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Question | Answer |
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Australia has a population of about ... million | 21 |
Australia's highest mountain is Mt. ... | Kosciusko |
The longest river in Australia is the ... river | Murray Darling |
Australia has ... states | Six |
There are ... territories in Australia | Two |
Australia is the ... continent in the world | Smallest |
Australia covers an area of ... | 7,686,848 km squared |
Australia is the ... largest country in the world | 6th |
Australia is the ... most populous country in the world | 48th |
Australia has low population because ... | Most of the area is not suitable for living in |
...% of Australia is located in the tropical zone | 40% |
...% of Australia is located in the temperate zone | 60% |
East to west = ... km | 4000km |
North to south = ... km | 3680 |
Dominating high pressure cells bring ... | Stable air and little rainfall |
Australia is an old land with mountain ranges being eroded ... | Over millions of years |
Climate varies greatly because of the ... | Large area |
There are ... time zones | Three (Eastern, Central and Western) |
Most of the population lives along ... | The fertile coastal areas, mainly the east coast |
Australia is located in the southern and ... hemispheres | Eastern |
Northernmost point = ... | Cape York, Queensland |
Most westerly point = ... | Steep Point, Western Australia |
Most southerly point = ... | South-east Cape, Tasmania |
Most easterly point = ... | Cape Byron, New South Wales |
Aboriginies arrived from PNG and Indonesia ... years ago | 40-50000 |
Aboriginies arrived to Australia by a ... | Land Bridge (PNG). Canoes (Indonesia). |
Land bridge disappeared ... years ago at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age | 10000 |
Creation explained in dreaming which is the aboriginal explanation of ... | How various landforms were created by their spirit ancestors |
Energies of ancestral bodies remain ... | Embodied in the earth |
Over 200 million years ago, Australia was part of a great landmass ... | Known as Pangaea |
Pangaea split into ... and ... | Laurasia (Europe, Asia, North America) and Gondwana Land (Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and South America) |
Continental Drift - Theory that explains ... | How landmasses broke up to form continents |
Earths crust is ... | Not stable, divided into plates known as tectonic plates |
Tectonic plates are ... | Continually moving against each other, with dramatic effects such as earthquakes and volcanoes. |
Three land divisions - ... | Western Plateau, Eastern Highlands and Central Lowlands |
Australia is the flattest ... | Continent with an elevation of 300m |
Weathering - The initial breaking down of ... | Rocks due to exposure to elements of weather such as rain and sunshine |
Erosion - The removal of weathered ... | Material from a site by either wind, waves, running water or ice |
Mass movement - The downslope movement of ... | Weathered material under the force of gravity |
Flat country because ... | Mountains formed 500 million years ago and have been subject to erosion, weathering and mass movement |
80% of continent receive less than ... | 600mm p.a. |
Monsoon - | 1500mm p.a. Hot/wet summers and Hot/dry winters |
Tropical wet/dry - | 500-1250mm p.a. Hot/Wet summers and Hot/Dry winters |
Tropical Hot/wet - | Hot all year with rainfall occuring throughout the year |
Humid Sub-Tropical | Along the coastal areas of southern queensland to woolongong |
Desert - | Less than 250mm - Unpredictable rainfall which often occurs in downpours |
Temperate Maritime - | Hot summers with warm to cool winters and an adequate amount of rainfall |
Sub Alpine - | Restricted to the area around the snowy mountains experiencing sub-zero temperatures. |
Australia's natural resources has powered ... | Its economic growth and development |
Non-renewable resources take millions ... | Of years to form |
Renewable resources are produced within a ... | Human lifetime but if exploited can become non-renewable |
Australian soils are very ... | Fragile |
Two thirds of Australia classed as ... | Desert or Semi-Desert |
Isobars are lines that join places of ... | Equal atmospheric pressure. Measured in hectopascals |
Rain - Areas that have experienced |