Australia: position, relief, climate and nature
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Find the Great Dividing Range, Lake Eyre North and the Murray and Darling rivers in the atlas and draw them on a blank map.
The Great Dividing Range — in the east; Lake Eyre North — in the centre-south; the Murray and Darling — in the south-east.
2
Tasman discovered Tasmania in 1642. How many years have passed up to 2026?
384
3
Cook explored Australia’s east coast in 1770 and Janszoon arrived in 1606. How many years apart?
164
4
Write one difference between the lives of kangaroos and koalas and Africa’s savanna animals (zebra, antelope).
Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials that raise their young in a pouch; zebras and antelopes give birth to well-developed young with no pouch.