Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Across
- 2. The forest provides many products useful to Man like ________________ poles for drying our clothes
- 6. The Malayan __________________ also known as the flying lemur has membranes between its legs and tail, enabling to glide from tree to tree
- 7. In the closed forest canopy, fruit eating animals are the main _________________ agents. Without them, some plant species with eventually become extinct.
- 9. Many rainforest species have __________________ leaf tips known as drip tips to drain off water quickly
- 10. The ___________________ has a long tubular mouth and long tongue that allows it to reach far into any mounds
- 12. _____________ hoist themselves toward the light in the forest canopy by means of twining stems, hooks, tendrils, spines and root suckers
- 13. For a better chance of survival, fruits and seeds move away from the _________________ plant to reduce competition and to expand the range of the species
- 14. There are ____________-_________________ species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
- 16. Bukit Timah is Singapore's ______________ hill.
- 17. Plants depend on ____________________ to make food but with only one percent of it reaches the forest floor, the competition for it in the forest is intense
Down
- 1. The Common ____________ Civet's diet consists mainly of fruits and occasional small animals
- 3. Plant species growing in the swamps have ________________ roots to take in air from the ground and also provide support to the trees
- 4. Beetles fed on the _________________ of early cycads and were the first to be used by flowering plants before the evolution of nectar that involved bees, flies, butterflies and birds
- 5. Animals in the forest ______________________ themselves prevent predators from eating them
- 8. The _______________ layer is made up of forest giants with height soaring to 71-80 metros
- 11. The rainforest is able to thrive by storing most of the ________________ in its ecosystem
- 15. ___________________ and discriminate clearing of forests in the early years that led to the extinction of many of the larger mammals