Article: Biome survival: Part II.(CHART-READING SKILLS (2))

Article: Biome survival: Part I.(CHART-READING SKILLS (1))
Science World;  March 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... grasslands have hot summers and cold winters. Tropical Rain Forest The toucan's long Many trees sport Found near Earth's ... competing 2.5 meters (8 feet) a for similar year. The rain forest resources. supports the world's greatest diversity of plants ...

Article: The rain forest's Cultural Survival
The Boston Globe;  February 5, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... gathered by tribal natives of the Amazonian rain forest. This year, Cultural Survival expects ... employees." Popular concern for the rain forest may be a passing fad, Clay admits ... Clay, "then we can create a taste for rain-forest products and a demand that will not ...

Article: SCHOOL'S RAIN FOREST IS HANDS-ON LESSON NORTHERN ...
The Virginian Pilot;  May 4, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Shores Elementary School. Welcome to the rain forest, Suffolk style. In celebration of ... students of Northern Shores learned how the rain forest and its inhabitants are being endangered and why they should help preserve the rain forest as a natural resource. This was a hands ...

Article: Rescue: Students buy rain forest tract At Lincoln ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... sneeze very slowly. "Sloths live in the rain forest, which is really hot, humid and sticky ... also know that at the present rate of rain forest destruction, those slow-moving tree ... raised $124.29 to buy 3 acres of rain forest in Paraguay. The acreage is being purchased ...

Article: Animals of the rain forest.
Weekly Reader, Edition 2 (including Science Spin);  April 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... some of the animals of a tropical rain forest. Before You Read Ask students: What makes a tropical rain forest different from other environments ... that live in the emergent layer of a rain forest nocturnal--active at night tropical ...

Article: Discover the rain forest!
Weekly Reader, Edition 2 (including Science Spin);  March 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Many animals live in a tropical rain forest. Some of them have bright colors. The red-eyed tree ... of plants grow there too. Read about the layers of a rain forest. Rain Forest Layers The emergent layer is the top layer. It is made ...

Unit 1: Rain Forest.(Brief Article)
Science Matters: Rain Forest, Moon, Rocks, and Machines, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... Background Information One of the newest rain forest exhibits is "Amazonia," staged at ... sensing the sounds and smells of a rain forest, and sometimes even dodging the birds ... s laboratory. Another artificial rain forest is the glass-enclosed tropical rain ...