rainforest activity packet

7/30/2019 Rainforest Activity Packet

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Supermarket Adventure

Part 1: While exploring your local Supermarket (or your own cupboards), make a list below of products

you find containing palm oil.

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Part 2: ^ products

from companies that have shown commitments to sustainable palm oil.

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Circle any products that are found in both Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 3: From the list above, pick companies that you would like to thank by

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D them to the Philadelphia

Zoo along with your puzzle piece (page 14 of the Activity Packet).

Palm Oil

Alternate Names

Foods Non-Food

Cocoa butter

equivalent

Cocoa butter

substitute

Palm olein

Palm stearine

Palm kernel oil

Palmitate

Sodium laure

sulphate

Ammonium

laurel sulpha

Saponified e

guineenis

Ethylene glyc

monostearat

Ethylhexyl

palmitate

Fatty alcoho

sulphates

Glyceryl stea

Isopropyl

palmitate

Or any product with a W

Companies Committed

Sustainable Palm Oil

Archer Daniels

Midland

CompanyAvon Products

Colgate-

Palmolive

ConAgra Foods

General Mills

H.J.Heinz

Company

Henkel

Interbake Foods

Johnson &

Johnson

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Butter

Kellog Inc.

Kraft FoodsLindt and

Sprngli

>K

Mars

D

Nestl

P&G (Procto

Gamble)PepsiCo Inc.

S.C.Johnson

Son, Inc.

Seventh

Generation

Stratas Food

The Body Sho

The Hershey

Company

The Sun

Products Co.

Twincraft So

Unilever

United Biscu

US Food GroVentura Food

Walmart (privlabels only)

WhiteWave

Foods Co.

*This list is not complete and subject to

change. Consult the RSPO website.

http://www.rspo.org/en/


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This packet will help you through your journey to earning a Rainforest Hero Badge. Use the information

packet as a guide on what to complete in this packet. Good luck and have fun!

Glossary: Some words to know.

Arboreal: An animal which lives in the trees. Most rainforest animals are arboreal.

Biodiversity: The number of species that live in one place. Rainforests have high biodiversity.

Canopy: The area in the forest which includes the tops of most trees. Many climbing animals live here.

Cloud Forest: A type of rainforest found on high mountainsides. It is usually misty, cooler, and foggy.

Decompose: The process where a dead living thing breaks down, usually into soil and nutrients.

Ecosystem: The interactions of all living things in an area.

Emergents: The very tallest trees in the forest, usually towering above most others.

Endangered: A species in threat of extinction.

Equator: The imaginary circle around the Earth lying exactly between the north and south poles.

Extinct: A species where every last individual has disappeared. Extinction is permanent.

Forest Floor: The ground in the forest. Very little light reaches here because of the thick canopy above.

Habitat: A place where all the things a species needs to live (food, water, shelter, and space) is found.

Humid: Damp air with a lot of water in it. Rainforests are very humid.

Jungle: Rainforest that is very thick with vines and shrubs. This usually happens after canopy trees are

removed or fall down, allowing sunlight to reach the forest floor.

Rainfall: A type of precipiation where water droplets fall from clouds. Areas of high rain create

rainforests, allowing trees to grow and plants to flourish for animals to use.

Tropics: The area surrounding the equator. Temperatures are usually very warm and daylength is

about the same all year.

Understory: The area in the forest between the canopy and forest floor made up of tree

trunks, vines, and shrubs.


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What makes a Rainforest?

Rainforests need two things: rain and trees. There are both temperate and tropicalrainforests. In this

badge, we will focus on tropical rainforests, the more famous of the two.

The temperature of a tropical rainforest must stay above an average 64F every day, but most are much

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They lie in the

tropics, the area around the Ea

The rainforest must also get at least 66 inches of rain in a year. Use the ruler below to draw lines across

the page marking heights listed in the table below. Compare it to the height of the objects and animals.

Location Yearly Rainfall

(in inches)

Minimum for a Rainforest 66

Average for a Rainforest 78

Amazon Rainforest 390

Average for a Desert 4

Philadelphia Zoo 41

Your town: ______________ ____

Use an internet search on your local weather service.

450

425

400

375

350

325

300

275

250

225

200

175

150

125

100

75

50

25

Inches

Pigeons stand

5 inches tall

Humans stand

around 65 inches tall

Male giraffes can stand

240 inches tall

A three-story house is

around 430 inches tall

Philadelphia Zoo


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Rainforest Layers

Look at the layers of the rainforest below. Different animals are found in the different layers.

Draw a line from the animal to where it most likes to live in the forest!

Emergent Layer

Canopy

Understory

Forest floor

Orangutan

Scarlet

Macaw

Red-footedTortoise

Rodrigues

Fruit Bat

Asian

Elephant

Black Spider

Monkey

Ocelot

Red-eyed Tree

Frog

Golden Silk

Spider

Okapi

ForestFloor:AsianElephant,Red-footedTortoise,Okapi

Understory:GoldenSilkSpider,Ocelot,Red-eyedTreeFrog

Canopy:Orangutan,BlackSpiderMonkey

EmergentLayer:^DZ

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Animals that walk only on the

ground.

go too far off the ground.

Animals that climb high, usually

looking for fruit.

Animals that live in the tallest

trees, usually flying there.


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Unscramble some of their names below, and then use the numbered letters to form a major reason for saving

rainforests!

Ages 8+


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Split up the Banana Split

Did you know that your ice cream sundae might have almost a dozen ingredients from the rainforest?

Put the letters below in the boxes next to the picture of the rainforest ingredient!

A. Banana B. Sugar Cane C. Vanilla Bean

D. Cashew Nut E. Cocoa Bean

Ages 5-8


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Rainforest Field Guide

Tropical rainforests are widespread throughout the world. The map below shows where they can be found.

Match the number to the name of the rainforest below.

___ Amazon Rainforest ___ West African Rainforest ___ Central American Rainforest

___ Australasian Rainforest ___ Indian Subcontinent ___ Madagascan Rainforest

___ The Congo ___ Southeast Asian Rainforest

Even though they cover only about 5% of the Earth, they are believed to have up to 75% of all living things!

Countless kinds of flowers, trees, mammals, insects, fungi, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and bacteria all make therainforest their home. This is called biodiversity.

On the following pages, research some species from the rainforest. Orangutan has been done as an example.

Four more species from Indonesia have been suggested, and the rest are left to you! Choose animals that you

are interested in, are very endangered, or that you just like!

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Orangutan

From: Sumatra and Borneo

Facts:

The largest animal in the world that lives in trees!

They are strong and smart. They are apes, like gorillas and

chimpanzees.

Food: Home in the Forest:

Status: Critically Endangered

Rhinoceros Hornbill

From:

Facts:


Status:

Fruit

Draw me:


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Clouded Leopard

From:

Facts:


Status:

Sumatran Rhino

From:

Facts:


Status:

Draw me: Draw me:


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Green Tree Python

From:

Facts:


Status:

____________________

From:

Facts:


Status:

Draw me: Draw me:


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Leaves of

Gratitude


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Rainforest Puzzle Piece

On the puzzle piece above, please write, draw, or collage a personal message about why you want to save

rainforests. Be creative! Your piece may be featured at the Philadelphia Zoo.

When complete, please mail to:

Philadelphia Zoo

c/o Overnights and Scouts

3400 West Girard Ave.

Philadelphia, PA 19104-1196

[email protected]

Name:

Age:

Troop or Pack:

Hometown:

Up
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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