Natural Resources & Location
What Oceans is Australia surrounded by?
Pacific and Indian
Hunts for meat and gathers berries and other foliage
Hunter-gatherers
The word Aborigine means what?
From the beginning.
What is Captain James Cook known for?
Claiming and mapping Australia
Central Australia is mostly _____________.
Think of the Outback
Desert
What hemispheres is Australia located?
Eastern and Southern
Travel from place to place in search of food and water
Nomad
They lived in large groups of ancestors called what?
Clans
What reasons did Europe want to colonize Australia?
- Main reason: Wanted to send prisoners to Australia and develop a prison colony
- A good place for their navy
- A great place to trade with Asia and the Americas
- Natural resources and land
The southeast and southwest corners of Australia have what type of climate?
Temperate
Geography: Australia is mostly ___________.
Think of topography.
Flat
Native people
Indigenous people
These were the weapons the Aborigines used
Spears and Boomerangs
In 1851, thousands of immigrants moved to Australia for what reason?
Gold Rush
List 3 minerals that Australia is rich in.
Iron ore, gold, silver, copper, uranium, coal
3 of Australia's Deserts
Gibson Desert
Great Victoria Desert
Great Sandy Desert
A flat, bent, wooden tool that hunters throw to stun prey.
Boomerang
The creation of the land was called what?
Dreaming
How did European colonization affect the population of the Aborigines (indigenous people)?
Violence and disease wiped out most of the population.
Who is Australia's top exporting and importing partner?
China
The northern part of Australia has a ________________ climate.
Think about the atlas colors.
Tropical
A musical wind instrument in the form of a long wooden tube.
Didgeridoo
The native people came from where?
Southeast Asia
How did European colonization affect the basic rights of the Aborigines?
- They didn't allow them to live and work where they wanted
- They moved them from their land
- They didn't have voting rights until the 1960s
- They didn't have a representative in Parliament until the 1960s
Where do most people live?
Urban areas or southeast and southwest Australia
Examples:
-Sydney
-Melbourne
- Brisbane