NATURAL OR BUILT
Classifying Parts of the Environment
Classify the features you seen at Minnamurra Rainforest
into the following categories.
HUMAN / BUILT, PLANTS and ANIMALS
What are the Human / Built parts of the
Minnamurra Environment?
What Plants are found in the
Minnamurra Environment?
What Animals are found in the
Minnamurra Environment?
Living and non living things work together in many different ways
to grow and change. If the living and non living things did not
grow and change the cycles and recycling of matter would not
happen, and disruptions to natural environments could occur and
lead to the disappearance of some living and non living things.
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Plants and animals interact or live together in many different
natural environments. An example of one type of interaction is a
basic food chain as shown below.
Animals and plants depend on each other to survive. Those animals that eat plants
are called
C
H
and those that eat other animals are
.
All living things need energy to survive. Most plants get this energy from the sun.
They also use water, nutrients or food from the soil and carbon dioxide, that animals
breathe out to produce their own food.
Plants are also called
P
.
A food chain is a series of plants and animals where each plant or animal feeds on the
one listed before.
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Create your own food chain for Minnamurra using a producer, herbivore and carnivore
The features listed below can be found in a rainforest. Write each feature on
the drawing, closest to where you are most likely to see that feature in the
rainforest.
Nutrients
Snakes
Lyrebirds
Mosses
Lianas
Possums
Ferns
Emergents
Flying Fox
Lizards
Fungi
Lichens
Leaf litter
Springtails
Shrubs
Leaves
Insects
Worms
Trees
Spiders
Birds
Epiphytes
How Animals and Insects Interact With The
Environment
Where are most of the animals and insects found? Animals are found in all parts of
the rainforest.
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list animals that may be found in each of the areas listed below.
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Why do you think the animals or insects live there?
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What benefits do they provide for the environment?
Name of animals living in
this
environment
Why?
Benefits
LEAF LITTER
AND SOIL
ROCKS AND
CLIFFS
TREES
If you were a rainforest animal, where would you choose to live? Explain why you have chosen this
place and what you would need to survive there?
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Species
Symbol
H
Species
(example)
Echidna
Not Sure
Distance
from
Boardwalk
Dry, Stub 5 mtrs to 15
Tropical &
mtrs
Warm Temperate
Male or Fe- Rainforest
male
Type
4
Total
Number
Sighted
(2)
H
(2)
H
Working together as a class using your excursion Fauna Record Sheet. Collect the class’s data
and complete the Minnamurra Rainforest Map clearly showing what species were sighted and where. After
recording all the data send or fax this sheet to Minnamurra Rainforest so the information can be recorded
on the NPWS computerised database.
Name Of School: ____________________________________________ Date Of Visit: __________________
ATLAS OF MINNAMURRA RAINFOREST WILDLIFE – FAUNA RECORD SHEET
POST EXCURSION ACTIVITY SUGGESTIONS
Create graphs from the tallies made to discover comparisons between plants and
animals that exist in the different locations at Minnamurra.
Use the words listed at the different locations to create poems.
Debate the concepts of rainforest conservation.
RAINFOREST TRIVIA.
¾ Scientists have identified over 2,000 tropical plants as having anti-cancer properties.
However, scientists have only tested 1 in 10 tropical forest plants for these properties
and only intensively screened 1 in 100.
¾ Did you know that it takes from 70 to 300 years for a tree to form a tree hollow.
¾ 20% of our native mammals need logs to nest in.
¾ Some animals are endangered by the removal of rocks from the bush.
¾ Almost 90% of Madagascar’s forests have been destroyed.
¾ Tropical Rainforests contain 70% of the world’s vascular plants, 30% of all bird species
and 90% of all invertebrates.