Rainforest Webquest

Rainforest Hotlist of References - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listtropicalst.html

Directions - follow the links below to discover the characteristics of the rainforest

1. What are the two types of rainforest ? Where are they located? http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/NewGeog/Habitats/index1.htm

2. Answer the following general questions about rainforests.

What are the conditions in the rainforest?
Where are rainforests usually located ?

3. What is a temperate rainforest? To answer this question and more Visit Washington State and the Olympic Peninsula. http://www.uhaul.com/supergraphics/rainforest/graphic.html

Click on Ecosystem on the bottom. At the top of the picture is the page of a book. Click on the page to discover the characteristics of the rainforest.

What are the predominant conifers?
What are the characteristics of the forest?
How much rain falls in the winter?
How many species of plants and animals live in the rainforest.
Follow the directions on the page - Click on wildlife first. Click on the page in the left hand corner
What types of animals are found in this area?

4. What type of rainforest is found in Australia? Follow the link http://www.wildlife-australia.com/

a. Describe these areas of the rainforest

canopy

understory

forest floor

b. What kinds of marsupial are found in the rainforests of Australia?

c. List six plants found in the Australian rainforest.

5. What are some unusual plants found in the rainforests of the world? Travel to the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/plants/

6. How have plants adapted to life in the rainforest? Follow the link above on plant adaptations to discover the answer.

List at least three examples.

7. Visit the African rainforest link http://www.africa-rainforest.org/

Describe the monkeys and the primates of the African rainforest. List them below.

http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Animals/Primates/

http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/africa/rfanimals.htm

Listen to the Colobus Monkey call.

Describe the life of the Lowland Gorilla. Where are these animals found?

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Gorilla/g._gorilla_gorilla.html

8. Visit the Amazon. http://www.junglephotos.com/

On the main menu click on lots more to find out where the Amazon river and rainforest are found.

What peoples are found in this area?

What countries are found in this area?

What unusual plants and animals are found in the tropical rainforest?

9. Visit the Monteverde Cloud Forest. Check out the web site. http://www.cloudforestalive.org/

What is a cloud forest? http://www.cloudforestalive.org/library/

Listen to the sounds in the rain forest. ( home)

http://www.cloudforestalive.org/library/sounds.f1ml

What type of research is continuing in the rainforest?

Which of the Rainforests would you like to visit and why?

Washington State

Amazon

African

Australian

Cloud Forest - Costa Rica