Australia

Question 0

The world’s largest single rock

Answer 0

Uluru

Question 1

The world’s largest coral reef, located off the coast of Australia.

Answer 1

The Great Barrier Reef

Question 2

Capital of Australia

Answer 2

Canberra

Question 3

Dune

Answer 3

Sand hill formed by wind

Question 4

Aborigines

Answer 4

Native people of Australia

Question 5

Strait

Answer 5

A narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water

Question 6

Artesian water

Answer 6

Water trapped underground with such great pressure that it gushes through any opening. Pumps are not needed.

Question 7

Basin

Answer 7

Land drained by a river or a depression in the surface of the land

Question 8

Divide

Answer 8

A ridge or other high place where the streams on one side flow in the opposite direction

Question 9

What is unique about Australia as a continent?

Answer 9

It is also a nation. It is also the smallest, flattest, and driest.

Question 10

Why is Australia known as the land down under?

Answer 10

Because it’s in the Southern Hemisphere

Question 11

Animals of Australia

Answer 11

Kangaroo, koala, platypus, wombat, dingo, Tasmanian Devil

Question 12

Native Australian birds

Answer 12

Emu, kookaburra, cockatoo

Question 13

Two native trees of Australia

Answer 13

Eucalyptus(gum) and acacia

Question 14

What is the Australian Outback?

Answer 14

The interior of the continent. Mostly countryside used for grazing. There are a few settlements and mining towns.

Question 15

Where do most of the people live in Australia?

Answer 15

Near the coast, particularly the east coast

Question 16

How do the seasons in Australia compare to our seasons?

Answer 16

They are opposite.

Question 17

How does Tasmania differ from the rest of the Australian States?

Answer 17

It is an island.

Question 18

Three mountain ranges in Australia,

Answer 18

Great Dividing Range, Australian Alps, Darling Range

Question 19

What can be found in Lake Eyre?

Answer 19

Dinosaur bones

Question 20

What is found on cave walls in Uluru?

Answer 20

Aboriginal cave paintings

Question 21

Three main deserts in Australia.

Answer 21

Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert

Question 22

Where are most of the deserts in Australia?

Answer 22

In the western part

Question 23

When and by whom was Australia discovered? What country did he represent?

Answer 23

In 1770 by James Cook of England

Question 24

What name did James Cook give Australia?

Answer 24

New South Wales

Question 25

What event in American history directly affected the settling of Australia?

Answer 25

The Revolution because the British could no longer send convicts to the American colonies. They started sending prisoners to Australia in January 1788.

Question 26

What city did the first prison settlement in Australia eventually become?

Answer 26

Sydney

Question 27

What event in 1851 attracted a new rush of settlers?

Answer 27

Gold rush

Question 28

When did Australia become an independent nation?

Answer 28

January 1, 1901

Question 29

What are the major exports of Australia

Answer 29

Oil, coal, wheat, cattle, gas, wool, sugar