Exploring the Rainforest – Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Our Visit from the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
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Read the following paragraph:
More than two thirds of the world’s plant species are found in the tropical rainforests: plants that provide shelter and food for rainforest animals as well as taking part in the gas exchanges which provide much of the world’s oxygen supply.
Rainforest plants live in a warm humid environment that allows an enormous variation rare in more temperate climates: some like the orchids have beautiful flowers adapted to attract the profusion of forest insects.
Competition at ground level for light and food has lead to evolution of plants which live on the branches of other plants, or even strangle large trees to fight for survival.
The aerial plants often gather nourishment from the air itself using so-called ‘air roots’;. The humidity of the rainforest encourages such adaptations which would be impossible in most temperate forests with their much drier conditions. – Plants of the Rainforest
Bromeliads
PLANTS OF THE RAINFOREST:
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- What is a rainforest?
- Where are most rainforests?
- What can be done to preserve rainforests?
- Why should we preserve them?
- What are the basic four layers of the rainforest? Briefly explain each layer.
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Types of Plants in the Rainforest:
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Bromeliads
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Buttress Roots
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Carnivorous
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Epiphytes
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Lianas
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Orchids
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Saprophytes
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Stilt/Prop Roots
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Strangler Vines
LET’S ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN OUR NOTEBOOKS
- Write a short explanation for each type of plant.
- What examples can you find of these types of plants in the following photographs we took at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens?
- What is an adaptation and why do plants need to adapt to their environment?
Our Trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
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