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Q1. What is a Tropical Rainforest? Click here to view a page with tips on how to complete the activities Question 1 Activity 1.5: In The Rainforest Go to your nearest patch of bushland. Maybe there’s some at the end of your street, or maybe you’ll need to convince your folks to take you there on the weekend. Your goal while you are there is to figure out if the patch of bush you are in is actually TROPICAL RAINFOREST? Click here to open the worksheet for this activity
What do your parents or grandparents know about the rainforest? Many of them have been living around rainforest for their whole lives but they might still be a little clueless about how exactly a rainforest works. Your goal is to find out how much they actually know about the rainforest?
Ask them to complete the following quiz:
Tropical rainforests are one of three major types of rainforest found in Australia. In fact all three types of rainforest found in Australia have all been listed as World Heritage Areas. They are: Tropical Rainforest, Subtropical Rainforest and Temperate Rainforest. The following areas have been listed as World Heritage sites because
of the importance of their rainforests: Look up each World Heritage Area on the Australian Government’s
environment
website and fill in this table:
Tropical rainforests occur in many parts of the world. As you know, they can occur between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. Manu National Park in South America was World Heritage listed in 1987, one year before the Wet Tropics. It’s interesting to compare tropical rainforest World Heritage sites. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre website will give you information on both Manu and the Wet Tropics. Using the web sites, complete the following table below:
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