How it works
Rainforest in bubble letters on one sideways sheet in Fredoka. Tropical Rainforest, Deforestation, the four layers and an animal or two for each layer wait in the row under the sheet.
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Tropical Rainforest and Deforestation
Tropical / Rainforest stacks on two lines and prints exactly as tall as Rainforest alone; Temperate / Rainforest comes out a shade smaller. Deforestation, thirteen letters on one line, prints smallest of the ready words. Rain / Forest, the two-word spelling, prints about 1.6 times as tall as the single word.
The four layers, top to bottom
Emergent / Layer: a few giant trees above the rest, home of the Crowned / Eagle. Canopy: the roof, with the Toucan, Spider / Monkey and Kinkajou, and Epiphytes such as Bromeliads on the branches. Understory: the Poison Dart / Frog and Boa / Constrictor. Forest / Floor: the Okapi, Tapir and Gorilla. Lianas, Buttress / Roots, Biodiversity, Amazon / Basin and Congo / Rainforest have sheets too.
- Only the emergent layer belongs to tropical rainforests alone; a temperate rainforest has the other three.
- Fredoka keeps the R, the a and the o white and closes the e; with Look set to Outline all four stay white.
- Tapir and Okapi, five letters each, print tallest of the ready words.
Questions and answers
How do you draw rainforest in bubble letters?
Pencil the ten letters with wide gaps, or Rain over Forest. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep the loops of the R, the a and the o open and a slit in the e, then rub out the pencil and color.
Is rainforest one word or two?
The dictionary's main entry is the single word, rainforest, with rain forest as an alternative form. The word is a translation of the German Regenwald.
How much sunlight reaches the rainforest floor?
About 2 percent. Only about 5 percent of the sunlight that falls on the canopy gets through to the understory, where plants have often evolved much larger leaves to catch it.
What is deforestation?
Clearing and destroying a forest, or a stand of trees, so the land can go to another use, such as farms, ranches or towns.