NSWTR 2024 HR - Flipbook - Page 10
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
SPECIES DATA TABLE 1 – NUMBER OF SPECIMENS AND NUMBER OF SPECIES
COLUMN 1 – PLANTS
COLUMN 2 – INSECTS
COLUMN 3 – ANIMALS
COLUMN 4
OTHER/UNIDENTIFIED
e.g. eucalyptus trees x2
e.g. ants x55
e.g. possum poo = possum x1
e.g. spider x1 or mushroom
x4
Total:
Total:
Total:
Total:
Number of different plant
species (types):
Number of different insect
species (types):
Number of different animal
species (types):
Number of different ‘other’
species (types):
SPECIES DATA TABLE 2 – GRAND TOTAL OF SPECIMENS AND GRAND TOTAL OF NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT SPECIES (TYPES)
Grand total of all specimens counted [add the number of specimens in columns 1 to 4]
Grand total of different species (types) [add the number of different species in columns 1 to 4]
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. How many different species did each group
of students find? Did every group find
similar number of different species?
2. Was this more or fewer species than you
expected to find? Justify your answer.
3. Are there other areas nearby (apart from
where you looked) where you think you may
have been able to find more or different
species? Why do you think other areas may
have more or different species?
SPECIES SURVIVAL – MORE THAN JUST SUSTAINABILITY
4. Why do you think some species can survive
in one place (habitat), but not in another?
5. What sorts of things make an animal or
plant suited to the environment it lives in?
6. What might happen to that plant or animal
if the environment it lives in changes? What
might cause their environment to change?
8. What influence might humans have in
increasing or decreasing the number of
different species?
USEFUL LINKS
ATLAS OF LIVING
AUSTRALIA
PLANTNET APP - APP
STORE OR GOOGLE PLAY
INATURALIST APP - APP
STORE OR GOOGLE PLAY
CSIRO INSECT ID
STATE AND TERRITORY
FIELD GUIDE APPS
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