Answering these questions

will help you understand the rainforests

What are the differences and similarities between temperate and tropical rainforests? 

Which type of rainforest would you rather live in? 

Why?

You are visiting the rainforest in Guatemala. Look around you. 

What do you see? 

What animals live here? 

How is the rainforest in Guatemala different from the rainforest you visited in Indonesia last week?

You’ve just come back from your visit to the rainforests of the world.

What was the strangest animal you saw?

Why?

What was the biggest animal?

The most dangerous animal?

How many different species of animals are there in the rainforests?

The rainforest is home to millions of different kinds of insects. Imagine you are a parasol ant at the top of a tree in the rainforest.

What do you do every day?

What do you eat?

Are you proportionately stronger or weaker than a human being?

Why?

You are a doctor trying to find a cure for AIDS. You think the cure might be a vine in the rainforest.

What are the problems you might encounter in trying to find and harvest this vine in order to test it?

You are lost in the rainforest. What are you going to eat?

Name at least five different foods you might find in the rainforest.

What do the people who live in the rainforest eat?

Is their food very different from the things you eat every day?

Is it the same?

Do you think you would like their food?

Why or why not?

What is the third largest rainforest in the world and why is it in danger?

What are some other reasons why rainforests are in danger?

How many acres of rainforest do we lose every day?

If someone asked you to do something to save the rainforests, what actions could you take?