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Year 4 Reading Challenge Autumn 1

Mrs Khaliq

Hi year 4,

For your reading challenge this half term, read through the following non-fiction text about rainforests.

Rainforest-Text-for-Reading-ChallengeDownload

Answer the following questions in full sentences.

Bronze:

  1. Name two types of rainforest.
  2. Which rainforests are nearer to the equator – temperate or tropical?
  3. What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest?

Silver:

  1. Why are there no rainforests in Antarctica? Explain.
  2. How do animals communicate when they cannot see one another?
  3. Why has the author written the word ‘damp’ in brackets in the ‘Forest Floor’ section?

Gold:

Read the last line carefully. What is you opinion, and why?

Platinum:

Produce your own information text on the Brazilian rainforest, using your own research.

95 responses to “Year 4 Reading Challenge Autumn 1”

  1. Ariyan S.

    Bronze
    1.There are two types of rainforest: tropical (in the tropical warm zone near the Equator) and temperate (in the temperate zone further away from the Equator).
    2.Tropical is near to the Equator because it in the warm zone and Equator means hot.
    3.25% of natural medicines have been found the rainforest.
    Silver
    1.There isn’t a rainforest in Antarctica because it is too, too cold and it doesn’t have leaves.
    2.Animals communicate with each other in many language, using signals, making noise and smelling animals.

  2. Alya M.

    Amazon rainforest
    Tropical rainforest

    The nearest temperate warm zone

    25% medicine found in rainforest

    1. Mrs Jones

      Well done Alya. Take a look at question 2 again please.

  3. Mustafa Z.

    Bronze.
    Tropical and temperate
    Tropical
    25 percent of medicine has been sent in the rainforest
    Silver.
    Because it’s to cold
    Because it’s were animals and plants decompose rot
    They make loud calls
    Because the floor is where dead animals and plants
    Because

    1. Mrs Jones

      Well done👍Good work.

  4. Adrian O.

    The download didn’t work😢 .

    1. Mrs Jones

      Please try again.

  5. Adrian O.

    Platinum:
    40% of South America is the Amazon rainforest.
    Most is in Brazil but also in Ecuador,Peru ,Bolivia etc.
    There are 40,000 plant species, 3,000 fish species, 1,200 bird species and 3,000 types of plants grow,
    Some nutrients comes from the Sahara desert 🏜 in Africa.
    Anacondas live in in the rainforest and the green Anaconda is the biggest one.

    1. Mrs Jones

      Good research well done.

  6. Kinza A.

    Bronze
    Tropical rainforest & Amazon rainforest
    The warm zone is closer to the equater
    25%
    Silver
    Because it is freezing cold
    The animals yell out loud
    Gold

  7. Bhavdeep B.

    Bronze
    1 . Tropical and temperate
    2 Tropical
    3.25%

    Silver
    1. Because it’s too cold there.
    2. Animals have to use loud calls to communicate.
    3. humid means damp
    It’s all wet on the floor.

    Gold

    Rainforests are super important to our life.
    take carbon dioxide and make oxygen which we need to breathe and survive. This is why they are called ‘The Lungs of The Earth.

    Platinum

    The Amazon is estimated to have 16,000 tree species and 390 billion individual trees.
    many of the animals within the Amazon are
    such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, jaguars and flesh-eating piranhas.
    Over the past 40 years, 20% of the Amazon Rainforest has already been cut down and it is estimated that if deforestation continues at this rate, there might not be much left in the next 40 years.

  8. Simeongeya W.

    Bronze
    1) The two type of rainforest are:
    – The tropical rainforest
    – The temperate rainforest
    2) The tropical rainforest is nearer the equator.
    3) 70% of natural medicine.
    Silver
    1) Because it’s too cold.
    2) They make loud calls.
    3) The author wrote damp to mean humid.
    Gold
    1) Without rainforest all animal on the planet will die for lack of oxygen.
    Platinum
    There’s a reason the Amazon was the place that inspired scientist to coin the term biodiversity.
    The region is home to 10% of all plant and animal species known on Earth. There are approximately 40,000 species of plants and more than 400 mammals, with almost 1,300 different varieties of birds and an insect population in the millions.
    Simeon

  9. Muhammed H.

    Bronze
    Tropical and temperate
    Tropical
    Vitamin D
    Silver
    1. Because how cold Antarctica is it Doesn’t have trees
    2.by using there voice
    3.because it’s very muddy
    Gold
    By planting them again and again

  10. Simeongeya W.

    Bronze
    1) The two types of rainforest are:
    – The tropical

  11. Faris B.

    Silver
    1. There are no rainforests in Antarctica because its so cold there.
    2. Animals make loud calls when they can’t see each other.
    3. The author has put the word damp in brackets because it’s another word to describe the word humid.

  12. Zakariyah T.

    Bronze
    1 . The two types of rainforest is tropical and temperate rainforest
    2. Tropical rainforest is closer to the equator and temperate rainforest is farther.
    3. 25% medicine is from tropical and temperate rainforest.
    Silver
    1. Antarctica is cold and it degrees is – 90 so only will snow .
    2. The animals yell so they can hear each other from miles away.
    3. The author put it in brackets for extra information.

  13. Alisha S.

    bronze
    1)tropical and temprate
    2)tropical is more closer to the equator
    3)25% of natural medicine have been found in rain forests
    Silver
    1)there are no rainforests in antarctica because cause its to cold and the plants there would die cause plants need sunshine and water.And in antarctica it is dry and bearly rains
    2)animals that live in the canopy have to use loud calls to communicate because the cant see eachother
    3)The author put damp in brackets because it means that it wet all year
    Gold
    my opinon is that if we didnt have rainforests we wouldntbe able to make toys or table etc

  14. Yasmin A.

    The 2 rain forest is tropical and temperat .
    The nearest forest is the amazon.
    The medicine is aloe era.
    Silver
    Antarctica doesn’t have rain forest because it is a big desert.
    There can talk to other animal.
    Because it is drark

    1. Mrs Jones

      Good try but please have another look at your answers.

  15. Faris B.

    Tropical rainforests are near to the equator.
    25 % of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest.

  16. Halimah K.

    Bronze: Tropical rainforest and temperate rainforest 2: Tropical rainforest are near to the equator.
    Silver:প There are no rainforest in Antarctica because it requires more water falls.

  17. Faris B.

    Bronze The to types of rainforest are savanna and tropical
    And the nearest are tropical and temprate

  18. Faris B.

    Bronze The to types of rainforest are savanna and tropical

  19. Rayan M.

    Bronze:
    1. There are two types of rainforests which are called tropical and temperate.
    2. The tropical rainforest is nearest to the equator.
    3. 25% of natural medicines have been found in rainforests.

    1. Mrs Jones

      Great work Rayan well done.

  20. Hishaam G.

    1. The 2 rainforest are Amazon rainforest and the tropical rainforest
    2. The closest rainforest to the equator Is tropical.
    3. The percentage of the medicine in the rainforest is 25
    Silver
    1. It does not rain in Antarctica because it’s freezing
    2.they communicate by doing loud calls
    3. The athouth described is as damp because there was dead animals on the floor

    1. Mrs Jones

      Great work well done👍

  21. Ebnezere A.

    Bronze:
    The two types of rainforest are tropical rainforeset and a temprate rainforest.
    2. Tropical rainforest are the nearest rainforest to the equator and temprate rainforest are further away from the equator.25% of medicine are from the rainforest tropical and temperate
    3. 25% of medicine are from
    Sliver:
    Antarctica is temperature -85 now so it only snow and freezing there Antarctica is dessert of coldness.The animals yell so loud that you can hear it from miles like 1 miles away.
    The author put brackets because it means that it wet all year.
    Gold
    My opinion is without the rain forest the animals will die people will die and everywhere that is living will die eventually the will be nothing so that why we need they all give us oxygen breath.
    Platinum
    The Amazon River is located in South America. It runs through Guyana, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
    The length of the Amazon River is approximately 6400 kilometres (4000 miles).
    During the wet season, the Amazon River can reach over 190 kilometres (120 miles) in width.
    There are no bridges that cross the Amazon, mostly because there is no need, the majority of the Amazon River runs through rainforests rather than roads or cities.
    The largest city along the Amazon River is Manaus. Located in Brazil it is home to over 1.7 million people.
    There are over 3000 known species of fish that live in the Amazon River, with more constantly being discovered.
    Anacondas lurk in the shallow waters of the Amazon Basin, they are one of the largest snakes in the world and occasionally attack larger animals such as goats that get to close the water.
    The Amazon River is also home to the piranha, a meat eating type of fish! Being carnivores, piranhas are known to attack in groups, preying on livestock that strays into the water and possibly appearing in one or two of your own nightmares!

    1. Mrs Jones

      Super homework Ebnezere👍Keep this up.

  22. Jari V.

    Gold:
    Read the last line carefully. What is you opinion, and why? I do not think planet Earth would be able to survive without rainforests because there would be to much carbon dioxide and this could destroy our planet.

  23. Jari V.

    Bronze:
    1, Name two types of rainforest. Temperate and tropical are two types of rainforests.
    2, Which rainforests are nearer to the equator – temperate or tropical? Tropical rainforests are closer to the equator.
    3, What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest? 25 % of natural medicine is found in the rainforest.
    Silver:
    Why are there no rainforests in Antarctica? Explain. There are no rain forests in Antarctica because it is far to cold.
    How do animals communicate when they cannot see one another? They use loud calls to communicate.
    Why has the author written the word ‘damp’ in brackets in the ‘Forest Floor’ section? They have written the word damp because the forest floor is humid, which also means damp.

  24. Yusuf S.

    I have read the text and answered the questions in my homework book.

  25. Ebnezere A.

    Bronze:
    The two types of rainforest are tropical rainforeset and a temprate rainforest.
    2. Tropical rainforest are the nearest rainforest to the equator and temprate rainforest are further away from the equator.
    3. 25% of medicine are from rainforest.

    _________________________
    Sliver: there is no rainforest in Antarctica because it is way to cold for even a single rainforest there.
    2. Animals that live in canponys have to use loud calls to communicate because they can’t see eachother.
    3. It tells you what the word in front means.
    _________________________
    Gold: we would have to rely on flowers and other plants so we would need to plant more seeds but the trees give the most oxygen most oxygen is from trees.
    _________________________
    Platinum: The Amazon is the world’s biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined.At 6.9 million square kilometers (2.72 million square miles), the Amazon Basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States and covers some 40 percent of the South American continent. The “Amazon rainforest” — which defined biogeographically includes the rainforest in the Guianas, which technically are outside the Amazon Basin — covers 7.8-8.2 million square km (3-3.2 million square mi), of which just over 80 percent is forested.The Amazon River is by far the world’s largest river by volume, carrying more than five times the volume of the Congo or twelve times that of the Mississippi. It drains an area nearly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States and has over 1,100 tributaries, 17 of which are longer than 1000 miles.The Amazon River once flowed west-ward instead of east-ward as it does today. The rise of the Andes caused it to flow into the Atlantic Ocean.The Amazon is estimated to have 16,000 tree species and 390 billion individual trees.Nearly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is found in Brazil.The Amazon is thought to have 2.5 million species of insects. More than half the species in the Amazon rainforest are thought to live in the canopy.70 percent of South America’s GDP is produced in areas that receive rainfall or water from the Amazon. The Amazon influences rainfall patterns as far away as the United States.Cattle ranching accounts for roughly 70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon.Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest was on a downward trend from 2004 to 2012, mostly due to the falling deforestation rate in Brazil. There are a variety of reasons for the decline, including macroeconomic trends, new protected areas and indigenous territories, improved law enforcement, deforestation monitoring via satellite, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector initiatives. But that trend has reversed since 2013, with deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 2021 reaching the highest level since 2008.

    1. Mrs Jones

      Super work👏🏻

  26. Ebunoluwa I.

    1.Temperate and Topical.
    2.Tropical is closer to the equator.
    3.25% of cures and medicines are mostly from rainforest.
    Silver
    1.There are no rainforest in Antarctica because its winter there and very cold there.
    2.there make loud noise to communicate.

  27. Rayan M.

    BRONZE
    Name two types of rainforest.
    1. Tropical – in the tropical, warm zone near the Equator
    2. Temperate – in the temperate zone further away from the Equator.
    Which rainforests are nearer to the equator – temperate or tropical?
    Tropical because the text says it is further away from the Equator.
    What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest?
    25% of natural medicines have been found in the rainforest.

    SILVER
    Why are there no rainforests in Antarctica? Explain.
    Because it is to cold for trees and animals to survive.
    How do animals communicate when they cannot see one another?
    Animals that live in the canopy have to use loud calls to communicate because they cannot see each other in the thick leaves and some jump from tree to tree.
    Why has the author written the word ‘damp’ in brackets in the ‘Forest Floor’ section?
    The Author has written the word ‘damp’ because humid and damp are synonyms but damp is a much easier to understand word.
    GOLD
    Read the last line carefully. What is you opinion, and why?
    There is no way we can survive because without the water cycle how will we keep hydrated.
    PLATINUM

    Produce your own information text on the Brazilian rainforest, using your own research.

    MY Amazon Rainforest fact file
    Bullets points
    • There are 2500 species of fishes
    • There are 1500 species of birds in the amazon rainforest
    • There are 1800 species of butterflies
    • There are 4 types of cats in the amazon rainforest
    • There are 200 species of mosquitos
    • There are 50,000 of higher plants.

    Fun fact – There are so many birds in the amazon rainforest that it takes up a third of the birds population in the world with the toucan being the most popular icon.

    Approximately 2700 acres of the Amazonian rainforest are burnt to ash every year
    Due to this experts estimate that we are losing about 137 species of plants animals and insect species every single day because of deforestation of the rainforest and that makes about 50000 species lost a year this also gets rid of lots of medicines for dangerous diseases.

    This climate is warm and humid with an average temperature of 79 degrees and an average yearly rainfall of 80 inches. The Temperature difference between the day and night may even be larger than the temperature between seasons.

    1. Mrs Jones

      Great work Rayan you have answers the questions fully.

  28. Jebrin Y.

    Bronze:
    The two types of rainforest are tropical rainforeset and a temprate rainforest.
    2. Tropical rainforest are the nearest rainforest to the equator and temprate rainforest are further away from the equator.
    3. 25% of medicine are from rainforest.

    _________________________
    Sliver: there is no rainforest in Antarctica because it is way to cold for even a single rainforest there.
    2. Animals that live in canponys have to use loud calls to communicate because they can’t see eachother.
    3. It tells you what the word in front means.
    _________________________
    Gold: we would have to rely on flowers and other plants so we would need to plant more seeds but the trees give the most oxygen most oxygen is from trees.
    _________________________
    Platinum: The Amazon is the world’s biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined.At 6.9 million square kilometers (2.72 million square miles), the Amazon Basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States and covers some 40 percent of the South American continent. The “Amazon rainforest” — which defined biogeographically includes the rainforest in the Guianas, which technically are outside the Amazon Basin — covers 7.8-8.2 million square km (3-3.2 million square mi), of which just over 80 percent is forested.The Amazon River is by far the world’s largest river by volume, carrying more than five times the volume of the Congo or twelve times that of the Mississippi. It drains an area nearly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States and has over 1,100 tributaries, 17 of which are longer than 1000 miles.The Amazon River once flowed west-ward instead of east-ward as it does today. The rise of the Andes caused it to flow into the Atlantic Ocean.The Amazon is estimated to have 16,000 tree species and 390 billion individual trees.Nearly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is found in Brazil.The Amazon is thought to have 2.5 million species of insects. More than half the species in the Amazon rainforest are thought to live in the canopy.70 percent of South America’s GDP is produced in areas that receive rainfall or water from the Amazon. The Amazon influences rainfall patterns as far away as the United States.Cattle ranching accounts for roughly 70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon.Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest was on a downward trend from 2004 to 2012, mostly due to the falling deforestation rate in Brazil. There are a variety of reasons for the decline, including macroeconomic trends, new protected areas and indigenous territories, improved law enforcement, deforestation monitoring via satellite, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector initiatives. But that trend has reversed since 2013, with deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 2021 reaching the highest level since 2008.

  29. Eva T.

    1.Two types of rainforests are the temperate and tropical.
    2. The tropical rainforest are near the equator
    3.25% of our medicine is found in the rainforest.

    Silver
    There are no rainforests in Antarctica because it is cold there.
    They have to use there voices.
    They have put damp in brackets because that is how the forest floor is made.

    1. Mrs Jones

      Good work Eva👍

  30. Andreea-Maya M.

    Two type of rainforest are tropical temperate
    Tropical is the closest to the equator
    25% of medicines are found in the rainforest

    1. Mrs Jones

      Well done Maya 👍

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