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The Cycle of Life in the Daintree Rainforest

Lesson 1 with Mrs Wood

Daintree Rainforest

The Daintree Rainforest is a region on the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. At around 1,200 square kilometres, the Daintree is a part of the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent.

ENGAGE

Use Google Earth

to explore the Daintree Rainforest.

Zoom into various spots of the rainforest such as the river or tree canopies.

Find the rainforest

What lives in

the tree canopy?

World Heritage listed

REMEMBER...

A habitat is a place where a living thing lives.

What habitats can you see?

What lives in

the tree canopy?

The tree canopy is the upper layer or habitat zone.

It is formed by mature tree crowns and includes biological organisms.

What lives in the river?

The river and its surroundings are home to some of the most primitive forms of animal and plant life in the world.

What lives

in the river?

Plants?

Animals?

There are around 3000 species of plants in the Daintree Rainforest—from trees to ferns to flowers and more.

Just like the species of plants, there are a lot of rare, extinct, and endemic species of animals in the Daintree Rainforest.

What living things call these habitats home?

Let's Investigate...

What is an ecosystem?

How is it different to a habitat?

EXPLORE

What living things would you find in a rainforest ecosystem like the Daintree?

Why do certain plants and animals live there?

Did you know

that the rainforest

is an ecosystem?

What is the Daintree Rainforest ecosystem?

Define what an ecosystem is...

Write in your own words a definition for ecosystem.

EXPLAIN

Describe...

Can you explain ?

How an ecosystem is different to a habitat?

What do you know about the rainforest ?

Discuss the each of the following questions with someone and write or draw a response to each of the questions.

EXTEND

Discuss and write

What kinds of living things would you find in the Daintree Rainforest?

Q 1

Discuss and write

Why do only certain living things exist in the Daintree Rainforest?

Q 2

Discuss and write

How do the living things exist together in the Daintree Rainforest?

Q 3

Discuss and write

What would happen to the Daintree Rainforest if one of the living things disappeared from the ecosystem?

Q 4

WHAT NEXT?

EVALUATE

Tell me one thing you would like to find out about the Daintree ecosystem?

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