Now fast foods still threaten rainforests by their use of palm oil and soybeans ;Category 6 - 1000 point Question ***What food product has caused mass rainforest destruction? ;Answer Palm oil (in app 50% of packaged Australia goods-cereals, biscuits, ice cream, shampoos and cosmetics -also labelled sodium laureth sulphate, palmate, or even vegetable oil) ;Quiz Boxes Breaker Question How is Norway combating rainforest loss? ;Answer In 2010 Norway pledged $1billion to the Indonesia to reduce destruction. What can you do? Avoid palm oil products and illegal rainforest timber, and demand clear labelling of rainforest products