Animals of Australia Puzzle: Geography Educational Game
Animals of Australia Puzzle is a free online knowledge level game to find 15 strange and wonderful animals on the map of the Australian continent. This drag-and-drop interactive geography exercise is perfect to explore and study the isolated biodiversity of Australia directly in your web browser. A fun educational "Minute to win it" fauna game, suitable for online lessons, interactive classes, and exciting homework assignments regarding the zoogeographic regions of Oceania.
Australia is famous for its unique and extraordinary wildlife, due to its millions of years of geographic isolation. Discover where the marsupials and monotremes fit into their natural ecosystem!
How to play Animals of Australia Puzzle
There are multiple movable pieces of animals situated on the left side of the screen. Drag and drop them in the correct place on the map of Australia to the right. Be careful, as a few of the animals do not belong to the Australian continent and are placed there to trick you! Complete the puzzle to test your knowledge about the endemic fauna of Oceania.
Knowledge Achievements:
Place 10 Australian animals correctly and get +1 Knowledge Level on Planeta 42.
Class Subject: Australian Fauna and Biodiversity
This fun learning game may answer some of the following questions:
What animals live in Australia? Which are the unique animals of the Australian continent? What are marsupials? Where do Kangaroos live?
The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 24% of fish and insects, and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia. This high level of endemism can be attributed to the continent's long geographic isolation, tectonic stability, and the effects of a unique pattern of climate change on the soil and flora over geological time. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative scarcity of native placental mammals. Consequently, the marsupials—a group of mammals that raise their young in a pouch, including the macropods, possums, and dasyuromorphs—occupy many of the ecological niches placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world. Australia is also home to two of the five known extant species of monotremes and has numerous venomous species.
Some of the Included Endemic Animals:
- Kangaroo
- Koala
- Emu
- Platypus
- Echidna
- Wombat
- Tasmanian Devil
- Dingo
- Quokka
- Cassowary
- Sugar Glider
- Kookaburra
- Saltwater Crocodile
- Frilled-neck Lizard
- Thorny Devil
