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