Citizenship Responsibilities and Natural Resources
This is a requirement of all Australians aged 18+
What is voting
Australia is located in these 2 hemispheres
What are the southern and eastern hemispheres?
What type of Democracy does Australia have?
What is a parliamentary democracy?
This is the word for someone who starts their own business
What is entrepreneur
These were the first people to arrive in Australia
Who are the Aboriginal People
This happens if an Australian citizen aged 18+ doesn't vote in an election
What is they receive a fine?
Australia is surrounded by these two oceans
What are the Indian and Pacific oceans
This is the main way Australian citizens participate in their parliamentary democracy
What is by voting in federal elections?
What factor of production are factories, machines, farm equipment, an oven, a building, tools
What are capital goods
Due to the Europeans coming to Australia, what happened to the Aboriginal population
The population decreased drastically to 3%
Australia is known for being one of the world's largest exporters of this natural resource
What is Iron ore?
This continent lies directly northwest of Australia
What is Asia?
This person holds the highest position in the Australian Government
Who is the prime minister?
Education, learning skills and gaining experience is an example of this economic term
What is Human Capital
Why did Great Britain have to send their prisoners to Australia?
What is they lost the war with America and had to find somewhere else to send their prisoners
This natural resource from Australia is used to heat homes across both Australia and Asia
What is natural gas?
This is the main reason why population is sparse in the Great Victoria Desert / Outback
What is it is too hot (arid) and dry?
This is the minimum age for voting in Australian federal elections?
What is 18 years old?
This is the literacy rate in Australia (except for the Aboriginal people)
What is 99%
How did interaction with Europeans affect the literacy rate and school attendance of the Aboriginal people?
The literacy rate and school attendance for Aboriginal people are lower than the literacy rate and school attendance of European Australians.
Australian citizens aged 18+ are required to vote every ____ years
What is 3? (every 3 years)
This region of Australia has the highest population density
What are the coastal areas, especially the eastern coast.
Who is the head of state in Australia?
What is the British monarch?
This is the result of high literacy rate and standard of living in Australia
What are better job opportunities and higher wages? (Higher GDP per capita)
What caused the Aboriginal population to drastically decrease after encountering the British?
They died from small pox and war. (Had no immunity to small pox)