Rainforest

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/rainforest

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the biodiversity estimate?Home to 40% to 75% of all known terrestrial species
2. What is the medicinal discoveries?Over 25% of natural medicines are derived from rainforest plants

Stratification: The layering of vegetation in a forest ecosystem, from the forest floor to the canopy.
Evapotranspiration: The process where water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants.
Biodiversity Hotspot: A biogeographic region with a significant amount of endemic biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation.
Agroforestry: A land-use system that integrates trees and shrubs on farmlands and in the landscape around them.