GEOSYSTEM

Rainforests

• Climate
• Types of Rainforest
• Structure
• Characteristics

Maps

• South America
• Brazil
• Central America
• North America
• Africa
• Southeast Asia
• Australia

Plants

• Brazil Nut Tree
• Cecropia tree
• Cocoa tree
• Fig tree
• Forest cucumber
• Gongora orchid
• Heliconia
• Liana
• Mahogany tree
• Parkia tree
• Strangler Figs
• Tank bromeliad
• Vines

• Agouti
• Ant bird
• Bromeliad frog
• Bush dog
• Caimen
• Capuchin monkey
• Emerald tree Boa
• Fruit bat
• Giant Otter
• Harpy eagle
• Howler monkey
• Jaguar
• Piranha
• Red faced
  spider monkey
• Scarlet macaw
• Tamandua
• Three-toed
  tree sloth
• Toucan

• Army ant
• Azteca ant
• Cecropia cricket
• Fig wasp
• Giant damselfly
• Leaf-cutter ant
• Morpho butterfly
• Orchid bee
• Parasitic fly
• Sloth Moth

Field

• Claude Gascon
  -On Frogs
• Susan Laurance
  -Rainforest Do’s
  & Don’ts
• Heraldo Vasconcelos
  -On Leaf-Cutter Ants
• Ellen Andresen
  -on Dung Beetles
  & Howler Monkeys
• Marcela Santamaria
  -Canopy Ecology
• Bill Laurance
  -Working In
  The Rainforest
• Emilio Bruna
  -Heliconia &
  Other Plants
• Rita Mesquita
  Forest
  Researcher
• Mario Cohn-Haft
  Bird Expert
• Cristina Cox
  World Beneath
  the Canopy
• Marcelo Lima
  Small Mammal
  Expert

• Tom Lovejoy
  -Smithsonian

• Costa Rica 1998
• Millbrook in Peru

• Geoffrey Haines Stiles
  -Project Director
• Ann Devereaux
  -Web Correspondent

• Researcher
  Q & A
• Classroom
  Connection
• Collaborative
  Projects
• Remote Sensing
  Activity
• Discuss-rainforest
• Updates-rainforest
• On-Air
• Web Chats

• Broadcasts
  • Program 1
  • Program 2
  • Program 3
• Bibliography
• Web Links

• Registration
• Teacher’s
  Guide
• Overview
• Assessment
  Information
• Mentors &
  PTK Advocates
• Lesson
  Plans
• Multimedia
  Component