Australia's Physical Environments
Changing Australian Communities
Issues Australian Environments
Australia in regional and global context
Geography skills
100
Gondwanaland
What is the name of the ancient landmass that Australia was once part of.
100
23,000,000
What is the population of Australia?
100
Air quality
What is an issue affecting the Australian environment?
100
Emigration
What is the name for people who leave one country to live in another?
100
Gradient
What is another name for slope in Geography?
200
Cyclone Tracy
What was the name of the cycline that hit Darwin in 1974
200
Brewarrina
What is the name of a town in NSW studied in term 2?
200
Spatial inequality
What is a definition of the differences that exist in relation to access to resources and services between different areas of Australia?
200
Oceania
What is the geographical region that consists of lands that lie in the Pacific Ocean in the area between Asia and North and South America?
200
Local relief
What is the name for the difference in height between two points?
300
Black Saturday
What is the name of the large bushfire that hit Victoria in 2009.
300
Multiculturalism
What is Australia's current policy in regards to settling foreign born people into Australia?
300
Spatial dimension
What is one of the two main dimensions of Geography concerned with where and why an issue is occurring.
300
200 nautical miles
How far does Australia's sovereign border extend beyond the mainland?
300
Clockwise
What is the direction of low weather systems in Australia?
400
Byron Bay
What is the easternmost point of Australia
400
Census
What is name of national survey conducted every five years?
400
60,000 kilometres
What is the length of Australia's coastline?
400
25%
What is the approximate percentage of Australians who were born overseas?
400
Transect
What is a line following a route along which a survey or observations are made.
500
8
How many states and territories in Australia?
500
Globalisation
What is a factor causing change in Australian communities?
500
Geomorphic processes
What is the definition for the uplifting forces within the earth's crust?
500
AU$3 billion per year
What is the approximate amount Australia provides for overseas aid each year?
500
hectoPascals
What is the measurement for air pressure?
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