Australia 1
Australia's type of government
What is a parliamentary democracy?
Name three Australian territories.
Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania
This country has MOST influenced Australia's history
What is Great Britain?
This prohibits trade between countries.
What is an embargo?
A person borrowing money from a finance company to buy a new car is an example of this.
What is credit?
When the British first arrived in Australia, they set up a colony with mostly who?
Who are convicts?
What is the name of an era where European settlers took Indigenous children and forced them to assimilate into white culture?
What is the Stolen Generation?
What is the Great Dividing Range?
Who is Australia's main trading partner?
Asian nations
By doing this, a consumer can protect themselves when signing up for a credit card.
What is reading the fine print or terms and conditions?
This is the reason why Australia now has a low population density of Aborigines.
What is disease brought over by the British settlers?
Name two of the Indigenous groups found in Australia.
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander peoples
This position is known as the head of government of Australia.
What is the Prime Minister?
Name three main Australian industries/resources.
Wheat, coal, tourism, livestock, shipping, fishing
A person paying interest on a mortgage is an example of this.
What is debt?
In Australia, this activity is a duty required of all citizens.
What is voting in the Federal elections?
This physical feature is considered a sacred place to the Aborigines.
What is Ayers Rock or Uluru?
This Australian physical feature is known as the world's largest living organism.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
A tax that raises prices on imports.
What is a tariff?
A new video game is coming out in a month and you would like to have enough money to purchase it. This is a good time to do this.
What is put money into savings at a bank?
The majority of Australia’s population tends to be found in this part of the country.
What is Southeastern Australia?
This is the reason why the Europeans were able to drive Australia's Aborigines off the best land and into the dry interior.
What is better military technology and equipment?
This physical feature of Australia receives little rain and experiences extreme temperatures.
What is the Great Victoria Desert?
This sets a limit on imports.
What is quota?
Ken wants to purchase a new smartphone and knows it will cost him about $300. How much will he have to save a month if he wants to purchase the phone in five months?
What is 60 dollars?