The rock in the southern portion of Northern Australia.
What is Ayers Rock or Uluru?
100
The main reason that Australia land was needed.
What is the need for space for a convict colony or jail system?
100
A Democratic system, similar to the United Kingdom and led by a Prime Minister.
What type of government does Australia have?
100
Agriculture, mining, tourism and manufacturing.
What are Australia's major industries or businesses?
100
This animal is a mammal, lays eggs, has webbed feet for swimming and powerful claws for digging. It eats by diving to the river bottom, sweeping the river floor, and collecting food with its mouth pouches, then surfaces.
What is a platypus?
200
The physical feature that contains a lot of different fish and corals.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
200
The group that first lived in the area of Australia.
Who are the Aborigine?
200
Advance Australia Fair.
What is the national anthem?
200
This is the main airline that serves all of Australia. Its planes have a red kangaroo on the side.
What is Qantas airlines?
200
The Kangaroo, Koala, and Wombat all belong to this family, that is they carry their young in a pouch.
What is a marsupial?
300
The ocean that borders Australia in the south.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
Australia is founded and colonized by this European country.
Who is the United Kingdom?
300
Citizens in Australia can vote and have freedom of religion and freedom of press in this type of government.
What is a democracy?
300
A business where no one else is allowed to compete and all of the profits go directly to the shareholders in the business.
What is a monopoly?
300
The budgerigar, cassowary, emu, gannet, and kookaburra.
What are exotic birds of Australia?
400
The desert that stretches from Western Australia into Southern Australia.
What is the Great Victoria Desert?
400
The name of the British explorer who founded Australia for the United Kingdom?
Who is James Cook?
400
The monarch of Australia, she also reigns over the United Kingdom. Today, she is just a figurehead, but greatly respected by the Australian people.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
400
In 1798, this particular animal arrived in Australia, this made for a great economy and began the industrialization of Australia of exporting to Great Britain.
What is the first Merino sheep, famous for its beautiful wool.
400
The fox, horse, rabbit, and pig.
What are animals NOT native to Australia.
500
The sea that borders Australia's northeastern tip.
What is Coral Sea?
500
The main form of art done by the Aboriginies in Australia.
What is Aborigine dreamtime dot or Walpiri painting?
500
These people are responsible for reporting the proceedings of the government and trials of criminals. They may be sensational or realistic. They also may publish newspapers and comment on particular events.
What is the media or news agents/reporters?
500
In 1849, thousands of Australians leave to California to search for this, even though they didn't know it was already discovered in Australia and kept hidden. The British mandated that the Australians come back by finally announcing they had it too!
What is GOLD?
500
The tiger snake, death adder, black snake, and copperhead.