MDB - Why it matters
This river system drains about 14% of Australia's land area?
What is the Murray Darling Basin?
Reduced river flow makes this water quality problem worse.
What is salinity?
This line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A naturally occurring event that can cause damage.
What is a hazard?
The capital of Germany.
What is Berlin?
The basin produces around 1/3 of Australia's...
What is food supply / agriculture?
Slow‑moving, warm water creates ideal conditions for this hazard.
What are algal blooms?
A map that shows rivers, mountains and elevation?
What is a physical map?
The likelihood of harm occurring due to a hazard.
What is risk?
the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
Over 2.3 million people rely on the Basin for this essential resource.
What is drinking water?
This invasive fish thrives in degraded MDB waterways.
What is carp?
The scale of a map tells you this.
What is distance?
The idea that a weakness makes damage worse.
What is vulnerability?
This country has the largest population globally.
What is China? Or India...
These communities have depended on the Basin’s rivers for over 40,000 years.
What are Aboriginal / Indigenous or First Nations communities?
High salinity, algal blooms, and fish deaths can lead to this long‑term outcome.
What is long term ecosystem degradation?
Grid references use letters and numbers to help locate this.
What is location/place?
When people or environments are located in harm’s way.
What is exposure?
The process where people move from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanisation?
The Basin includes 16 of these internationally protected ecosystems.
What are wetlands?
Climate change increases risk by making droughts more frequent and this condition worse.
What is heat / evaporation?
The Murray River eventually drains into this ocean.
What is the Southern Ocean. Would also accept Indian ocean.
When one environmental problem creates another.
What is a chain reaction / flow on effect?
The name given to cities with more than 10 million people.
What are megacities?