AUSTRALIA by Ionela-Luiza Nicoară Ş.A.M. NOCRICH

Historians The first inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines, who migrated there at least years ago from Southeast Asia. There may have been between a half million to a full million Aborigines at the time of European settlement; today about live in Australia. Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish ships sighted Australia in the 17th century. The Dutch landed at the Gulf of Carpentaria in In 1616 the territory became known as New Holland. The British arrived in 1688, but it was not until Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770 that Great Britain claimed possession of the vast island, calling it New South Wales. A British penal colony was set up at Port Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and about transported English convicts were settled there.

The first colonies New South Wales (1786) Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) (1825) Western Australia(1829) South Australia (1834) Victoria (1851) Queensland (1859)

Geographers Australia's landmass of square kilometres is on the Indo-Australian Plate. Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas. The world's smallest continent and sixth largest country by total area. Australia—owing to its size and isolation—is often dubbed the “island continent” and variably considered the world's largest island.

Geographical position The continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania, is approximately equal in area to the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast, reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko (7,308 ft; 2,228 m). The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert plateau that rises into barren, rolling hills near the west coast. The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 mi (2,000 km), lies along the northeast coast. The island of Tasmania (26,178 sq mi; 67,800 sq km) is off the southeast coast. Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia.

Major cities of Australia Australia Capital is… The largest city in Australia and Oceania is… The capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia is…

Canberra Parliament house Carillion Captain Cook Jet and National Library

Sydney The Sydney Opera House Sydney Harbour Bridge Downtown from the Rocks Sydney Harbour

Perth Skyline of PerthGouvernment House Hay Street

Biologists The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over vascular and non-vascular plants, species of fungi and over lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, and below the family level has a highly endemic angiosperm flora whose diversity was shaped by the effects of continental drift and climate change since the Cretaceous. Prominent features of the Australian flora are adaptations to aridity and fire which include scleromorphy and serotiny. These adaptations are common in species from the large and well-known families Proteaceae (Banksia), Myrtaceae (Eucalyptus - gum trees), and Fabaceae (Acacia - wattle). AUSTRALIAN FLORA

ACACIA BANKSIAS EUCALYPTUS GREVILLEAS

The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative scarcity of native placental mammals. Consequently the marsupials—a group of mammals that raise their young in a pouch, including the macropods, possums and dasyuromorphs — occupy many of the ecological niches placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world. Australia is home to numerous venomous species, which include the Platypus, spiders, scorpions, octopus, jellyfish, molluscs, stonefish, and stingrays. Uniquely, Australia has more venomous than non-venomous species of snakes. AUSTRALIAN FAUNA

ECHIDNA KOALA BEAR TASMANIAN DEVIL PLATYPUS PLATYPUSCROCODILE LYRE BIRD NUMBAT CUSCUS PYGMY POSSUM PYGMY POSSUM

Surprise… If you click here you will identify cute symbol of Australia.

Kangaroo Kangaroo

Some aspects during the development of the project

Bibliography Jeremy Harmer-The Practice of English Language Teaching

Adam Vasile-7th grade Corman Vasile-7th grade Fâţan Lucia-7th grade Mihu Edifta-7th grade Piele Elena-Raluca-7th grade Ştefan Mihai-Cătălin-7th grade Ştefan Mihai-Alex-7th grade Varga Paula-7th grade Vlad Bianca-7th grade Coordinator: -teacher: Birtalan Armanda-Ramona -teacher: Nicoară Ionela-Luiza Team project

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