Rainforest

1. The soil above the stony ground.
5. The method in which people clear land by cutting down patches of forest and burning the debris.
8. Name given to the group of people who live in the rainforests of Central Africa.
10. The forest layer below the canopy that includes small trees & young canopy trees.
11. Occurs when the very last member of any species dies out.
12. A community of people who live together with a shared way of life.
14. A biologically interdependent region that may be as small as a pond or as big as a planet.
17. The destruction or clearing of a forest; the long-term or permanent removal of forests.
18. Is the first level of a rainforest. This is the ground layer made up of tree roots, soil and decaying matter.
20. It is an imaginary line between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere also known as the Tropic of Cancer.

2. Is a type of race or breed. A group of plants or animals that are able to produce new plants or animals sharing the same traits of its predecessor.
3. The heating of the lower atmosphere that occurs when carbon dioxide traps heat that would otherwise escape into space.
4. The third layer of a forest formed from the lofty parts of trees.
5. The using of products of nature in a way that will not permanently destroy them for future use.
6. Because the soil is not very fertile in rainforests, the taller trees have developed these.
7. Rainforest tree leaf-size category of 125 – 250 mm in length.
9. Collective name for different types of trees that form swampy forests.
13. The uppermost layer of trees in the rainforest,also known as the dominants.
15. Fruit that grows in Indonesia forests and is a source of iron and vitamin C.
16. A plant that grows on other plants, but does not take nutrition from the host.
19. Climbing Vine.