Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Land
- Australia
- Continent and country, and
it isn't considered an island
because of its size
- Mountains and
Plateaus
- Australia is
mostly flat except
for the Great
Dividing Range on
the eastern coast.
- The range extends
from the Cape York
Peninsula to
Tasmania which
broke away from
Australia a long
time ago
- Most of the Rivers
begin in the Diving
Range
- The Western Plateau is
flat land in central and
western Australia and it
covers two thirds of the
continent
- It is also referred
to as the outback
- the three deserts are the
Gibson, Sandy and
Victoria
- Towards the south coast,
the Nullarbor Plain which
means ¨no trees.¨it ends
abruptly with a cliff on the
Australian BIght
- Central Lowlands
- The central lowlands
separates the
outback and the
Great Diving Range
- contains arid grasslands
and desert and stretches
across the east central
part of Australia
- The Murray and Darling are
the two rivers that supply
water for farming year
round because most of
them dry up
- The Great Artesian Basin
is underneath the low
lands but the water is too
salty to drink, so
ranchers use it for
livestock
- Great Barrier Reef
- It lies on the
northeastern coast and is
the world's largest coral
reef
- It is a world Heritage
Site named by the
United Nations, and
also a national park
- It is string of 2,300
small reefs formed
from coral and
extends 1,250 miles
- Natural Resources
- only 10 percent
of the land on
Australia is
arable, but
argiculture is still
important
- they grow wheat,
barley, fruit,
sugarcane.
Ranchers raise
cattle, sheep, and
chicken in drier
areas
- one fourth of the
world Bauxite is in
Australia, which is
the raw material for
aluminum
- Oceania
- Island Clusters
- The three main
clusters are
Melanesia,
Micronesia, and
Polynesia
- They extend from
Midway Island which
is in the north and
New Zealand in the
south.
- Island Type
- Low Islands
- atolls that surround
lagoons filled with
coral reefs formed
through submerged
volcanoes
- There is little soil and
natural resources
- Continental Islands
- Formed through seabed that
rose above the water. and
most of the continental islands
are large
- Lots of them have volcanoes
- High Islands
- Earthquakes and eruptions
still occur in these islands
because they have a
mountain or mountain
ranges within the central,
and coastal plains
- volcanic soil is good for
agriculture
- New Zealand
- North
Island
- South
Island
- Antarctica