Look at this picture and the picture
on the front page. Which animal lacks
a partner to make a couple?
Welcome Aboard
A guide to an exhibition for younger primary school children
Solution
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Red
2. Giant panda
3. Man
4. Wild horse, originally from
China and Mongolia, it was
saved from extinction by
the zoological gardens.
5. We will find a shelter for the
animals in the zoological
garden. We will establish
natural parks for the animals,
where nobody will disturb them.
6. No. Trading rare natural
products harms the animals.
7. 1C, 2D, 3B, 4A
8. 8 meters
9. Volcanoes (volcanism),
impacts by space objects
10. Palaeontologist
11. Steller’s (or Northern)
12. 1 year
13. Screwing bug
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HALLWAY
1. Which colour do we use
when we want to warn of a danger?
13. Meet the animals living under the ground and cross the name,
which Eda the gull made up.
A green
A Pink fairy armadillo
B grey
B Golden mole
C red
C Screwing bug
D Marsupial mole
2. What is the name of the animal that has become the
symbol of the endangered species?
Look at the exhibited animals and tell the gull what they
really look like. Who switched bodies with who?
3. What is the greatest threat for the animals in nature today?
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12. Read the panel to find out how long the jumbo squid lives.
ENTRANCE
A 1 year
B 10 years
C 50 years
The Flood is coming!
Connect the animals to make couples, so that they can go aboard.
Look at the animals and draw
the missing horns to the ibex.
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D or write which of the exhibited products of nature you
Draw
like, so that you can have your own collection.
10. Untangle the letter mesh to find out the name of the scientist
who dug up the bones of the extinct animals.
MY COLLECTION
Fix the broken museum objects.
11. Find out from the legend by the exhibit what the name
of the largest species of seal is.
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GROUND FLOOR
8. Look at him and say how long he was.
GALLERY
A 1 meter
B 8 meters
C 20 meters
9. Find out from the panel why the dinosaurs became extinct.
A
B
C
4. Find out more about the Przewalski’s horse
and tick the statements that are true.
It is:
A domestic horse
It comes from:
A China and Mongolia
It was saved from extinction by:
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B wild horse
B Italy and Spain
A zoological gardens
B museums
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5. How can we protect the endangered animals? Look at the show cases
and panels at the gallery and pick the pictures where the gull is right.
7. The animals or plants that are spread by people to regions where
they never existed can be harmful for the original nature.
Connect the legends with the pictures to understand
these imported species better.
A Giant hogweed
B Potato bug
C American mink
D Red-eared slider
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6. Find out on the panel whether Eda can bring home a cactus,
a turtle’s shell and an elephant’s tusk from his holiday.
A Yes. Live animals cannot be transported, the plants are not regulated
B No. Trading rare products of nature harms the animals.
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