What makes a cloud forest special?

It is often wrapped in low clouds

What covers many tree branches?

Epiphytes like mosses, orchids and bromeliads

What is the Children's Eternal Rainforest?

A reserve funded by schoolchildren worldwide

Monteverde Cloud Forest Quiz: Quetzals and Hanging Bridges

This Monteverde cloud forest quiz walks the misty trails of Costa Rica's mountain forest. Play 10 interactive questions on what a cloud forest is, Quaker settlers from 1951, the 1972 reserve, epiphytes covering trees, the resplendent quetzal, the lost golden toad, the Continental Divide, hanging bridges, the Children's Eternal Rainforest and local cheese.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
Which country is Monteverde in?
Forest
What makes a cloud forest special?
Settlers
Which group settled Monteverde in 1951?
Reserve
When was the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve founded?
Plants
What covers many tree branches?
Bird
Which colorful bird with long tail feathers lives there?
Toad
Which bright orange toad vanished from Monteverde?
Divide
Which geographic line crosses the reserve?
Bridges
How do visitors walk through the canopy?
Children
What is the Children's Eternal Rainforest?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which country is Monteverde in?
Answer: Costa Rica
It lies in the Tilarán Mountains.
Q2: What makes a cloud forest special?
Answer: It is often wrapped in low clouds
Mist provides moisture.
Q3: Which group settled Monteverde in 1951?
Answer: Quakers from the United States
They started dairy farms.
Q4: When was the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve founded?
Answer: 1972
It protects the watershed and wildlife.
Q5: What covers many tree branches?
Answer: Epiphytes like mosses, orchids and bromeliads
They grow on trees without harming them.
Q6: Which colorful bird with long tail feathers lives there?
Answer: Resplendent quetzal
It is a prize for birdwatchers.
Q7: Which bright orange toad vanished from Monteverde?
Answer: The golden toad
It was last seen in 1989.
Q8: Which geographic line crosses the reserve?
Answer: The Continental Divide
Waters flow to two oceans.
Q9: How do visitors walk through the canopy?
Answer: On hanging bridges
They sway above the treetops.
Q10: What is the Children's Eternal Rainforest?
Answer: A reserve funded by schoolchildren worldwide
It began with a Swedish school's idea.

Mist, Quetzals and a Vanished Golden Toad

Monteverde lies in Costa Rica's Tilarán Mountains, where moist winds rise and form low clouds that wrap the forest. This cloud forest stays damp all year, and its trees are covered in epiphytes such as mosses, orchids and bromeliads.

In 1951 a group of Quakers from the United States settled there, starting dairy farms and a cheese factory and protecting part of the forest to save their water supply. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve was founded in 1972, and the Continental Divide runs through it.

Birdwatchers come to see the resplendent quetzal with its long green tail feathers. The golden toad, a bright orange species found only there, was last seen in 1989 and is now considered extinct. Visitors walk hanging bridges through the canopy, and the Children's Eternal Rainforest was funded by schoolchildren around the world.

What This Quiz Teaches

Nature fans will enjoy these questions.

What a cloud forest is
Who settled the area
Which animals live there
What was lost
How the forest is protected

Did You Know?

Night walks reveal tarantulas and sleeping birds.
Ziplines cross the forest canopy.
Hummingbird gardens attract many species.
Roads to Monteverde were long unpaved.
Santa Elena reserve lies nearby.