Geography (Year 5): Home

How deserts form and change - Desert plants - Desert animals - Adaptations to life in the desert - Desert survival strategies - Different types of Australian deserts including sandy, stony deserts, mallee, mulga salt lakes and claypans - Feral desert animals.

Life in the Rainforest describes the complex and delicately balanced life in Australia's tropical rainforests. The full color photographs were taken in the Queensland rainforests that hold one of the most spectacular regions of tropical rainforest in the world. The working of a rainforest is fully explored before issues of introduced species and rainforest destruction are presented.