1. SPONGE:
Citizens vote in Cuba and in Brazil for the leaders, but how is the vote different?

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
What are select geographical features of Australia?

3. STANDARD:
SS6G12 The student will be able to locate selected features of Australia.
Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Ayers Rock, and Great Victoria Desert.

4. Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world by area. Comprising the major land area of Australasia, it includes the mainland ("island-continent") and a number of islands, the largest of which is Tasmania.
Australia has been inhabited for about 50,000 years, originally by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Eastern Australia was claimed by the British in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on January 26, 1788.

5. AUSTRALIA
Australia's neighboring countries include Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea to the north, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. The shortest border distance is between the main lands of Papua New Guinea and Australia at about 150 kilometers.
This has led to a complicated border arrangement allowing access for traditional uses of the waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and Torres Strait Islanders.

6. AUSTRALIA
In your group are different types of Australian maps. Answer the following questions using the maps. Answer the questions in complete sentences.

7. Answer the following Map #1 Map #2
Use your legend to answer the following questions
Describe the significance of the Sea Ports in Australia.
Explain how Australia can be labeled as an Island.
Map #2
Use Map #2 to answer the following question(s)
Name 5 Physical features of Australia (Include One desert and one sea in the list.
Name the two oceans that surround Australia

8. Answer the following Map #3
Use the map to answer the following questions
Explain why the cities located on the top end of the coast of Australia experience hot and humid summers.
Explain why the cities located on the bottom end of the coast of Australia experience warm summers and cool winters.

9. Answer the following Map #4
Use the map to answer the following questions
How does the varying temperature of northern Australia differ from the temperature of southern Australia
What is the temperature in Brisbane? Perth? Darwin? Hobart? How do you know?

10. Answer the following Map #5 Map #6
Use map #5 to answer the following questions
Looking at the map, the interior part of Australia is completely white and the exterior part of Australia (around the coast) is darker. Explain the difference.
Map #6
What does this political map tell you?

13. Hot Dry Summer, Cold Winter
Warm Humid Summer
Mild Warm Summer, Cold Winter
Hot Dry Summer, Mild Winter
Hot Humid Summer
Warm Summer, Cool Winter

14. 102
91.4
80.6
69.8 59
48.2 32 26 F

15. 0.0 – 0.1
1.1 – 10
0.11 – 1

17. Great Victoria Desert

18. Great Barrier Reef
Warm Summer, Cool Winter

19. Ayers Rock

20. SUMMARY:
Give One Get One
With an elbow or face partner, describe one of the geographical features of Australia.