Jeopardy Rainforests Tropical Deforestation Impacts Misc Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question Rainforests The tropical zones have stable year round temperatures because ….

$100 Answer from Rainforests Located near the equator

$200 Question RainForest The warm temperatures and high humidity of rain forests contribute to the rapid breakdown of organic matter through what Process?

$200 Answer from Rain Forest decomposition

$300 Question from Rain Raiforest Which layer of the rainforest receives the least amount of sunlight?

$300 Answer from Rain Rainforest Forest Floor---only 2% of The sunlight reaches this area

$400 Question from Rain Rainforest What is another way to stabilize the economy in rainforest communities besides selling off their trees as lumber or creating cash crops?

$400 Answer from Rain Rainforest Eco-tourism

$500 Question from Rainforest Unlike the jungles you see in movies, the floor of an undisturbed tropical rainforest has little vegetation. Explain why it lacks vegetation

$500 Answer from Rainforest The constant raining leeches away The surface minerals making the Ground mineral poor and the forest Floor only received 2% sunlight so Plants do not grow well when there is So much competition

$100 Question Tropical Rainforest Where do you find Tropical rainforests?

$100 Answer from Tropical Rainforests Along the Equator

$200 Question Tropical Rainforest Where is the largest tropical rainforest?

Amazon. $300 Question Tropical Rainforest

$300 Question Tropical Rainforest Warm temperatures and high humidity cotribute to the rapid breakdown of organic matter by ___________________?

$300 Answer Tropical Rainforests By Decomposers

$400 Question from Tropical Rainforests In the Movie The Medicine Man What was Dr. Campbell looking For?

$400 Answer Tropical Rainforests The cure for cancer

$500 Question Tropical Rainforests In Tropical rainforests, animals Are being ____________ In their niche?

$500 Answer Tropical Rainforest Speciated due to compeition

$100 Question Deforestation What is the difference between Slash and Burn and Clear Cutting

$100 Answer Deforestation Slash and burn is when trees are removed and burned on site for no other use Clear cutting is when trees are removed and taken to lumber mill

$200 Question Deforestation Why are the trees removed In rainforests?

$200 Answer Deforestation Cash crops like coffee, palm oil To build roads for oil drilling To replace with grasses to feed cattle

$300 Question Deforestation Why is it such an impact to deforest a Rainforest?

$300 Answer from Deforestation 80% of the Earth’s organisms Live there Reduces the amount of water (no transpiration for hydrologic cycle)

$400 Question Deforestation Why does the harvesting Of Mahogany trees destroy Up to 27 other trees?

$400 Answer Deforestation Mahogany trees do not grow in large groups but in groves of other trees so when it is cut down they take other trees along with it PLUS the road made to get to these trees requires others to be destroyed.

$500 Question Deforestation What can people do to combat Deforestation of rainforests?

$500 Answer Deforestation Not purchase products made from rainforest trees; Purchase FREE TRADE items Purchase items that support alternative uses of rainforest products Eco-Tourism

$100 Question Impacts What type of threat is having the greatest impact on Biodiversity in rainforests?

$100 Answer Impacts Habitat Loss

$200 Question Impacts What are two threats to the Earth if rainforests no longer exist?

$200 Answer Impacts Climate Change (getting warmer) No new oxygen being generated (lungs of the planet)

$300 Question Impact Name two benefits of the rainforest to the ecosystem In which it lives?

$300 Answer Impacts Absorbs water to prevent flooding; Provides oxygen to the planet Cleans carbon out of the air

$400 Question Impacts List two abiotic factors that are Responsible For the biodiversity of tropical rainforests

$400 Answer Impacts 12 hours of sunlight Constant temperature Large amount of rainfall

$500 Question Impacts What is the greatest danger Of loosing the tropical rainforest?

$500 Answer Impacts Over 80% of pharmaceutical dugs Come from rainforest of which 25% Can not be replicated in the lab Over 50% of organisms call the Tropical rainforest home

$100 Question from Misc What percentage of the rain Forest is left on the island of Madagascar?

$100 Answer from Misc 10%

$200 Question fro Misc Why are animals in a Tropical rain forest Mostly small in size?

$200 Answer from Misc Because of the competition For space, habitat, and food

$300 Question from Misc Since 1950, what percentage of Earth’s rainforests have been lost To deforestation?

$300 Answer from Misc 60%

$400 Question from Misc What are epiphytes?

$400 Answer from Misc Plants that uses no soil and Gets its nutrients from the air And rain water coming down the Trunk of the tree

$500 Question from Misc In the movie JUNGLES why were the Elephants gathering at the water hole?

$500 Answer from Misc For the mineral rich clay (like vitamins)

Final Jeopardy List all four levels of the rain forest and Provide an example of at least one TROPICAL Organism that lives in each layer.

Final Jeopardy Answer Forest Floor—ferns Understory—epiphytes, ants Canopy—monkeys, lepoard Emergent Layer--birds