Students
Students in a field of canola
Part of our lives each day our natural resources and primary industries are amazing. Don't believe it? Check out these facts…
- There are more than 600 species of trees in NSW including eucalypts, acacias and casuarinas.
- Barramundi, which are farmed in NSW, start life as males and end as females. They also live in both freshwater and saltwater.
- A standard house frame uses around four plantation grown pine trees.
- 90% of electricity generated in NSW comes from coal.
- The translation of the scientific name for Butterfish, Scatophagus, is Scat = poo, phagus = eater.
- With around 35 million, NSW has the highest number of sheep of any state, that’s more than 5 sheep for every man, woman and child in NSW.
- Healthy koalas average 150 scats (poos) a day which smell like eucalyptus oil.
- Want to know more? Search for information on topics related to primary industries; find photos or definitions from this page.
Fish-n-kids web pages
For all that is fun about fish and fishing.
Ask a geologist
Have you got a general geological question or a rock sample and you don't know what it is? Well this page gives you the opportunity to ask a Geologist.
Schools image library
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