History of Oceania
Mammals
Rivers
Geography of Australia
Magnets
100
Aboriginal people arranged these in rivers to create fish traps that would catch fish as water flowed through.
What are rocks?
100
This term means an animal can keep its body temperature stable, even when the environment changes.
What is "warm blooded"?
100
This force pulls water downhill, causing rivers to flow.
What is gravity?
100
Much of central Australia is covered by this dry land type.
What is desert?
100
These are the two ends of a magnet, where the magnetic force is strongest, labeled north and south.
What are poles?
200
This art form is commonly associated with Aboriginal artists and can represent maps, animals, and Dreamtime stories.
What is dot art?
200
Some mammals, like whales, have this thick layer of fat to keep them warm in cold water.
What is blubber?
200
This is a wide, curving bend in a river.
What is a meander?
200
This is the name given to the vast, remote interior regions of Australia.
What is the Outback?
200
When opposite poles of magnets come together, they do this.
What is attract?
300
Meaning "from the beginning", this term refers to the original inhabitants of Australia, with cultures dating back tens of thousands of years.
What is Aboriginal?
300
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
300
This is the place where a river begins, often in mountains or hills.
What is the source?
300
This is the world’s largest coral reef system, located off the northeast coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
300
When like poles of magnets face each other, they push apart or do this.
What is repel?
400
This land management practice used controlled burns to clear land, encourage new plant growth, and make hunting easier.
What is fire stick farming?
400
This type of mammal carries its young in a pouch, like a kangaroo.
What is a marsupial?
400
This is where a river ends and flows into a larger body of water.
What is the mouth?
400
This major mountain range runs along the eastern coast of Australia and is the continent’s most extensive highland area.
What is the Great Dividing Range?
400
This tool uses a small magnetized needle to show direction.
What is a compass?
500
This term refers to the spiritual belief system explaining the origins of the world, land, and people in Aboriginal culture.
What is Dreamtime?
500
Mammals use these organs to breathe air.
What are lungs?
500
This triangular landform is created by deposited sediment where a river meets an ocean or lake.
What is a delta?
500
This massive sandstone monolith in the Northern Territory is sacred to Indigenous Australians.
What is Uluru?
500
These three metals are naturally magnetic and strongly attracted to magnets.
What are iron, nickel, and cobalt?