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Mother Nature
100
The babies of these animals are born about the size of lima beans, and finish their development in their mothers' pouch.
What are kangaroos?
100
The slang word for taking a picture of yourself started in Australia. What word is it?
Selfie
100
The native people of Australia.
Who are the Aboriginals?
100
Someone who has been successfully charged with a crime.
What is a convict?
100
The massive coral landform near Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
200
Australia has the most of this category of animal with a total of 755.
Reptiles
200
This is a stagnant wetland in Australia.
What is a billabong?
200
This is where most people in Australia live.
What is the southern coast?
200
This means to send someone away from your country in exile.
What does it mean "to deport"?
200
A tropical rainstorm.
What is a monsoon?
300
Australia is home to _____ out of 25 venomous snakes.
21
300
This is also called a "gum" tree.
What is a eucalyptus?
300
What is the Sydney Opera House?
300
This is a whip divided into many smaller ends in order to inflict more pain.
What is a cat-o-nine-tails?
300
What is Ayers Rock?
400
This is a mammal, like a platypus, that lays eggs.
What is a monotreme?
400
A large, long tube that can be played, making a haunting, rhythmic sound.
What is a didgeridoo?
400
The Creation time of the Aboriginals.
What is the Dreamtime?
400
This is a group of convicts forced to do hard manual labor, often while linked together.
What is a chain gang?
400
The local name for the desert area in the interior of the continent.
What is the Outback?
500
When this animal poops, it come out in a cube shape.
Wombat
500
This is a wild dog, famously accused of eating someone's baby in a 1980 incident.
What is a dingo?
500
A curved weapon used by Aboriginals that is typically thrown.
What is a Boomerang?
500
A colony used for exiled criminals.
What is a penal colony?
500
This is the most common biome in Australia.
What is a desert?