The Forest Floor

The emergent layer is characterized by intense sunlight?

Canopy animals include only monkeys and birds?

True or false: The forest floor is the highest layer of a forest?

True or false: The canopy is exposed to a low concentration of sunlight?

True or false: The understory is home to animals such as snakes and jaguars?

Insects can't be found in the emergent layer?

Sun plants prefer shade and may wilt if exposed to full sunlight.

Mutualistic relationships occur only between animals and plants?

Wee wee ants grow fungi in underground caverns to eat?

Cacao and Xate are important shade plants.

Skunks and peccaries use cryptic coloration as a defense mechanism.

Animals in a forest derive their energy from sunlight absorbed by the leaves of forest species.

Apex predators possess specific body parts and behaviors to hunt and capture prey for food?

Aposematic coloration is a defense mechanism that involves using bright colors to suggest danger.

Batesian mimicry is a strategy in which a harmless species mimics a poisonous species.