| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Batholith | Volcanic formation caused by magma welling up |
| Catchment | An area drained by a river |
| Dreamtime | The time in the Aboriginal belief system when all living things were created |
| Epicormic | A shoot from a dormant bud |
| EEZ | The zone, stretching 200 nautical miles from the coast, over which a country has control |
| Geomorphologist | A geographer who studies landforms |
| Isobar | A line on a synoptic chart that joins places of equal air pressure |
| Lignotubers | Starchy swellings that contain dormant buds |
| Lunette | A crescent-shaped dune composed of sand and clay sediments |
| Mallee | A vegetation community in semi-arid zones of Australia |
| Metamorphic | A type of rock changed by great heat and pressure |
| Sclerophyll | A plan with thick leathery leaves |
| Sedimentary | A type of rock formed by sediments under pressure |
| Watershed | The dividing line between catchments |
| Xerophyte | A plant that has adapted to drought conditions |
| Flinders | Explorer who first used the name "Australia" |
| 23.5 | The tropic of Capricorn is located at ....... degrees south |
| 111 | The distance in kms between lines of latitude (approx.) |
| 6th | Australia is the ....... largest country |
| Heard | ....... island is Australia's most distant territory |
| Jervis Bay | This bay acts as a port for Canberra |
| Gondwana | The major continent from which Australia came |
| Pangaea | The super continent from which Laurasia came |
| Murrumbidgee | The 3rd longest river in Australia |
| Lake Eyre | This is the largest drainage basin in Australia |
| Temperate | Sydney lies in a ....... climate zone |
| Low | In Australia's summer, there is usually ...... pressure in the north |
| El Nino | A change in the circulation pattern in the south Pacific which leads to drought in Australia |
| Endemic | A species that is found no where else in the world is ...... |
| Monotremes | Egg laying mammals are called ...... |
| Marsupials | Mammals with pouches are called ....... |
| Relief | The distance on a map between the highest and lowest points |
| Aspect | The direction (north, south etc) that a slope faces (downwards) |
| Ephemerals | Plants that leave masses of dormant seeds when they die |
| Uranium | Australia has 30% of the total world resources of ........ |
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