Desert Animals
Research Task
Choose one of the following animals each two weeks. Camel
Answer as many of the questions below as possible.
1) What is the name of your animal?
2) Where in Australia is your animal usually found?
3) Is it also found elsewhere in the world?
4) What is it’s normal habitat like?
5) What are its predators?
6) Is your animal adapted to life in the desert? How?
7) What plants and animals does your animal likes to eat.
8) Is your animal extinct, endangered or living normally?
9) Provide a drawing of your animal, highlighting three of its most interesting features.
Links to research information
Alice Springs desert park - http://www.alicespringsdesertpark.com.au/kids/plants/
Mammals of arid Australia - http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/general/mammals/m_spec.htm
Australian Fauna - http://www.australianfauna.com/australiananimals.php
Camels - http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/13-categories/animals/19-camels.html
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/adaptations/camels.htm
Research Task
Choose one of the following animals each two weeks. Camel
- Bilby
- Marsupial mole
- Kowari
Answer as many of the questions below as possible.
1) What is the name of your animal?
2) Where in Australia is your animal usually found?
3) Is it also found elsewhere in the world?
4) What is it’s normal habitat like?
5) What are its predators?
6) Is your animal adapted to life in the desert? How?
7) What plants and animals does your animal likes to eat.
8) Is your animal extinct, endangered or living normally?
9) Provide a drawing of your animal, highlighting three of its most interesting features.
Links to research information
Alice Springs desert park - http://www.alicespringsdesertpark.com.au/kids/plants/
Mammals of arid Australia - http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/general/mammals/m_spec.htm
Australian Fauna - http://www.australianfauna.com/australiananimals.php
Camels - http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/13-categories/animals/19-camels.html
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/adaptations/camels.htm