l. Monkeys in the Americas include the capuchins, howling monkeys, sakis, spider monkeys and squirrel monkeys. They are known for having 36 teeth and a prehensile tale. How many teeth would a family of five spider monkeys have altogether? _______
2. One howling monkey eats over three pounds of fruits and insects daily. How much does it eat in a week? _______
3. Another type of monkey in the Americas include the langurs, macaques, and proboscis monkey which have 32 teeth and a tail that does not help them locomote. If a macaque lost five teeth in a fight, how many would she have left? ___
4. The spider monkey lives in the tropical rain forest canopy over 300 feet in the air. If he climbs 50 feet in one minute, how long will it take to get to the canopy? ______
5. It rains over 2600 mm a year in a tropical rain forest. How many millimeters does it rain in three years? _________
6. There are 1316 types of plants living in a tropical rain forest in Panama. Over 450 of them are on the endangered list. How many are not endangered? ______
7. There are over 38l types of birds living in a tropical rain forest in Borneo. If 48 are parrots, how many types of birds are not parrots? ______
8. The fires burning in the Amazon rain forest are burning 250 acres a day. How many acres will have burned in one week? ________
9. Scientists have found many cures for human diseases from plants that grow in the tropical rain forest. If 24 remedies for pain killers and 16 remedies for infections and 2 remedies for burns have been found just in the tropical rain forest in the Congo, how many cures is that altogether? ________
10. Old wood is wood like mahogany and teak that takes centuries to grow. If you plant a mahogany tree in a tropical rain forest in South America this year and it takes 100 years to grow to maturity, when will it be full grown? ____
On the back of this sheet, write your own Monkey Math word problem.