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Focus: Rainforest Ecosystems, Biomes, Food Web
Essential question: How do the animals of the environment of the upperstory, canopy, and forest floor, interact with each other in the food chain based on their presence as a consumer, producer, or decomposer?
Rainforests
constant high temperature throughout the year; great
quantities of water; humidity
Poetry activity
Kinkajou. . - I dreamed I was a soft, fluffy kinkajou hanging from the
forest canopy slurping up nectar hungrily.
Producers: trees and plants facts and images
(Trees: lianas; epiphytes; tabebuia; jacaranda; strangler
fig; banyan; rattan;
moriche palms; royal poinciana; Gabon mahogany; orchid; cecropia;
African tulip tree; cannonball tree; giant bamboo; common bamboo;
epiphytic filmy fern; staghorn fern)
[sloths eat cecropia leaves]
Decomposers: Bacteria / fungi / lichens
(polyporus versicolor; polyporus cinnabarinus)
Decomposers: Ants/termites/beetles
(wood-eating animals and recyclers)
[driver ants; army ants (eat insects, small vertebrates, frogs, lizards);
fungus beetles, click beetles, stag beetles, scarab beetles]
Consumers: Insects
[tree hoppers, lantern flies]
Consumers: Spiders
pink-legged tarantula (eats millipedes, insects, sow bugs, other
spiders)
carpenter tarantula (eats amphibians, lizards, snakes, small mammals,
birds)
Consumers: Frogs
(titanus gigantus; Poison Arrow Frogs)
Consumers: Snakes
Consumers: Butterflies
(birdwing butterfly, ulysses butterfly, morpho
butterfly)
Consumers: Birds
[scarlet macaw; blue macaw; orange-winged Amazon grallaria; green toucan
(eats fruit, large insects, small lizards); trumpeters; Brazilian scarlet
tanager; trogon; turacao, sunbird; hummingbird; golden-headed manakin;
crimson topaz, cuckoo; woodpecker; cock-of-the rock; black-faced
hawk]
[Birds of prey: flycatcher; leaf warbler; buzzard; sparrow hawk; bat
falcon; Guyana crested eagle; turkey vulture]
Indices of many animals
Consumers: Creatures in the trees
(Bats, monkeys, sloths eat cecropia leaves)[long-legged bat;
vampire bat]
[howler monkey; spider monkey; squirrel monkey]
Consumers: On the ground
(Cats, rodents, ungulates, mammals)
[anteater, jaguar, marmoset, peccary, tapir, agouti; coatis; ocelot;
jaguarundi; puma]
Consumers: Rodents
(rice rat; spring rat; agouti; prehensile-tailed porcupine; kinkajou;
marmosa; murine oppossum)
Equitorial Africa
Canopy - aboreal monkey; Diana monkey; crowned eagle; guenon;
mandrill; chimpanzee; gorilla
Ungulates: forest antelope; dwarf antelope; buchbuck; bongo
Predators: leopard; civets; genets
Winged: bathawk
Army ants
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