NATURAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION

PRODUCT

MEDICINAL PLANT CULTIVATE NATIVE

1. _____________________ To preserve, to maintain, to protect

2. _____________________ Materials found in nature used to make a product

3. _____________________ Found locally, characteristic of a region

4. _____________________ To plant, to garden, to till

5. _____________________ Stocks, goods, merchandise

6. _____________________ Plants that can cure diseases

Put the vocabulary words in the sentence where they belong.

1. _____________________ is important in order to keep land and animals healthy and productive.

2. Did you know that many fruits and vegetables are ___________________ to the rain forests?

3. Latex (liquid rubber) is a _____________________ found in the rubber trees of the rainforest.

4. A rainforest periwinkle flower is a ___________________ used to help cure illness.

5. In Brazil, they ___________________ nuts, cashews, and the cocoa that's used to make chocolate.

6. Chocolate is a __________________ that is sold all around the world.

RAINFOREST VOCABULARY CHALLENGE Grades 6th-8th

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word that best matches each definition.

1. What is an abiotic factor?

2. What is a biotic factor?

DIRECTIONS: The following list is to be entered into a Venn diagram, where the circles are labeled ABIOTIC and BIOTIC. Do not enter any list items into the intersection at this point.

LIST:

• Clouds

• Tiger • Clock • Water • Fish • Paper • Glass • Aluminum • Wooden Ruler

•

• Corpse • Oyster • Steak • Pork Chops • Salad • Bread • Plant • Hair

• Finger Nails • Pipe • Cotton Fabric • Wool • Gold • Plastic • Blueberries • Air

ABIOTIC BIOTIC

BACKGROUND: Abiotic and biotic factors together make up an ecosystem. Abiotic or non-living factors are those such as climate and geography. Biotic factors are living organisms.

ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC CHALLENGE Grades 6th-8th

RAINFOREST WORD SEARCH GRADES 6TH – 8TH

E E H U N D E R S T O R Y Y F

N X T R B T C F P B S U R A B

D T W Y A G H N A L R O B E O

A I O P H I F G A R O A M A S

N N R O S Y N M I L M E Z H I

G C G N K R I F F L R I R I K

E T R A X N E T O G N U N I L

R V E C A B S Y E R B U X G A

E I D K E E Y N A S E I S A C

D N N T R W T T R L J S Q X I

G E U O L O G G I N G A T S P

S S F V J U N O Z A M A L Y O

S W A M P S O W N E S G E Z R

F F Y T R P R F V V L Y U Y T

L L A F N I A R G D Q I L U E

DIRECTIONS: Find these words in the word search below.

Rainforest Understory Emergent Forest floor Sunlight

Shrub Amazon Animals Canopy Logging

Rainfall Undergrowth Layers Swamps