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ACTIVITY P ACK Puzzles, fun facts, quizzes and more! Grab some pens and pencils and come on a journey of discovery! IN CINEMAS FROM MARCH 24 WELCOME TO ONE AMAZING DAY ON EARTH! n our vast solar system, amongst the our unique planet with the sun as our countless stars and galaxies, there guide. We meet our fellow creatures Iis only one planet that, as far as we as they wake from their slumbers in know, can sustain life: our own amazing lush jungles, green plains, dry deserts planet, Earth. This extraordinary home and chilly arctic climes and go about of ours, with her vast continents and their busy day, hunting for food, taking magnificent oceans, is also home to an a nap, finding mates, and having fun or astonishing array of wild and wonderful scary adventures! Journeying into the creatures, whose day often begins in world of narwhals and penguins, sloths much the same way as ours: with the and sperm whales, hummingbirds and rising of the sun. mayflies, we will discover one thing above all: nothing is more surprising Earth: One Amazing Day takes us on and astonishing than a single day on a 24-hour journey of discovery across this planet. PANDA HUMMINGBIRD SPERM WHALE Camera operators Film crew: Countries visited & camera assistants: Estimated 100 strong in filming 38 in UK and China combined 22 en years following the global CONNOLLY, this is an unforgettable success of EARTH – THE film for children and adults- a perfect TMOVIE, BBC Earth Films brings family adventure together. you its latest cinematic adventure film EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY. To book cinema tickets now go to Narrated by Academy Award-winner www.earthoneamazingday.com or check out our facebook ROBERT REDFORD, directed by and Instagram pages. accomplished filmmakers RICHARD DALE, PETER WEBBER AND FAN For information about group LIXIN and produced by BBC EARTH bookings and family tickets Message FILM’s STEPHEN McDONOGH us on Facebook www.facebook.com/ EarthOneAmazingDay and premier nature filmmakers We will send you the relevant Amount of NEIL NIGHTINGALE and MYLES information. species filmed: 38 key species 1. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM CONTENTS WHAT’S GOING ON INSIDE THIS ONE AMAZING DAY ACTIVITY PACK? When you wake up in the morning, so do many thousands of incredible creatures all over the planet! Meet these amazing creatures as you try our quizzes, learn fun facts, and match up the animals with their habitats. INSIDE: Help find a safe way for our baby zebra to cross the river; read our Narwhal legend story & meet lots of amazing creatures from all over plant earth. FUN FACT HERE COMES THE SUN Every creature lives in a fascinating BREAKFAST TIME! country - we’ve put fun facts and locations for you to spot throughout CLEVER CREATURES! so you can match the creature to their WEIRD AND WONDERFUL habitat by the end! ALL CREATURES BIG AND SMALL! THE SUN IS SETTING! DARKNESS FALLS YOUR TURN! This Pygmy CUT OUTS three-toed Sloth lives in Panama Wordsearch See how many words you can find in the wordsearch below, all to do with the universe our planet belongs to! Sun Planet Ocean Sky Earth Stars Universe Solarsystem Moon Don’t forget to colour the sun in on every page to wake everyone up! This Harvest Mouse lives in the UK 2. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM HERE COMES THE SUN THE MAGICAL DANCE OF EARTH AND SUN IS ESSENTIAL TO LIFE ON OUR PLANET. Colour us in! The sun is close enough to us for essential life-giving energy for our creatures, plants and habitats, but far enough away that we are not scorched by its heat. It is a perfect balance to ensure life on earth continues, as it has done for millions of years. As the earth spins on its axis, and night turns to day, the sun bathes the planet in light, giving energy to our animals and plants, sending night-time adventurers scurrying into the shadows and waking the creatures from slumber. The sun evaporates water from land and sea, and this builds into clouds that will give essential rainwater for the creatures. Can you colour in a beautiful sunrise for them to wake up to? Use reds, yellows and oranges to create a really stunning dawn scene! FUN FACT Plants take the sun’s light and use a process called photosynthesis to grow! 3. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM BREAKFAST TIME! THE SUN HAS WOKEN EVERYONE UP AND THE CREATURES ARE HUNGRY! What did you have for breakfast today? Shall we find out what different creatures eat? This rare giant panda is hungry for her breakfast. She forages for bamboo, a wooden-like plant which, to you and me, wouldn’t taste of much at all! But for the panda, it’s just about the only thing she likes to eat. Luckily for her it happens to be the fastest growing plant on the planet- growing a millimeter every minute! Since she’s been asleep, her breakfast has grown around her. Can you draw lots of bamboo growing around her so she has more to eat and can feed her cub? FUN FACT Pandas eat for up to 14 hours a day! The Panda lives in China Here’s baby zebra. She is only 10 days old and she’s a brave little thing. She could walk just one hour after she was born! Today she would like her breakfast. But she must cross a raging river to get to the lush green grass in her home in the African plains. This Zebra Can you help her cross the river, past the hippos and crocodiles, lives in Kenya and reach the other side safely? FUN FACT A group of Zebra’s is called a DAZZLE. START 4. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM CLEVER CREATURES! NOW THEY’RE AWAKE AND FED, THE CREATURES CAN SHOW OFF SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING TALENTS THAT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED. This is a Serval. She lives in the African Savannah, Colour us in! where the grass grows so high she can’t see over the top of it. She has learnt to jump three metres into the air to pounce on her prey! The Serval lives in Africa This little Hummingbird beats her wings over 80 times a second! How fast can you flap your arms? Poking her long beak into the delicious nectar, she will eat over a thousand meals a day to keep up her energy! That’s a lot more than us isn’t it? The Hummingbird lives in Ecuador The sperm whale has a very unusual talent. They are amongst the loudest creatures on the planet, they make a clicking sound louder than a jet engine! The Sperm Whale lives in the Ocean This bear needs to shed his winter coat now that summer has arrived in the mountains. He is going to scratch his back against the tree to help him lose that thick fur! The Brown Bear lives in North America Can you jump like a serval, flap your arms like a hummingbird, clap your hands louder than a sperm whale and wiggle against the wall like a bear? 5. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM WEIRDWEIRD ANDAND WONDERFUL SOMETIMES THE SUN’S RAYS CAN HELP IN OTHER WAYS - EVEN THE CREATURES UNDERWATER. THIS STRANGE CREATURE IS A NARWHAL. AS THE SUN MELTS THE ICE, HUGE CRACKS FORM CHANNELS, WHICH HELP THE NARWHALS TO GET ACROSS THE HUGE ICE SHELF. Colour me in! Narwhals are part of an unusual family of Monodontidae whales. They are known as Unicorns of the Sea because of the nine-foot long twisted horn jutting from their heads. This is in fact a tooth, or tusk. No-one knows why the Narwhal has a tusk; no scientists have found a reason for its existence, and these gentle creatures certainly don’t use it to hunt. The beautiful Narwhal and its horn are one of the great unsolved mysteries of the marine world. Can you help the Narwhals to find their way through the melting ice? 6. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM WEIRDDID YOU KNOW? AND WONDERFULIT’S STORY TIME! The Inuits enjoy retelling a legend about this mysterious glimpsed the huge dark shape of a whale. Arctic sea creature that is their neighbour in the ice- gripped areas of the far north of the planet. She decided to hunt the whale. But it was far larger and far stronger than she was. The legend of the Narwhal. As a deadly tussle ensued, the hunter wished she had In Inuit legend, the first Narwhal was a brave female chosen an easier foe! She fought for her life in the icy hunter with a long braid. seas, but the great whale would not surrender. She kept her people fed throughout their long freezing The brave hunter never returned to her people, but it winters. was said that her braided hair became the twisted tusk of the Narwhal. One day, whilst out hunting in the icy ocean, she The Narwhal lives in the Arctic ocean FUN FACT The species name, Monodon monoceros means “one Colour me in! toothed unicorn” 7. WWW.EARTHONEAMAZINGDAY.COM ALLALL CREATURES CREATURES BIGBIG ANDAND SMALL! SMALL FOR SOME CREATURES THE END OF THE DAY IS A LITTLE MORE SERIOUS THAN OTHERS. This is a mayfly. It has just a short journey on earth; less than a day, to be exact! Mayflies live as nymphs underwater for up to three years, but only emerge from the water on one day; a day in which they have a vital job to do, and in just a few short hours.