1. AUSTRALIA

2. Cape York Peninsula – Tropical Rainforest

3. Great Dividing Range Old Mountains that divide water flows
Similar to anything in North America?

4. Mount Kosciusko – Tallest Mt in “Australian Alps”

5. Western Plateau – Contains oldest rocks on the Continent

6. Exotic Species
New types of plants or animals that are brought to an area by humans
Rabbits brought for sport, causing erosion

7. Cane Toads

8. Endemic Species – found nowhere else Marsupials - animals that have pouches for their young Australia = No hoofed animals, no cats

9. Outback Rugged low populated central desert area of Australia

10. Artesian Wells – Wells in which water flows naturally to the surface

11. Tourism – Fastest growing economic activity Even with LONG flights
Why?
Ayers Rock
Sydney Opera House

12. 3. Great Barrier Reef Largest Coral Reef in the World

13. Waters of the South Pacific

14. Narrator

15. Coral Polyps

16. Algae

17. Blue Cleaner Wrasse Fish

18. Sea Anemones

19. Clown Fish

20. Parrot Fish

21. Other Tropical Fish

22. Crown of Thorns Starfish

23. Triton Clams

24. People

25. All the Other Reef Animals

26. Human – Reef Interaction

27. Aborigines First people of Australia
Artwork depicting the first contact that was made with the Gweagal Aborigines and Captain James Cook and his crew on the shores of the Kurnell Peninsula, New South Wales

28. Aborigines and a Didgeridoo

29. Aborigines in Modern Culture

30. Prison Colony Captain Phillips inspecting convict settlers, Botany Bay
Prison Colony Captain Phillips inspecting convict settlers, Botany Bay. This penal colony was the foundation of Sydney

31. Traditions, Customs Foods
Australian Rules Football

32. Australian Slang