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Rainforest Animals

If you are a member of Children’s University complete the

entire workbook to earn 2 hours.

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How To Use This Pack

Please tell us your:

First Name:_______________________________________________

And your:

Year Group:________

This pack is for pupils who have been to the Rainforest Animal Talk at Colchester

Zoo.

Work through the pack to earn 2 hours.

When you have completed the workbook please send all the pages including this

one and any additional pages to:

Colchester Zoo via email to education@colchesterzoo.org or via post to:

The Education Department, Colchester Zoo, Maldon Road, Stanway, Colchester,

ESSEX, CO3 0SL

If sending via post, please ensure you provide an email address for us to

send you the stamps for your hard work!

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Summarise the session in no more than 2 sentences.

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Write down 2 cool facts from the session.

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What Did You Discover?

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If there was anything you want to know more about, develop a question

and write the answer.

Question:

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You Choose

Imagine you are an explorer and you are trekking through the rainforest

for the first time. Think about what you will see and how it would feel to

be there.

Being as descriptive as you can, write 1 of the 2 options:

1. A poem

2. A diary entry

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In the session you looked at the tropical rainforests but there are many

types of forests.

Find 2 other types of forests and write a description for each forest.

Forest 1:

What is this type of forest called?_______________________________

Description:

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Forest 2:

What is this type of forest called?_______________________________

Description:

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Forests Around the World

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In the session you saw the different levels of the rainforest and

discovered some of the animals that live there.

Below are pictures of other animals that live in rainforests. Draw a line to

the layer of the rainforest they can be found in (can be more than one).

Where are they found?

Komodo dragon

Rhinoceros hornbill

Rhinoceros hornbill

Common marmoset

Chimpanzee

Rainbow Lorikeet

Emergent Layer

Canopy Layer

Understory Layer

Forest Floor

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True or False?

Circle either true or false for your answer.

· Orangutans cannot grip with their feet:

True or False

· Eagles can be found living in the emergent layer:

True or False

· Sun bears only eat bugs:

True or False

· Pygmy hippos can swim:

True or False

· Poison dart frogs are brightly coloured to warn others they are

poisonous:

True or False

· Anaconda’s hide under the water waiting to catch its prey:

True or False

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Rainforests are being cut down in a process called de-forestation. Why

are the rainforests being cut down and who benefits from cutting down

the rainforest?

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Rainforest Threats

Create a story board for a 30 seconds TV advert on how you in UK can

help the rainforests. Use a separate piece of A4 paper.

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Visayan spotted deer

Rusa alfredi

Green iguana

Iguana delicatissima

Victoria crown pigeon

Goura victoria

Sumatran orangutan

Pongo abelii

Animal Role Call

Using the IUCN website find out the maximum number of each of the animals

below and put these numbers into a graph on the next page.

Helpful tips: using the scientific (Latin) name will make your search easier. On the

IUCN website you will find a section on the population. This is where you will find

the number of each animal.

Sumatran rhinoceros

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis

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Green iguana Sumatran

orangutan

Javan

Rhinoceros

Victoria crown

pigeon

Visayan spotted

deer

Animal Role Call

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Create a Collage

The rainforest is home to many types of animals but many types of plants are

found in rainforest too. Create a college of some of the plants (trees, flowers,

shrubs, vines, to name a few) in the box below. The college can be made up of

pictures, drawings or a mixture of both.