What's up down under
The ozone layer is very thin over Australia.
Why Australians always wear a t-shirt to the beach. + Reasons for warning signs, of staying out of the sun
It is a precious stone, worth the same as gold.
What is an Opal
A reef outside the Australian coast
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
The first people in Australia
Who are the Aborigines?
They were criminals.
What were the occupations of most of the first Europeans who came to Australia? They were deported from Britain.
This city is called "King's Cross"
What is Sydney?
The amount of Opals found in Australia
What is most of the world's opals?
2.000 kilometres long
What is the length of The Great Barrier Reef?
The number of years since the first Aborigines came to Australia.
What is 50.000 years?
Because the US became independent in 1783.
Why did Britain start sending their prisoners to Australia?
These people were treated badly by the Australian society.
Who are the Aborigines?
The name of the city in the south of Australia, where a lot of the Opals are from
What is Coober Pedy?
An enormous string of pearls
What does the Great Barrier Reef look like from above? E.g. seen from an aeroplane.
Because the Aborigines seek to find food, such as nuts, fruit and places to hunt
Why food the Aborigines move around?
8 months by ship - who btw could carry as much as 1,500 people.
How long did it take to go to Australia from Britain in 1788?
The name of the areas where you're not allowed to swim.
(udpegede områder)
What are DESIGNATED areas?
The place where the inhabitants of Coober Pedy live.
What are underground dug caves, called dugouts?
The month where the corals are spawning.
What is December?
What are boomerangs and spears?
In 1866
When did Britain stop sending their convicts to Australia?
Undertows, sharks and jellyfish.
What are the dangers concerning swimming?
285 km to the south and 478 km to the north.
Where is the nearest petrol station to Coober Pedy?
Some of the thousands of species of fish living in the reef.
What are hawkfish, sweetlips, showy parrot fish, the big potato cod and the magnificent lionfish?
It is 2 metres long and doesn't return
What characterises a real boomerang - historically.
Because someone started finding gold in Australia
Why did people continue to go to Australia after the deportations ended?