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Healthy Places Exploration

Explore how living things and non-living parts of an environment work together. Read the case file and use evidence to solve the challenges.

Case file: The stream beside the ice rink

After skating, Losa, Harrison and Manaia visit a stream and wetland beside a local ice rink. They record what they find: native flax and rushes grow along the bank; insects shelter among the plants and eat flax; small fish swim in the stream; and a pūkeko searches the wetland for food, including insects. Sunlight reaches the plants. Rainwater flows over the soil into the stream. The water is clear, and there is little litter. The rink is nearby, but it is not part of the natural food web. The investigators want to work out what keeps this place healthy and what could put it at risk.

Investigate the habitat

Use details from the case file. A healthy habitat supports living things and has suitable non-living conditions, such as water, air, soil and sunlight.

1.Sort these four examples from the case file into living and non-living: flax, sunlight, small fish, stream water. Living: ______. Non-living: ______.

2.Which is the best example of a non-living part helping a living thing in this habitat?

Sunlight helps flax grow.
A pūkeko searches for food.
Insects shelter among rushes.
Small fish swim in the stream.

3.Complete this food-chain link using the case file: flax → ______ → pūkeko. What might the insect get from the flax?

4.True or false: The ice rink is part of the stream’s natural food web because it is nearby. Explain your answer.

5.Choose two conditions described in the case file that help make this habitat healthy.

Clear water
Lots of litter
Sunlight reaching plants
Rubbish in the soil

6.Heavy rain washes fertiliser from nearby land into the stream. Predict one possible effect on the fish or other living things, and explain why.

7.Losa spots a crisp packet near the stream. Suggest one practical action the investigators could take and explain how it would help.

8.The team wants to check whether the stream stays healthy over time. Name one thing they could observe or measure regularly and say what a healthy result might look like.

9.Write a short recommendation to the ice rink visitors suggesting one way to protect the nearby stream habitat. Explain how it helps living things.

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