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Describe the country and continent of Australia. What area of Australia is the most populated?

Describe the country and continent of Australia. What area of Australia is the most populated? What cities are located in the above area? Why is Tasmania the least populated province of Australia? What major city is located in the above province ?

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Describe the country and continent of Australia. What area of Australia is the most populated?

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  1. Describe the country and continent of Australia. • What area of Australia is the most populated? • What cities are located in the above area? • Why is Tasmania the least populated province of Australia? • What major city is located in the above province? • What economic activities dominate the Outback and Western Australia? • What happened in Australia in 1770? • How did the British first use Australia from 1788 – 1868? • What religion do the Aboriginal people follow? • What do the Aborigines and Native Americans have in common? • What influences did the British pass on to the Australians? • Describe the immigration of people to Australia. • What is the ozone? • How has the loss of the ozone affected Australians?

  2. Australia:The Land Down Under

  3. 6th largest country • Smallest, flattest, driest continent • Low population density (except on east coast) • Diverse flora (plants) and fauna (animals) • 80% found nowhere else • Exotic species threaten native species

  4. Tropical North: hot, tropical in north, dry further south, cyclones Outback: harsh wilderness; arid; plateaus and plains; sheep (wool) and cattle herding Queensland: Wet; Sunshine Coast; beaches; Great Barrier Reef Urban Rim: Wet; cool; fertile land; most populated area of Australia Sydney; Melbourne; Canberra Western Australia: Capital - Perth; huge; deserts; livestock raising/herding; isolated Tasmania: land bridge; mountains and forests; 200,000 people (least populated); Hobart is the capital

  5. Aborigines • 1770 • James Cook • Discovered Australia for Britain • 1788-1868 • Prison colony • 160,000 convicts sent from England • 1851 • Gold Rush • 1901 • Independence

  6. Aborigines • Land bridge 50,000 years ago • Nomadic hunters and gatherers • 250 languages • Deep respect for nature and land (Animism) • Humans have the responsibility for taking care of the earth • Few material possessions • Rich oral tradition • Killed by European diseases and weapons (similar to Native Americans)

  7. British Influences / Immigration • Flag • English language • British or Irish ancestry • ¼ Australians are immigrants • 90,000 immigrants a year • about 45,000 (½) from Africa and Asia • 10,000 British immigrants / year

  8. Under an Ozone Hole • Ozone – a gas that makes up the second layer of Earth’s atmosphere • 6 miles above the surface. • Protects the earth from Ultraviolet rays that harmful to plants and animals. • Loss of ozone is caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) • Australia has the world’s highest rate of skin cancer

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