HK Science-Flora growing at Paparore School

Choose your tree, or plant, or fern  (Flora) that grows at Paparore School.

1. Find and record the meaning for the words Flora and Fauna.

2. Flora is relates to plants and Fauna is relates to animals 

3. Where did your flora originate from? 

          Australia

4. What is your pohutukawa  used for?  

Puhutukawa’s hard strong timber is used for ship building, and as medicine by Maori.

5. Does your plant grow anywhere else in NZ?

It can be only found  North Island near the warm    

6. Does your plant grow anywhere else in the world?

It grows in Australia.

    

7. Describe your plants features - thinly leaf, light bark,  flower’s - ½ paragraphs

         My tree is a pohutukawa. The Pohutukawa grows to 20m high with up to a 35m wide crown. The massive spreading crown; wider than tall, molds to coastal wind and slope and spreads weight over unstable ground. The canopy shelters root systems on bare rock. Seedlings grow faster than older trees, probably like any tree. 

 The bright red flowers bloom when its christmas  

What is   the botanical name of your plant

Metrosideros excelsa 

8. Insert a photo of you and your plant 

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10. 

Mad Science

  last Friday  me and my class did  some Science and my favourite  one was   doing the Eruption in a cup cause   it was rising up and I was like wowwwwwwwww THAT WAS A M  A Z ING   and the other one was  the elephant tooth paste it was cool but it didn't rise up that much   cause the bottle was really wide and the next one that we did was the  soap power and everything  was awesome and the. Last one that we did was the balloon   blow up and the balloon blow up was kinda insane  and these are the images from the Science

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