澳大利亚的动植物英文版.pptVIP

The typical plant Eucalyptus桉树 Eucalyptus leaves is a special koala’s food. Eucalyptus is evergreen trees, Canopy shapes have spire, chandelier and hanging chandelier, etc. Leaves simple, entire, leathery, sometimes by a thin layer of wax. Eucalyptus is very useful. It can be used for a variety of fields. For example: 1)Garden. Used for afforesting 2)Wood.it is high quality wood 3)Oil refining. Use its leaves extract eucalyptus oil , 4)Medicine. Product oil eucalyptus, for medical 5)Food.its root can eat and can also be water. National flower Golden wattle（合金欢）Australian wattle belongs to leguminous（豆科） trees or shrubs（灌木）, pinnate, design and color is golden yellow, flower small, filaments longer, many flowers tightly together, like golden pompon. . wombat(毛鼻袋熊) A squat ,round ,bear-like, burrowing marsupial, about one meter in length with short legs small ears and a thick, coarse fur of brown or grey. Platypus Often described as the world’s most unusual animal because it is a small, web-footed, egg-laying mammal with a bill like a duck and can stay under water for as long as 14 minutes. Koala (考拉) The koala is another marsupial but one which looks like a small , woolly, grey and bear. It lives mainly in the branches of trees, especially the eucalyptus whose leaves comprise the koala’s main diet. * 袋鼠 kangaroo Kangaroo is Australia‘s national animal, but it is not rare, according to incomplete statistics, the existing Australian kangaroos have more than 20 million, even more than the population of Australians. Kangaroos are marsupials(有袋类） and mammals, 25 million years ago, marsupials almost disappeared from the earth, only kangaroos survive in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Kangaroos look like mice. Mother kangaroos have bags which can feed wallabies. Although kangaroos’ forelegs are short, but they have strong hind legs. Kangaroos can jump up to 60 kilometers per hour . Like the ostrich(鸵鸟）, emus are about 1.5 meters in height.Their mouths are shor