1.11 Questions 1-10, 13 and 14

1. Coal, Oil, and Gas.
2. Wind, sun and Hydro-electricity.
3. They are trying to make the the environment cleaner.
4. China, US, India and Australia.
5. It is proven that there is a coal reserve that is 76 million tonnes of coal.
6. It is estimated that there is enough gas until we run out in 2050.
7. It will use technology developed to power satellites and consist of fields of mirrors each covering 0.8 square kilometres.
8. Large turbines are turned by the wind generating electricity.
9. Advantages - It supplies 18000 households with their energy needs
                      - It will reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the next 25 years.
Disadvantages - waste of space
                       - if there is no wind no electricity is being created
                       - it is expensive to create such large objects.
10. They are all good ways of energy because all of them are renewable.
13. The main gas field is in south of QLD, north of NSW and in SA. The pipelines go everywhere but not in the north of WA.
14. a.i. $17 million
ii. $5.2 million
iii. $2.8 million
b.i. $25 million
ii. $6 million
iii. $2.7 million
c. Coal

1.10 Questions 1-18

1. A resource is any material that can be used by humans.
2. Renewable - a renewable resource is a resource that are unlimited like wind.
                      - a non-renewable resource is something that is limited like coal.
3. Over-exploitation can occur for example a forest is clear cut and the soil is exposed to erosion.
4. Without soil we wouldn't have trees and trees are very important to people and the world.
5. The manipulation of forest vegetation to accomplish a specific set of objectives. It controls forest establishment, composition and growth.
6. The total forest area of Australia is 164.4 million hectares.
7. They are worth more than $2 billion annually and are based on high-value species.
8. The Australian Fisheries Management Authority set a limit of 5265 tonnes for the southern blue fin tune catch in 2006.
9. Uranium.
10. By improved prospecting
11. Australia had 164.4 million hectares of forest. There is 162.7 million hectares of native forest area. Plantation forest had 1.7 million and less than 1% of native forest is harvested.
12. It is valuable because it is a very good power source but it can also be used for nuclear weapons. Millions of dollarts are put into the Australian economy through uranium exports.
13. They attract large numbers of tourists to Australia which benefits Australia's economy.
14. It can be bad because Aboriginal sites have been destroyed through uranium mining. This is bad because I respect the people that were he before us.
15. The fishing zones are mainly around the coasts and around the External Territories the Australia own.
16. a. The uranium mines are all around Australia but there are more on the western side of Australia and more north in Northern Australia.
b. Radium Hill
c. Ranger

17.
18.a. i. $300 million
ii. $250 million
iii. $550 million
b. $382 million
c. It starts of at about average goes up and then back down and then it hits its highest ever.

The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

1. The epicentre of the earthquake in Japan was just of the East coast of Japan, east of Sendai.
2. The earthquake was 8.9 on the richtor scale.
3. The most affected area is the city of Sendai and towns around it. Thousands of people had died and thousands are missing. And hundreds of thousands of people are homeless.

4. A nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan was destroyed and now radioactive materials are leaking and the radiation can kill people.

1.7 Questions - Australia's unique flora and fauna

1. Australia has been isolated from the rest of the world for 50 million years. This means that Australia has evolved differently.
2. Many species have survived for millions of years because of the stability of the continent.
3. Endemic is a species that is not found anywhere else in the world.
4. 89% of Australia's reptile are endemic.
5. The Great Barrier Reef, the tropical rain forests of Queensland and the south-west Botanical Province of Western Australia.
6. The tropical rain forest is the richest insect fauna of any area of the country.
7. A marsupial is an animal with a pouch. An example is the kangaroo.
8. A monotreme is an egg-laying mammal. An example is the echina.
9. Wallabies are generally smaller than kangaroos and prefer more rugged terrain.
10. Platypus' are monotremes and are endemic to Australia. They spend 12 hours a day swimming and searching for food. Their bill if very sensitive. The nostrils are on top of bill. Its eyes are closed underwater and it uses its bill and nostrils to find food.
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Questions 1.6

1. Climate is the pattern of weather that is expected in a particular place. Patterns of climate and vegetation are closely related because climate is the main factor that determines where plants can grow. Weather is short term and it is what is happening in the present time.
2. The Earth receives more of the Sun’s energy at the Equator than at the poles so temperatures are highest at the Equator and the temperatures decrease as latitude increases.
3. Typical summer weather map - low pressure in the north, high pressure in the south. Typical winter weather map - high pressure in the north, low pressure in the south.
4. Currents - Currents from nearer the poles bring cooler conditions and those from nearer the Equator bring warmer conditions.
5. Temperature decreases with height. Moist air that is forced to rise by mountains cools, and the water
vapour condenses, producing increased cloud cover and precipitation. Highland areas are cooler and wetter
than lowland areas.
6. a. Average climate statistics assist farmers to tell them when it is most suitable to plant their crops as they may want to plant them the month before a huge rainfall occurs. This also helps determine when to harvest their crops. For example you may need to plant in winter and the best time to harvest is the first of spring.  
b. Tourists may want to look at the forecast/ climate predicted if they are considering going away to a sunny place as they don't want it to rain.
7. Where there is a lot of vegetation, forest and woodland can be very hot and humid. Then there is the places where there is only a bit of shrub land, pasture and cropping and this is where there is sub tropical conditions, hot dry summer, warm dry winter.
8. a. Hobart- average of precipitation is 47.43 rainfall (mm) and the average temperature is 12.41 Celsius.
b. Darwin- average of precipitation is 142.4 rainfall (mm) and the average temperature is 27.59 Celsius. 
9. a. Alice Springs has the greatest temperature range as shown in source 1.29.
b. Melbourne has the most seasonal rainfall as by average, Melbourne is around 50 mm and Alice Spring is close to 30 mm of rainfall.

Viktor Reznov - Moscow, Russia

Sydney's Highs Lows and Average Temperatures

The weather is going to be a lot different to what you get in Moscow, Russia. As you can see on the graph the average temperatures will be low twenties and high teens. You wont need any of your snow jackets because it wont be snowing at all. As you can see below your temperatures are freezing compared to our temperatures in Sydney.

These graphs show the average precipitation in Sydney. Below shows the average precipitation for Moscow.

But during your stay you will be going to Thredbo. In Tredbo it is very cold so maybe you should bring your snow jacket.

The clothing will be different in Sydney but in Thredbo the temperature will be cold but not as cold as Moscow. You will need t-shirts, shorts, snow jacket, jumper, thermals and long pants of some sort.
See you soon,
Matt