Vocabulary
1) Erosion- The weathering away of earth's surface by water, wind, ice, or other things.
2) Drip tip- An elongatedleaf tip from which excess waterdrips off, as found in plants of the rainforest.
3) Epiphytes- A plant that grows on top of or is supported by another plant but does not depend on it for nutrition.
4) Shallow root system- The roots of a strong tree which reach all the way down to give nutrients to the tree.
5) Vines- A plant that supports itself by climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.
6) lianas- climbing, woody, tropical vines.
7) emergent layer- Tallest layer in the rainforest. The tallest trees of
the rainforest live here and they get a lot of sunlight.
8) canopy layer- primary layer of the rainforest(just below emergent
layer). Most of the animals live here.
9) understory- layer just below the canopy, very little sunshine
reaches here.
10) forest floor- lowest layer of the rainforest, this layer is very
dark and hardly any animals live but some plants like fungi.
11) water system- a river and all its branches.
12) flowering plants- plants that produce real seeds, these are the
most known land plants.
13) non-flowering plants- plants that do not produce other seeds
or other flowers.
