Rescue in the Rainforest Vocabulary Quiz

a wet forest with many types of plants and animals

• rainforest
• habitat
• deforestation
• frail

After the playground near my house went through a transformation, it looked _______________.

• totally different
• the same as it always had

sure to fail or to die

• rainforest
• transformation
• doomed
• habitat

animals that kill and eat other animals

• doomed
• frail
• predators
• rainforest

But it seemed that the little sloth was _________________.

• rainforest
• transformation
• predators
• doomed

But the rainforests are disappearing because of ___________________.

• transformation
• predators
• frail
• deforestation

Which of the following could be a lizard’s habitat?

• outer space
• a hot, dry desert

Circle the sentence that best follows this one: Sloths live in the rainforest in Central and South America.

• They spend most of their time high up in the trees
• They use their long claws to dig in the hot desert sand.

the place where a plant or an animal makes its home

• doomed
• transformation
• habitat
• predator

During deforestation, many of the trees where orangutans live are being _______________.

• cut down
• planted and cared for