Exploring Australia's Geography: Maps, Size & Origins

1. Mr Daly Investigating Australia's Physical Environment Learning Objective: Identify and explore types of maps and Australia’s geographical dimensions Learning Outcome: To acknowledge the origins of Australia’s size and shape Success Criteria: To be able to communicate how Australia was formed, and is changing Activities • Website, Edmodo, Note • Class Rules • Assessment Schedule • Australia’s geographical dimensions and Worksheets

2. Mr Daly Mr Daly’s Website www.mrdaly.wordpress.com Mr Daly’s Edmodo www.edmodo.com Edmodo Code is 72ag9b Mr Daly’s Parental Note Parents Email and Signatures, please.

3. Mr Daly Class Rules and Expectations I will arrive to class on time and line up quietly I will come prepared to class I will raise my hand to speak I will listen to and respect others in class I will remain silent when Mr Daly delivers an instruction I will remain seated in class and get permission before I get up or leave If I am having trouble with anything, I will ask Mr Daly for help I will complete all class work on time, to the best of my ability

4. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape Facts Australia is the flattest continent, with an average height of only 330 metres above sea level. Australia is the driest inhabited continent with an average annual precipitation of 450 millimetres. Australia has the lowest flow from its rivers compared with other continents. Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world. Australia is the only Island Continent – and the smallest. Australia has six States and Two Territories. Our Geographic Coordinates are 27 00 S, 133 00 E.

5. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape Australia compared to Europe Australia compared to the United States of America

6. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape Australia compared to the United Kingdom Australia compared to Japan

7. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape This map shows you the two different climates that Australia has. The Tropic of Capricorn is the line which divides the two climates

8. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape Australia has three major physical regions: The Western Plateau, The Central Lowlands and The Eastern Highlands

9. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape This map shows you the temperatures which affect enrivonments around Australia

10. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape This map shows you average rainfall This map shows you average temparatures

11. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape This map shows water sources.

12. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape This map shows you water temparatures

13. Mr Daly Australia’s Size and Shape This map shows you water movement around the globe

14. Mr Daly Geographical Origins of Australia Over 200 million years ago Australia was part of a great landmass known as Pangaea. This ‘supercontinent’ split in two, making Laurasia (which later became Europe, Asia and North America) and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and South America. If you look at the shape of the present day continents of Africa and South America on a world map, you can see how they may have once fitted together. Scientific studies have shown how the Earth’s crust has followed cycles of joining and breaking up, this is called ‘continental drift’.

16. What evidence is there which supports this theory?

17. Mr Daly Geographical Origins of Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7LX5-ytOg What evidence is there which supports this theory? • Exact same animal fossils found in South America and Africa • Plant fossils found in Arctic Regions

18. What was the supercontinent called?

19. Mr Daly Geographical Origins of Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5q8hzF9VVE Questions • What was the supercontinent called?