Rainforest Explorers (Amazing Journeys)

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Some rainforests are threatened by massive hydroelectric power projects, where dams flood acres of land. Many of these insects are the principal diet of the canopy’s reptiles, including the "flying" draco lizards of Southeast Asia. is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean. Get your students excited about lessons and learning about the Rainforest with this collection of the rainforest Explorer role-play resources and materials for KS1.

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Although Mary Seacole earned fame as a “black Florence Nightingale,” the British-Jamaican nurse considered travel the ultimate antidote for the limiting Victorian era. Rampant deforestation could cause many important rainforest habitats to disappear completely within the next hundred years. He has spent more than 50 years exploring some of the world’s most remote and fantastic subterranean systems and has served on nearly every one of his sport’s governing bodies, helping decide how caving records are kept and how titles such as “biggest” and “deepest” are bestowed.The rich biodiversity in the canopy and quick decomposition from fungi and bacteria prevent the accumulation of nutrient-rich humus. These, usually at higher elevations, were older, relatively dry caves that bored through the heart of Mulu’s mountains. While the expedition had three years’ worth of supplies, all the provisions had been sealed with lead, which almost certainly contaminated the sailors’ food. Beneath the emergent layer is the canopy, a deep layer of vegetation roughly six meters (20 feet) thick.

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The gallery was pristine; it had been discovered only days before, and I was one of the first ever to enter it. Perfect for creating a topic hook to start a jungle or rainforest topic or for a 'Wow' activity to excite and enthuse children!

From the forest floor, the Mbuti hunt fish and crabs from the Ituri River (a tributary of the Congo), as well as gather berries from low-lying shrubs. In 1955, 67-year-old Emma Gatewood emerged from the Appalachian Trail as the first woman to hike all 2,050 miles in one season by herself. The rest of us explored below, pressing for-ward, sounding the planet’s largest known enclosed space. He founded the first permanent European settlements in Canada, and explored many lakes and rivers in the interior lands from early age to his death. The canopy blocks winds, rainfall, and sunlight, creating a humid, still, and dark environment below.

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Frizzle takes the reader on a journey with vivid full-color photographs that are enhanced with the familiar illustrations of the Magic School Bus series. As their name implies, temperate rainforests are much cooler than their tropical cousins, averaging between 10° and 21°C (50° and 70°F). She was always an advocate of leaving historic relics and wonders in the protection of their home nations. Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier were among the most renowned polar explorers of the 19th century, and their disappearance triggered a decades-long series of rescue missions.In an eight-year travel, she explored North and South America, Oceania, Australia, East Asia, and India.

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Tropical rainforests are so warm and moist that they produce as much as 75 percent of their own rain through evaporation and transpiration.Subsequent books revolve around similarly voracious voyages through challenging landscapes, including a three-month slog with a mule in the Ethiopian highlands and a 1,300-mile trek through the high Peruvian Andes with her nine-year-old daughter. Animals that can’t fly or glide are usually quite small—they need to be light enough to be supported by a tree’s slender uppermost layers. Their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries when they were active and main areas of exploration are listed below.