HESI A2 Reading Comprehension Passages - V2 Questions with Correct Answers.

V1 Eating Food Game of Bridge Getting a Good Night's Sleep Chronic Insomnia Phobia Rainforest Safe Driving The Water Cycle Voice White Elephant The Golden Bridge Correct Answer V2 Bicycles Changing Time Glass Healthcare Homonyms Isaac Asimov Jazz Laughter Lightning Mr. Rogers Nurseries Rainforest Extras Amazon Rainforest About 6% of the earth is covered by rainforests. The largest rainforest in the world is theAmazon Basin, which stretches over 2.3 million square miles in nine different South American countries. This area is double the length of all the other remaining rainforests in the world. Brazil contains 60%of the Amazonian rainforest, since it lies at the mouth of the river Amazon. This river is the second largest in the world and contains more than one-fifth of the world's fresh water. The Amazon rainforest is a type of wet broadleaf forest. The weather there is very humid and warm as it rains quite a bit. Because of the high rainfall, the forest is very rich and green. The tree leaves are pointed and narrow so that the raindrops can easily drop off wet plants. This tropical rainforest has more living species than the entire European continent. There are over 400 types of insects living in one single rain forest tree for a total of 2.5 million species. One square kilometer of rainforest may contain over 75,000 types of trees and approximately 438,000 different kinds of plants, which comes to a total of 90,000 tons of greenery overall. The Amazon rainforest is home to 2,000 birds and mammals, with one