Your ecosystem can be large like these or small, like a pond. My
ecosystem will be:……………………………..
Your presentation must cover these
questions:
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Where is your ecosystem found?
Why is it found there?
Is your ecosystem a biome?
What is your ecosystem like? (plants,
animals, soil, climate (if not covered in 2.)
5. What are the natural or human impacts in
your ecosystem?
6. What can be done about them?
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Keep to time limit (3 minutes)
Few words on slides
Clear images
Good choice of images
Logical order to slides
All 6 questions covered
Thorough explanation by you
High interest level from audience
Eye contact with whole audience
Good use of voice (speed, loudness, emphasis)
The tropical rainforest ecosystem
Ecosystem means:
1. Where are they?
Describing where they are.
1. There is a narrow strip along the
very north-west of South America
where it joins to Central America
2. The northern most 2/3 of Brazil
are rainforest and it extends as far
as the Andes to the west.
3. There is a narrow strip along the
south-west coast of Brazil.
World map showing the location of rainforests
Say where they are in the world.
2. Why are rainforests where they are?
Watch the video clips
and then paste in a
diagram to show
where rainforests are
where they are:
a) Convectional rainfall
b) Temperature
Write a sentence to say why the climate is hot at
the Equator
Challenge: what does this graph show?
3. Is the rainforest ecosystem a biome?
Scientists discuss some general ecosystem types.
They call them biomes.
A biome is a large area on the Earth's surface that is defined by the types of
animals and plants living there. A biome can be partially defined by the
local climate patterns.
- Tropical Rainforest
- Tropical Savanna
- Desert
- Mediterranean Woodland
- Mid-latitude Grassland
- Mid-latitude Deciduous Forest
- Tundra
- Ice Caps
Biomes may be ecosystems found on a large scale, and may have smaller
ecosystems within them.
4. What are rainforests like?
Why four layers? Use s-cool or BBC
bitesize or other sites.
Why have the plants come
up with these adaptations?
Others adaptations – find others and add photos and annotations
Amazing facts about rainforests:
Find 6 amazing or shocking facts that we all should know
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5. What are the human impacts in the
rainforest?
Create a collage to show the causes of
deforestation
Write a detailed paragraph to explain the effects of deforestation. Use starters and connectives.
6. What is being done to ‘save the rainforests’?
Asia –
Africa –
Central America –
South America –
Oceania -