1 How much of the Earth's original forest remains pristine and undisturbed?
a. 1/2
b. 3/4
c. 1/5
d. 1/8

2 Where can you find the largest single expanse of temperate rainforest?
a. Alaska
b. Pakistan
c. Uruguay
d. Russia

3 A square metre of rainforest can support how many kilograms of living material (biomass)?
a. 60-100 kg
b. 45-80 kg
c. 120-170 kg
d. 20-30 kg

4 African rainforests contain more than half that continent's animal and plant species. How much of the total area of the continent do they cover?
a. 20-25%
b. 70%
c. 60-65%
d. 5-7%

5 Which tree species is the most harvested of those in the Budongo Forest in Uganda?
a. Teak
b. Mahogany
c. Chestnut
d. Palm

  6 How many species of fungus grow in boreal forests worldwide?
a. 5,000
b. 650
c. 1,000,000
d. 700,500

7 'Orangutan' means 'person of the forest' in which language?
a. Arabic
b. Mandarin
c. Malay
d. Urdu

8 Bamboo is actually a member of the grass family and can grow very quickly. How much per day?
a. 38 cm
b. 2 metres
c. 10 cm
d. 84 cm

9 Quinine, a medicine used to treat malaria, is extracted from the bark of trees from which kind of forest?
a. Bamboo forest
b. Amazon rainforest
c. Cloud forest
d. Temperate deciduous forest

 
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