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Rainforest Test questions with 100%correct answers
What is carrying capacity? - correct answer ✔✔The maximum number of individuals of a species that
the habitat can provide for, long term
How does deforestation influence carrying capacity within an ecosystem? - correct answer ✔✔Causes
organisms to leave that habitat and move to the surrounding habitat areas and push the carrying
capacity
In which biome are you most likely to find grasses, zebras, and lions? - correct answer ✔✔Tropical
Grasslands
If the tropics receive more sunlight year-round than any other biome, why are some plants in tropical
rainforests adapted to low levels of sunlight? - correct answer ✔✔Because the trees of the rainforest
form a dome-like structure over the rainforest and it prevents most light from coming and reaching the
floor.
Compare the two types of tropical forests. - correct answer ✔✔Tropical rainforests receive the most
precipitation out of all the biomes while tropical dry forest only receive it during a single wet season. The
trees are widely spaced in a tropical dry forest due to the little rain while in tropical rainforest trees are
almost on top of each other.
Compare and contrast a tropical grassland and a tropical dry forest. - correct answer ✔✔Tropical dry
forest and grasslands mostly have a wet season and that's really the only rain they get. Animals in dry
forest have adaptations and go dormant for a time to help with the less rain while animals in the
grasslands do not.
Name the layers of the rainforest in order starting with the top layer. - correct answer ✔✔Emergent,
Canopy, Understory, Forest floor
Give 2 examples of conditions animals are exposed to in the emergent layer. - correct answer ✔✔Wind
tossing, Hammered by rain
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