Friday, February 25, 2011

1. The Western Plateau, The Central Lowlands, The Eastern Highlands.
2. The Australian Alps are situated from the Brindabella Range north of Canberra to the Baw Baw Range east of Melbourne.
3. The Australian Alps are rounded in shape because of millions of years of erosion and weathering.
4. Uluru is located 335 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
5. Uluru is a massive rock composed of red arkose, a coarse sandstone, that stand 340 metres above the surronding plain. It is 9.4 kilometres around the base and extending for several kilometres underground.
6. It glows red at dusk and dawn because of the positioning of the sun, when it has more atmospheric particles to travel through to hit the rock. The sun's rays change colour the more particles it has to go through. At midday the suns rays haven't got to go though as many atmospheric particles.
7. A drainage basin is an area of land that is drained away by a river and its tributaries. 
8. The Murray-Darling and the Lake Eyre Basins.
9. The Murray, Darling and the Murrumbidgee Rivers.
10. Most of the water disappears through evaporation.
11. The Finke River is the oldest river bed in the world and only flows a few days a year.
12. The Franklin River flows from the Cheyne Range to the Gordon River in Tasmania. It has become synonymous with conservation because the 'Battle to Save the Franklin' rescued it from major damming.
13. In July 1983 there was a High Court ruling that gave the Commonwealth power over the states and territories to protect nationally important environments.


14. The Australian Government should have control of the water because if it is over-used then the river will dry out and natural habitats will die out because there is not enough water for them to survive. The Murray-Darling Basin is very important: It contributes to about 40 percent of Australia's total agricultural output annually, it contains 70 percent of Australia's irrigated farmland and it supplies drinking water and domestic water for 2 million people. This is why we don't want the MDB to dry out.
15. a. The Western Plateau takes up all of Western Australia, all of the Northern Territory, most of South Australia and a small amount of New South wales. The Central lowlands is in Eastern Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The Eastern Plains takes up most of Queensland, about half of New South Wales, half of Victoria and all of Tasmania.
b. i. Western Plateau
ii. Western Plateau
iii. Central Lowlands
iv. Eastern Plains
v. Central Lowlands
c. i. Mount Woodroffe
ii. The Simpson Desert
d. i.0-200 metres above sea level
ii. 200-500 metres above sea level
iii. 200-1000 metres above sea level

Sunday, February 20, 2011

1.4 Questions

1. Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents.
2. The tectonic forces associated with plate margins that are responsible for creating major landform features.
3. Rodinia
4. Pangaea existed about 300 million years ago.
5. South America, Africa, India and Antarctica.
6. Australia is moving about 5cm north every year.
7. Less than one million years ago.
8. The main agent of erosion is aridity water.
9. The study of landforms.
10. They determine the processes that form and transform them.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Write a blog post explaining the positive and negative aspects of Australia having a long coastline and large EEZ. (give at least 5 dot points for each advantage/disadvantage)



  • An advantage of a large coastline is easier shipping and trade. This is because you can get closer to a destination.
  • Another advantage is fisheries get good business.
  • A disadvantage is more people need to guard the coastline to stop: attacks, asylum seekers and illegal fishing.
  • Its easier to get to other places because its not land locked with another country.
  • A disadvantage of a large EEZ is that it can start a dispute about who owns what part of the ocean.