The Forest That Makes Its Own Rain

Search “rainforest” and open “The forest that makes the rain.” Read the page and click through the water-cycle steps, then answer each question.

1. 1.What kind of forest do we live in?

   🔎 The opening paragraph.

2. 2.Which mountains does the wet Pacific air hit, forcing it up so it rains?

   🔎 “Where the rain comes from.”

3. 3.What is it called when trees pull up water and breathe it out through their needles?

   🔎 “Where the rain comes from.”

4. 4.Name one of the rivers/streams the rain gathers into.

   🔎 Water-cycle steps → the “Streams” step.

5. 5.How does the forest help keep the streams cold for salmon?

   🔎 “The forest and the fish are one system” → Shade keeps water cold.

6. 6.Which tree is named as our state tree?

   🔎 The “Giants overhead” card.

7. 7.What does the page call a fallen log that can grow a whole row of new trees?

   🔎 The “Giants overhead” card.

Challenge · Grades 7–12

1. 8.Explain how the forest doesn’t just soak up rain but actually helps make it.

   🔎 Second paragraph of “Where the rain comes from.”

2. 9.The Olympic rainforest gets far more rain than our valley. Compare the two amounts given on the page.

   🔎 First paragraph of “Where the rain comes from.”

3. 10.The page calls the rainforest “both our wilderness and our workplace.” How can the forest help “build the classroom”?

   🔎 The “A working forest” section.