Super Hard Level
This red planet is also named after a Roman god of war.
What is Mars?
The Latins settled along this river which supplied water to growing Rome.
What is the Tiber River?
Mungo Man was found near this lake system in New South Wales.
What is Lake Mungo?
Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, or hail is known as this.
What is precipitation?
What is the term that defines the basic physical and organizational structures (like roads, power, water, internet) and systems (like transport, health, education) that a country, city, or organization needs to function effectively.
What is infrastructure?
This Australian animal is the only mammal that lays eggs besides the echidna.
What is the platypus?
These long Roman structures carried water into cities.
What are aqueducts?
These giant animals roamed prehistoric Australia and included species like the diprotodon.
What is megafauna?
This term describes water that is safe to drink.
What is potable water?
Cities with parks and natural spaces score well in this liveability category.
What is environmental quality?
This sport uses the term “love” to mean zero points.
What is tennis?
This Roman arena was used for gladiator fights and public events.
What is the Colosseum?
This type of source comes directly from the time being studied, such as a spear or ancient footprint.
What is a primary source?
The movement of water from plants into the air is called this process.
What is transpiration?
What is the term that measures factors contributing to liveability that can be measured in numbers, such as climate, literacy rates or levels of crime.
What are objective factors?
A group crows is called this.
What is a murder?
What are the two main social classes in Rome?
What are the Patricians and the Plebians?
What is the name of the mega-continent that included Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea before the end of the last Ice Age?
What is Sahul?
Freshwater that is locked in the Earth's polar ice caps or glaciers is known as ________ water.
What is potential water?
What is the term for the measurement for the amount of people per unit of area or square kilometer?
What is population density?
Plumbum is the latin name for which metallic element?
What is lead?
Name the women who were selected to tend the fire of the goddess Vesta?
Who were the Vestal Virgins?
What are the three foundations that make up the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship system?
What are moiety, totems and skin names?
What are the three different names for a powerful, rotating storm system?
What are hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons?
Aboriginal peoples refer to their land, and their connection to it, as what?
What is Country?