Visiting Australia...

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Visiting Australia...
The Land Down Under
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• Food

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• Language

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• Religion

• Aussie Animals

• Outback QUIZ!

• History of Australia

• Bibliography

• Australia Today

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States Territories
Geography
The Land
The Water
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Where in the world can you find an island, a
continent, and a country all at the same
time? Australia ...that's where!!
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geography.
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States Territories

• Australia is the smallest of the worlds seven
  continents.
• It has six states and two territories.
• Five of the six states- Queensland, New South
  Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western
  Australia- are on the continent.
• The Northern Territory sits in north central
  Australia.
• The Australian Capital Territory in southeastern
  Australia includes the countrys capital city of
  Canberra.

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The Water

• Australia is an island.
• It is surrounded by water on all sides.
• The pacific Ocean is to the East.
• The Indian Ocean is to the south and west.
• The Tasman Sea cuts between Australia and New
  Zealand.
• The Coral Sea is on the northwestern coast.
• The Timor Sea and the Arafura Sea separate
  Australia from Indonesia and from Papua New
  Guinea, Australias closest neighbor to the north.

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• A low chain of mountains called the Great
  Dividing Range, runs from Cape York Peninsula in
  the north, almost to the city of Melbourne in the
  south.
• Near the southern end is Australias highest
  point, Mount Kosciusko.
• West of the mountains lies the Great Western
  Plateau.

THE LAND
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Australia's Deserts

• Great Sandy Desert
• Great Victoria Desert
• More than half of Australia is desert, which
  Australians call the outback.

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Amazing Aussie Animals!

• Kangaroo

• Koala bear

• Platypus

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The Kangaroo
The kangaroo is a part of the marsupial family.
Marsupials are mammals that carry their young in
a pouch on their belly. Kangaroos hop through
the forests and grasslands of southern and
eastern Australia.
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The Koala Bear
The koala bear isnt really a bear! It is a
cousin of the kangaroo. Koalas love to eat leaves
from Australias native eucalyptus trees.
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The Platypus
The platypus is a strange-looking mammal found in
rivers and streams in southeastern Australia. It
has fur and feeds milk to its young like mammals
do. But it lays eggs like snakes and birds do!
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Aussie Tucker

• Tucker is the Australian word for food.
• Australians are crazy about outdoor barbecues, or
  barbies. You might be surprised by their
  favorite hamburger topping- a slice of beet,
  called beetroot.
• Breakfast or brekkie as Australians call it can
  consist of cereal, toast, and coffee or tea.
  Sometimes they have eggs, baked beans, and
  sausages, also known as bangers. Australians
  may even eat spaghetti on toast for breakfast!

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History
The First Australians
Becoming Australia
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Speaking Strine

• Australias official language is English.
• However, Australians have their own accent called
  Strine.
• Other languages spoken in Australia are German,
  French, and Japanese.
• About 30 Aboriginal languages are still spoken,
  as well.

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Here are some Strine words their English
meanings.
STRINE ENGLISH barbie barbecue blue
argument bonzer fantastic chook chicken
Crissie Christmas fair dinkum really gday
good day lollie friends mates friends
nicked stole Oz Australia postie postal
worker sticky beak nosy person tea dinner
telly television
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The First Australians
Australias native people are known as
Aborigines, which means from the beginning. It
is believed that their ancestors sailed southward
from Asia to Australia a long time ago. Clues
show that Aborigines may have arrived 75,000
years ago! Aborigines traveled from place to
place in search of food. They used tree branches
to build temporary shelters that could be put up
quickly wherever they stopped.
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The Flag

• The Australian flag flies the British flag colors
  in its upper lefthand corner.

• The right side of the flag holds the five stars
  of the Southern Cross- a star formation seen in
  the Southern Hemisphere.

• A seven pointed star stands for the six states
  and the Northern Territory.

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Did you know...

• Australia is often called the Land Down Under
  because of its location. It sits in the Southern
  Hemisphere (the half of the earth that lies south
  of the equator.)
• The word Australia means southern place.
• Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are opposite
  those in the Northern Hemisphere. So when its
  summer in the U.S., its winter in Australia!

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• The Aborigines had Australia to themselves for
  thousands of years. However, in 1780, Captain
  James Cook landed on the shores of the continent.
  He took over the land in the name of his home
  country, Great Britain and Australia became a
  British colony.
• About eight years later, ships filled with
  British citizens and prisoners floated into
  Australias Botany Bay. During their prison
  terms, the convicts helped build the colonys
  first farms and settlements. Many stayed in
  Australia after serving their sentences and
  farmed the land or worked in city industries.
• Soon, many more settlers came. These people and
  their descendants are one of the reasons why
  Australia has such strong tries to Great Britain,
  and is a member of the British Commonwealth.

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Australia Today

• These days Asians are Australias fastest growing
  group of immigrants. Many people from China,
  India, Japan, Vietnam, and other Asian countries
  come to Australia in search of a better life.
• As you can see, Australia has an extremely
  diverse culture!

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Off to School!

• Kids in Australia begin their school year near
  the end of January, when kids in other parts of
  the world are already halfway through!
• There are three vacations of one to two weeks
  splitting the school year into four parts.
  Students also have a six-week vacation beginning
  in mid-December, when its summer in Australia.

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Australia's School of the Air

• Children who live on ranches, in mining camps,
  or in Aboriginal settlements are provided with a
  three-way radio. That way they can listen and
  speak to their teachers and classmates.
• They can even take music lessons, playing their
  instruments over the radio!
• Teachers visit each students home at least once
  a year. Tests and other projects are mailed back
  and forth.

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Religions in Australia

• About three out of every four Australians
  practice some form of the Christian religion.
• About 8 of Australians are Buddhist, Hindu,
  Jewish, Muslim, or Sikh.
• Some Australians say that they belong to no
  religion at all.

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Dreamtime

• Aboriginal religious beliefs are sometimes called
  the Dreamtime.
• During this time, Aborigines believe that
  powerful spirits moved about the earth creating
  the different landforms, such as mountains,
  rivers and deserts. They also created animals
  and humans and gave people laws and customs.
  When the spirit creatures had finished creating,
  they disappeared.
• Elders have the responsibility of passing on
  their culture. They use traditional dance and
  song to explain nature and
  history to the young people.

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1. Why is Australia referred to as the Land Down
Under?
a. It is located underground.

• It is located in the Southern Hemisphere.

c. It is located under water.
d. All of the above.
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2. What word do Australians use to refer to food?
a. Chow

• Grub

c. Tucker
d. None of the above.
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4. Australias kangaroo is a marsupial, which
means
a. it hops to get around.

• it carries its young in a pouch.

c. it eats eucalyptus leaves.
d. it lays eggs like birds and snakes.
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3. Australia is the only continent
a. that is also a country.

• that is bordered by an ocean.

c. that is also an island.
d. both a c
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5. Australians call their language ________.
a. Strine

• Twine

c. Aussie Talk
d. Crissie
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6. Dreamtime refers to
a. night time in Australia.

• bed time for children in Australia.

c. Aboriginal religious beliefs.
d. none of the above.
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7. A special type of schooling in Australia is
called _______.
a. School of the Outback.

• School Down Under.

c. School of the Air.
d. None of the above.
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8. In 1780, Captain James Cook landed in
Australia and...
a. had a picnic.

• started a war.

c. took prisoners back to his homeland.
d. took over the land and made it a colony of
Great Britain.
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9. What types of people live in Australia?
a. Aborigines

• Japanese Chinese

c. Vietnamese Indian
d. All of the above.
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10. In Strine, what does the word barbie mean?
a. A popular doll

• A barbecue

c. A piece of candy
d. A postal worker
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...that means "Fantastic" in Strine!
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Bibliography
McCollum, Sean. (1999) Australia.
Minneapolis, MN Carolrhoda Books,
Inc. Websites www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_Worl
d/ www.csu.edu.au/australia/ http//aolsvc.travel.
aol.com
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The Great Barrier Reef

• The Great Barrier Reef is an underwater seawall
  that stretches for about 1,250 miles along
  Australias northeastern coast.
• It is like one big fish tank! It is so enormous,
  astronauts have spotted it from outer space!!
• The seawall is actually a chain of over 2,500
  reefs made up of rocks and coral.
• The colorful coral is made from a liquid given
  off by trillions of little sea creatures called
  coral polyps. The liquid eventually hardens to a
  shell-like material.
• There are over 1,500 species of fish that live
  there!

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