A | B |
Topography | 1. The physical features of an area of land: its height and shape |
Community | 2. Formed by a group of people with something in common. |
The Dreaming | 3. The time in which Aboriginal people believe the Earth gained its current shape |
Indigenous People | 4. The descendents of the original inhabitants of an area |
Endemic | Native to a particular area and found nowhere else |
Masupials | 6. Animals which keep and feed their young in a pouch |
Isobars | 7. Lines which join places of equal area pressure on a synoptic map |
Sacred Sites | 8. Places where important events in the Dreaming took place |
Monotremes | 9. Egg laying mammals such as the platypus and echidna |
Tectonic | Refers to forces within the Earth causing earthquakes, folds, faults and volcanoes |
Latitude | the distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees |
Longitude | the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees |
Demography | the study of human population characteristics and patterns |
Epicentre | the point of the Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake is focused |
Biodiversity | the variety of all life forms of a region, including the genes, species and ecosystems |
Ecosystem | the group of all the plants and animals in a certain area, together with the environment to which they have adapted |