Question

Task 1

1. Who are the earliest known inhabitants of Australia?
2. Where is Australia Located?
3. How does the size of Australia compare with that of the United States?
4. What is the most famous feature of Australia’s landscape?
5. What is the name of the largest coral reef in the world?
6. Where are the five largest cities in Australia Located?
7. Why are the animals and birds of Australia different from the animals and
birds found in other parts of the World?
8. What are the tow maim islands that make up the country of New
Zealand?
9. How do the people in the Hot-Water Belt region of North Island heat their
homes?
10.How were most of the pacific Islands formed?
11.Which season of the year does not exist in the tropical islands of the
pacific?
12.What makes the air comfortable in the tropical islands of the pacific,
even though the climate is warm and humid?

Task 2
Answer the following questions in complete sentences
1. Describe the five marginal information of the map.
2. What is the difference between physical and cultural maps?
3. What is map Distance?
4. State the bearing that matches with the compass direction below:
A. North East:-
B. South :-
5. State the compass direction that matches with the bearing below:
A. 360o
B. 0o
6. Convert the following representative fraction into scale statement.
A. 1:40,000 is the same as saying 1cm = km
B. 1:200,000 is the same as saying 1cm = km
7. Convert the following scale statement into representative fraction.
A. 2cm to 20km
B. 3cm to 15km
8. The distance between two points on a map is 20cm. The scale of the map
is 1:50,000. Find the ground distance.
9. The distance between two points on a map is 7cm. The scale of the map
is 2cm to 4km. find the ground distance.
10. Using the given scale, determine the actual length of the following line
segments. Scale is 1:150,000 and distance on a map = 5 cm.
11. Select your answer and tick ( )
Representative Fraction (R.F) Large Medium Small
scale scale Small
1:400000
1:10000
1:300000
1:130000
1:70000
1:35000
12. Using the Scale 1:200,000 determine the actual area of the following geographical features.
Show your steps properly.

Answer 1

1.Aboriginal people are known to have occupied mainland Australia for at least 65,000 years. It is widely accepted that this predates the human settlement of Europe and the Americas.

2.Australia, one of the Oceania countries is located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

3.Australia is about 1.3 times smaller than United States.

United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 78.72% the size of United States.

4.Located in the heart of the Northern Territory, Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, is the largest monolith in the world. Noted for its natural and cultural value, it is certainly one of the most well known Aussie Landmarks and the greatest of all Australian landforms if you are touring and sight seeing Down Under.

5.Stretching for 1,429 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 square miles , the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world.

6.Sydney (5.230m),Melbourne (4.936m),Brisbane (2.463m),Perth (2.059m) and Adelaide (1.346m)

7.Australia and its territories are home to around 800 species of bird;45% of these are endemic to Australia.The fossil record of birds in Australia is patchy; however, there are records of the ancestors of contemporary species as early as the Late Oligocene.Birds with a Gondwanan history include the flightless ratites (the emu and southern cassowary),megapodes (the malleefowl and Australian brush-turkey),and a huge group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes. Australian parrots comprise a sixth of the world's parrots,including many cockatoos and galahs.The kookaburra is the largest species of the kingfisher family, known for its call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter.

8.Lying in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand consists of two main islands - the North Island and the South Island. Stewart Island and many smaller islands lie offshore.

9.In New Zealand heating is expensive (typically accounting for about 30 per cent of a household's annual energy consumption). As energy prices rise and houses are getting bigger it is likely to cost even more. Most people use electricity, gas or wood to heat their homes.

10.The Pacific Ocean evolved in the Mesozoic from the Panthalassic Ocean, which had formed when Rodinia rifted apart around 750 Ma. The first ocean floor which is part of the current Pacific Plate began 160 Ma to the west of the central Pacific and subsequently developed into the largest oceanic plate on Earth.