Transcript Australia`s Size and Shape

Today
Mr Daly
Friday, 8 April 2016
• Website, Edmodo, Parental Note
• Class Rules
• Assessment Schedule
• Australia’s geographical dimensions and Worksheets
WALT (What are we learning today?)
WALT: Geographical Tools: Maps and Flow Charts
Australia’s geographical dimensions: Size and Shape
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Mr Daly’s Edmodo
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Mr Daly’s Parental Note
Parents Email and Signatures, please.
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Class Rules and Expectations
I will arrive to class on time and line up quietly
I will come prepared to class
I will raise my hand to speak
I will listen to and respect others in class
I will remain silent when Mr Daly delivers an instruction
I will remain seated in class and get permission before I get up or leave
If I am having trouble with anything, I will ask Mr Daly for help
I will complete all class work on time, to the best of my ability
Mr Daly
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WALT (What are we learning today?)
WALT: Geographical Tools: Maps and Flow Charts
Australia’s geographical dimensions: Size and Shape
Australia’s Size and Shape Facts
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Write down three interesting facts
Australia is the flattest continent, with an average height of only 330 metres above
sea level.
Australia is the driest inhabited continent with an average annual precipitation of
450 millimetres.
Australia has the lowest flow from its rivers compared with other continents.
Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world.
Australia is the only Island Continent – and the smallest.
Australia has six States and Two Territories.
Our Geographic Coordinates are 27 00 S, 133 00 E.
Australia’s Size and Shape
Australia compared to the United States of America
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Australia compared to Europe
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Australia compared to Japan
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Australia compared to the United Kingdom
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This map shows you the
two different climates
that Australia has.
The Tropic of Capricorn is
the line which divides the
two climates
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Australia has three major physical regions:
The Western Plateau, The Central Lowlands and The Eastern Highlands
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This map shows
you the
temperatures
which affect
enrivonments
around Australia
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This map shows you
average temparatures
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This map shows you
average rainfall
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This map shows water
sources.
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This map shows you
water temparatures
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This map shows you water movement around the globe
Geographical Origins of Australia
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Over 200 million years ago Australia was part of a great landmass
known as Pangaea.
This ‘supercontinent’ split in two, making Laurasia (which later
became Europe, Asia and North America) and Gondwanaland, which
consisted of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and South
America.
If you look at the shape of the present day continents of Africa and
South America on a world map, you can see how they may have once
fitted together.
Scientific studies have shown how the Earth’s crust has followed cycles
of joining and breaking up, this is called ‘continental drift’.
Geographical Origins of Australia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7LX5-ytOg
What evidence is there which supports this theory?
1. Exact same animal fossils found in South America and Africa
2. Plant fossils found in Arctic Regions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5q8hzF9VVE
Questions
1. What was the supercontinent called?