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Today

WALT: Geographical Tools: Maps and Flow Charts

Australia’s geographical dimensions: Size and Shape

• Class Rules

• Assessment Schedule

• Website, Edmodo, Parental Note

WALT (What are we learning today?)

• Australia’s geographical dimensions and Worksheets

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Mr Daly’s Parental Note

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Class Rules and ExpectationsI will arrive to class on time and line up quietly

I will raise my hand to speak

I will listen to and respect others in class

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

I will remain silent when Mr Daly delivers an instruction

I will come prepared to class

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WALT: Geographical Tools: Maps and Flow Charts

Australia’s geographical dimensions: Size and Shape

WALT (What are we learning today?)

Australia’s Size and Shape 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.

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Write down three interesting facts

Australia’s Size and Shape

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Australia compared to the United States of America Australia compared to Europe

Australia’s Size and Shape

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Australia compared to Japan Australia compared to the United Kingdom

Australia’s Size and Shape

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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

Australia’s Size and Shape

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Australia has three major physical regions: The Western Plateau, The Central Lowlands and The Eastern Highlands

Australia’s Size and Shape

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This map shows you the

temperatures which affect

enrivonments around Australia

Australia’s Size and Shape

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This map shows you average temparatures

This map shows you average rainfall

Australia’s Size and Shape

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This map shows water sources.

Australia’s Size and Shape

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This map shows you water temparatures

Australia’s Size and Shape

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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

Geographical Origins of Australia

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5q8hzF9VVE

Questions

1. What was the supercontinent called?