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Latitude line that is at 0 Degrees
What is the equator?
100
The central line at 0 degrees from north to south.
What is the Prime Meridian
100
A graph of the average temperatures and average rainfall (precipitation) for a place over the 12 months of a year.
What is a climatic graph?
100
Australia's tallest mountain is found in the Eastern Highlands.
Where is Mt Kosciuszko ?
100
Encompasses the religious and spiritual beliefs of Aboriginal people. It is infinite—a past that continues to exist in the present and in the future.
What is the dreaming?
200
The difference between two points on a map
What is elevation?
200
The difference in height between two adjacent contour lines.
What is a contour interval?
200
Form when warm air rises. They are often associated with unstable weather conditions: cloudy skies, rain and relatively strong winds.
What are the features of low pressure systems?
200
A famous for its large red sand dunes which run north-to-south
What is the Simpson Desert
200
The theory that the earth’s continents broke apart and drifted away from an original large landmass or supercontinent called Pangaea.
What is continental drift.
300
A fall in temperature, may bring rain and storms.
What is a cold front?
300
Locating large items on a map or simply giving a general location.
What are quadrants?
300
When there are far fewer young people in a countries population than people in older age groups.
What is negative growth?
300
The largest lake and lowest point in Australia
What is Lake Eyre ?
300
Mammals that give birth to largely-undeveloped young.
What are Marsupials.
400
Lines that jin places of equal atmospheric pressure.
What are isobars?
400
Maps that use lines that are drawn i a grid on top of the map to locate places.
What are topographic maps?
400
Displays a side view of the land surface along a particular line of the map?
What is cross section?
400
Southernmost of two super-continents
What is Gondwanaland
400
The continent of Australia shares marine territorial boundaries with Papua New Guinea
What is one of Australia's nearest neighbors?
500
Provide a summary of the surface level weather conditions at any given time.
What is a weather map/synoptic chart?
500
The exaggeration is used to emphasise vertical features, which might be too small to identify relative to the horizontal scale.
What is vertical exaggeration?
500
Taken from above the ground with the camera lens pointed down on the area being photographed.
Define vertical photographs.
500
The movement of the earth’s plates by currents deep within the earth’s liquid mantle.
What is plate tectonics?
500
Formed when one plate slides down under another. Some rocks are forced down, others are forced upwards and bent into wave-like form
What are fold mountains?