1. Where is Australia? Landforms Australia’s Climate Australia’s People
Eleanor M. Savko
Where is
Australia?
Landforms
Australia’s
Climate
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2. Australia is part of the region of the world called ________.

3. What is Oceania?

4. Australia is the smallest _______ in the world.

5. What is continent?

6. Australia lies in the ________ hemisphere.

7. What is southern?

8. Like Canada, Australia was once part of the super continent _______.

9. What is Pangaea?

10. About _______ years ago, Australia began to separate from Antarctica.

11. What is 100 million years?

12. Unlike Canada’s fold mountain, Australia’s fold mountain formed very _____ in the country’s geological history.

13. What is very early?

14. Australia has landforms similar or different to Canada’s?

15. Similar

16. Ayers Rock is located in which region?

17. What is the Western Craton Region?

18. This region is made up of ancient fold mountains that have experienced faulting and erosion.

19. What is the Eastern Upland Region?

20. This landform, located in the Great Artesian Basin Region, is the lowest point in Australia.

21. What is Lake Eyre?

22. Australia is further or closer to the equator than Canada?

23. What is closer?

24. Australia experiences its summer during which months?

25. What is December and February?

26. Northern Australia is affected by a seasonal wind called a ______?

27. What is a monsoon?

28. Australia’s climate includes which zone that Canada does not experience?

29. What is Zone A – a Tropical climate?

30. Australia’s winter season takes place between which months?

31. What is June to
August?

32. True or False?
European settlers were motivated by ethnocentrism and did not value the cultures of the Indigenous Australians?

33. True

34. Before the arrival of Europeans, the largest populations of Australia’s Indigenous peoples lived in the _____ regions on the country’s coasts.

35. What is temperate regions?

36. Australia was claimed by ______ in 1770.

37. What is the British?

38. As in Canada, immigrants also arrived in Australia because of the opportunities in _________ and __________?

39. What is agriculture and mining?

40. Convicted criminals continued to be shipped from England to Australia until _____.

41. What is 1868?

42. Australia is the ______ continent on Earth.

43. What is driest?

44. In Australia, which animal outnumbers the humans?

45. What is sheep?

46. Water to support livestock in areas of semi-desert comes from underground _______.

47. What is aquifers?

48. Aquifers are found in the mountains of which region?

49. What is Eastern Upland Region?

50. Australia produces _______ of the world’s wool.

51. What is a quarter of the world’s wool?