Natural Vegetation & Tropical Rainforest Characteristics (NA)

True or False: Natural vegetation is plant life which covers parts of the world without human interference.

• True

• False

Select the options which show examples of the types of natural vegetation. (You can select more than one option.)

• Tropical Rainforest

• Gardens

• Mangrove forest

• Temperate coniferous forest

• Ocean

True or False: Places that have a Tropical climate experience high rainfall and high temperatures throughout the year.

• True

• False

True or False: Singapore does not experience the Tropical climate.

• True

• False

Mark with an x or circle the places where tropical rainforests can be found.

Tropical rainforests do not shed all of their leaves at particular times of the year. They continuously grow new leaves to replace older leaves. In other words, tropical rainforests are _. (fill in the blank with one word).

True or False: Because of the favorable climatic conditions (high rainfall and high temperature), tropical rainforests contain a very large variety of plant species.

• True

• False

Label the 3 layers of the tropical rainforest.

List the all the characteristics of the emergent layer.

List the all the characteristics of the canopy layer.