Rainforest Animals
Name:
A habitat is a place where animals and plants live. Using this sheet you are going to find out about different
animals that live in a rainforest habitat. Explore the Worlds Alive gallery to help you find the answers.
Go and find the alligator.
Where in the rainforest would
this animal live?
Can you find the overhang looking out into the Winter Gardens?
This is similar y
to what a rainforest may lookp
like. Draw a picture of
what it looks like in the space below.
ks like in the space below.
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What features or adaptations
does the alligator have to make
it an excellent predator?
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Draw one of the alligator’s
adaptations in this box.
All these creatures live in the rainforest, but do you guess in which
rainforest layer?
Can you find the live
tarantula?
They can give some people the
creeps because of their large,
hairy bodies and legs.
Tarantulas are carnivores.
What does this mean?
(tick one box)
The eat meat
They eat vegetation
They eat meat and
vegetation
Giant millipede
Emergent layer
Parrot
Chimpanzee
Piranha
Canopy
Butterfly
Tarantula
Toucan
Understory
Tree frog
Leaf cutter ant
Anteater
Forest floor
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Rainforest Animals
Find the interactive called ‘Funny Bones’.
Can you guess which rainforest
animal number 4 belongs too?
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Draw a picture of your favourite rainforest animal
in the Worlds Alive Gallery and answer the questions below:
How many legs does it have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
What is its skin covered with? (circle the answer)
feathers
scales
fur
shell
spines
Where do you think it lives? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
What do you think it eats? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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