Rainforests - Did You Know? Cards · Rainforests - Did You Know? Cards Author: Mark Warner Subject: Teaching Ideas () Created Date: 20130323185616Z

Ques%on: What is so powerful itcould kill up to 20 people?Answer: The poison inthe skin of one poisonarrow frog!

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Rainforests are home to more than half of the animals, plants and other living things in the world. However, they only cover one sixteenth of the Earth's land!

Some of the biggest trees in rainforests are over 1,000 years old.


A parson's chameleon has a long, s%cky tongue which it shoots out of its mouth to catch food.

Each year, it rains on about 180 days in London, but on more than 300 days in some rainforests!


90% of the world's monkeys live in rainforests.

A sloth only produces droppings about once a week!


The biggest snakes in the world live in rainforests. Some pythons can swallow prey that is the size of a pig!

Some rainforest plants are carnivorous, which means they eat meat!


An adult panda is bigger than an adult human. But a baby panda weighs less than an apple!

There aren't many plants on the forest floor because it is so dark.


Bananas were first found in rainforests. The bud in this photo will unfold. The flowers inside will turn into bananas.

Every second, an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is cut down.


Two-‐thirds of the Earth's fresh water is in the Amazon rainforest.The Amazon river is 6,400km long!

The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat.It has a body the size of a bumblebee!


Many foods that we eat were originally discovered in the rainforests, including mangoes, bananas, chocolate, coffee and vanilla.

The world's longest insects live in south-‐east Asia. They are s%ck insects and can be 30cm in length (and 55cm with their legs stretched out)!


Vampire bats drink the blood of sleeping mammals. But they rarely drink enough to hurt their vic%ms!

There are 330 different types of parrot in the world.


2,000 tropical forest plants have been shown to be helpful in trea%ng cancer.

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Rainforests - Did You Know? Cards · Rainforests - Did You Know? Cards Author: Mark Warner Subject: Teaching Ideas () Created Date: 20130323185616Z