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Title: Australian Geography Series WORKBOOK Year 3: Places Are Similar And Different © 2016 Ready-Ed Publications Printed in Australia Author: Lisa Craig Illustrators: Terry Allen, Melinda Brezmen, Alison Mutton

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Contents

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SECTION 1: DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLACES The Names Of Places Naming Places Place Names 1 Place Names 2 Types Of Australian Places Australian Places 1 Australian Places 2 Australian Places 3 Cities Urban Australia 1 Urban Australia 2 Urban Australia 3 Urban Australia 4 Isolated Places Rural Australia 1 Rural Australia 2 Rural Australia 3 Working In Rural Areas Work In Rural Areas 1 Work In Rural Areas 2 Rice Papua New Guinea Similarities And Differences Natural And Human Characteristics Characteristics Of The Kokoda Track Australia And Indonesia Employment In Sri Lanka Tea-Growing In Sri Lanka Tea-Growing In Queensland

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

Religion In Australia Australia And Religion 1 Australia And Religion 2 Religion In Asia Australia's Climate Zones Australia's Climate

35 36 37 38 39 40

SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING MAPS Maps Types Of Maps Finding Places Reading Maps Labelling Maps Creating Maps Visual Maps Seating Plan Continents Map Of Australia 1 Map Of Australia 2 Locating Places Within Australia

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53

SECTION 3: PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT Caring For Our Land 1 Caring For Our Land 2 Caring For Our Land 3 Protecting Places National Parks/Local Heritage

54 55 56 57 58 59

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A Note For The Student

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Year 3: Places Are Similar And Different has been written specifically for students in Year 3, who are living in Australia and studying Geography. The activity book has been divided into three parts: Different Types Of Places, Understanding Maps and Protecting Our Environment.

In Section 1, Different Types Of Places, you are encouraged to think about what it would be like to live in a different type of place to the place you now live. Among other activities, you will be asked to think about the human and natural characteristics of different types of places, compare and contrast rice growing in Australia and Indonesia, tea growing in Sri Lanka and Australia and investigate similarities and differences between Australia and Papua New Guinea.

In Section 2, Understanding Maps, activities and tasks are designed to build mapping skills in a variety of map types including: weather, political, natural resources and floor plans. You will be asked to locate places on a local, national and global scale using compass directions, grid references and scale. Special attention is given to locating places and features within Australia and locating countries on a map considered to be Australia's neighbours.

In Section 3, Protecting Our Environment, you will learn about the importance of caring for and protecting special places within Australia. You will consider the consequences of not caring for a place and devise strategies to improve places for all.

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Section 1:Publications' This is a Ready-Ed book preview. Diff erent Types Of Places

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The Names Of Places

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Dugong Bay

Crocodile Point Ti Tree

Goanna Swamp

Dingo

Blue Tongue Tank Wallaby Dam

Wattle Hill Bogong Creek Cockatoo

Whale Rock

How Do Places Get Their Names? Australia has over 240,000 place names! Every creek, cave, town, street and dry desert waterhole has to have a name. This is so that people can find places on a map and see what is nearby. Before a place is named officially, the history and meaning of the name is studied and its spelling and pronunciation checked. Our natural places and landscapes, such as plains, mountain ranges or deserts, were given their names by Indigenous Australians thousands of years ago. We still use many of the same names today. The table below shows how some places got their names.

Natural Features Possum Gully Crooked Creek Stony Desert Flat Rock Tall Gums Park Shady Lagoon

Indigenous Origin Bunya Mountains Kakadu Bondi Beach Pilbara Wagga Wagga Warrego Highway

Important Event ANZAC Square Christmas Island Disaster Reef Federation Point Australia Day Hill Somme

Historical People Darwin Bankstown Victoria Cooktown Lake Eyre Deakin

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Activity

Naming Places

T Imagine that it is your job to name a number of natural features in Australia. Write the names neatly on the map below next to the natural features. Study the map and the table on page 6 to give you some ideas. You can lightly shade your map when you have finished.

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T Choose two names on your map. Explain their significance.

Place 1:

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Place 2:

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Activity

Place Names 1

T Read the verse below taken from the famous song, “I’ve Been Everywhere”.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' I've been to … Wollongong, Geelong, Kurrajong, Mullumbimby, Mittagong, book preview. Molong, Grong Grong, Goondiwindi, Yarra Yarra, Boroondara, Wallangarra, Turramurra, Boggabri, Gundagai, Narrabri, Tibooburra, Gulgong, Adelong, Billabong, Cabramatta, Parramatta, Wangaratta, Coolangatta, … what's it matter? 1. What do you notice about the place names in the song? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 2. Create another verse for the song “I’ve Been Everywhere”. In this verse focus on one place and describe how you or other people feel about this place.

“I’ve been to …” ___________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________

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Activity

Place Names 2

Europeans arrived in Australia after 1788. They named a number of Australian places after landforms and towns that they had known in Europe. Did you know that all the states have at least one place named Fairfield and Hamilton?

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. T Look at the common suffixes that are on the end of British place names. SUFFIX field hurst wood gate

MEANING field wooded hill wood road

SUFFIX ham dale bourne port

MEANING village valley land stream harbour

1. Use your atlas to find place names in your state or territory that end with the suffixes listed in the table. Write the place names in the space below. You can highlight the suffixes on the place names. How many did you find? ______

2. Look at the famous landforms pictured below. Write down the indigenous and European names that have been given to each landform. Colour these world famous tourist attractions.

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Katoomba, New South Wales

European name:

Indigenous name:

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Types Of Australian Places

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Australians live in many different kinds of places on our big continent. Some people live in suburbs near the beach or on farms along slow-winding rivers. Other Australians live in deserts and build their houses under the ground to keep cool. Some people just love the snow and live in quiet mountain ranges, while others prefer the buzz of a big city. No matter where you live in Australia, it will have special features for you and others to enjoy. Let’s pay a quick visit to a place called Tin Can Bay in south-east Queensland. Tin Can Bay is a little seaside town about 220 kilometres north of Brisbane. People say that the town’s unusual

name comes from the indigenous word for the area, “Tuncanbar.” “Tuncanbar” means “dugong” in the Ka’bi language. The town has a population of 1,918, but many tourists visit during the holiday season. Fishing is the main industry and delicious prawns and crabs are caught in the warm waters of the bay. You can even meet and feed the friendly dolphins that visit the bay in the early morning. Boating, tennis and golf are other popular activities. The nearby Cooloola National Park has beautiful picnic areas and bushwalks. The rainforests and wetlands are home to parrots, possums, flying foxes and the Wallum rocket frog.

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Australian Places 1

T Look at the postcards of Burnie in Tasmania and Daly Waters in the Northern Territory on page 10.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. What do you think is special about these two places? Write two sentences to describe each place. Read your sentences to a partner.

BURNIE:

DALY WATERS:

2. Design a postcard for the place where you live. Think about how you would classify the place where you live. On the postcard you could include: a natural feature (river, lake, harbour, mountain, wildlife, etc.); facilities (park, cycling track, indoor or outdoor sport stadium, etc.); attraction (zoo, steam-train rides, planetarium, pioneer museum, etc.).

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Australian Places 2

T Read the information about Tin Can Bay on page 10.

1. Fill in the fact file below. This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Place name: _______________________________________________ FAC T FILE ON TIN C A N BAY

Meaning: _________________________________________________ Location: _________________________________________________ Population: _______________________________________________ Major attractions: ___________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 2. Is Tin Can Bay a place that you would like to visit? Give a reason for your answer. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 3. How is the place where you live different to, or the same as Tin Can Bay? Fill in the table below to show your ideas. Share your ideas with a classmate. Different

Same

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Activity

Australian Places 3

1. Use an atlas to locate and label the places listed below on the state map of Queensland. Brisbane Rockhampton Tin Can Bay Fraser Island Coral Sea Cairns Draw symbols for the following locations and place them on the map. NT

at B

arr ier

QLD

f Ree

for the capital city.

Gre

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SA NSW

Wallum Rocket Frog You will find the Wallum rocket frog in the wetlands near Tin Can Bay. Like many of Australia’s frogs, this frog is losing its home because its habitat is being disturbed. 2. Go to the website listed below to learn more about the Wallum rocket frog. http://www.ozanimals.com/Frog/ Freycinet's-Frog/Litoria/freycineti.html 3. Colour in the image (right) of the Wallum rocket frog after visiting the website. 4. Talk about how the frog’s colour helps it to survive in its wetland habitat.

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I think the frog’s colour helps it to survive because: ____________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Section 1: Different Types Of Places

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Activity

Cities

Most people in Australia live on the coast Publications' This is a Ready-Ed in big cities. In fact, fourteen million people live in just five big cities: Sydney, book Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and preview. Adelaide. Cities are called urban centres. In urban centres there are: • people living closely together in units, townhouses and houses; • large modern and historic buildings; • schools, universities and hospitals; • hotels, restaurants and shopping centres; • transport systems for cars, buses, trains and planes; • churches, museums, art galleries, entertainment and sports facilities.

How Places Become Cities Places grow into cities over a long period of time. Most cities in Australia began as small settlements near harbours or on rivers near the coast. Being located near the coast was important because ships needed to bring people, food and supplies to the settlement. Look at the images below. The first image shows Brisbane in its early days of settlement as a convict colony in 1835, and the second image shows Brisbane as the modern city that it is today.

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Town of Brisbane 1835

Brisbane City today

Source: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Source: User: E from the English Wikipedia

Activity

Urban Australia 1

T Read the information and look at the images on 14.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. What might we find in an urban centre that we might not find in a country town? Discuss what this tells you about the people who live in these places.

a) ____________________________________________________________ b) ____________________________________________________________

c) ____________________________________________________________ 2. Describe what you can see in the images of Brisbane. Write bullet-point answers.

Brisbane In The Past

Brisbane Today

3. How do you think people used the river in the early days of the convict settlement in Brisbane? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 4. How do people use the Brisbane River today? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 5. The Jaggera and Turrbal indigenous people lived in the Brisbane area before the Europeans arrived. What kinds of resources did the land around Brisbane provide for these people so that they could live? Look at the image taken in 1835 for ideas.

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Urban Australia 2

1. Conduct a survey in the class about how often your classmates use the facilities in your nearest city. Keep a tally of your classmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; answers for each question.

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Occasionally

Not Very often

How often do you go to the cinema? How often do you eat in a restaurant? How often do you visit a museum or exhibition? How often do you visit a zoo or wildlife reserve? How often do you picnic in parks/gardens? How often do you travel on a bus or train? How often do you go to a sports stadium? How often do you go to a post office? How often do you participate in a club? How often do you go to a play or a concert? 2. Which facilities did your classmates use most frequently? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 3. Which facility was not used very often? Can you think of a reason why it is not used very often by your classmates? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 4. What is your favourite place to visit in your nearest city? Why do you like it?

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Urban Australia 3

T Think about your favourite street in your nearest urban centre. What kinds of buildings or facilities are there in the street?

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' 1. Draw a plan of the street which includes the places that you like to visit. 2. Annotate your plan with the things that you like to see and do in the book preview. street. 3. My favourite street is _____________________________________

In Pairs T What kinds of jobs do people do in a city? Think about who works at an airport and a shopping centre. Write the names of the different jobs under the headings. Look at the examples.

Airport e.g. Air traffic controller

Shopping Centre e.g. Shop manager

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Urban Australia 4

T How much do you know about Perth, the capital city of the state of Western Australia and its Metropolitan Area? You can use your atlas and digital resources to research the answers to the questions below. Work with a partner to whiz through the quiz!

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The Perth Quiz True

False

1. More people live in Adelaide than Perth. 2. Yanchep is Perth’s most northern suburb. 3. The indigenous name for the Perth area is Boorloo. 4. Perth is situated 25 kilometres from the Indian Ocean. 5. Lake Pinjar is in the Perth Metropolitan Area. 6. Perth’s tallest building is “Central Park”. 7. Perth is the sunniest Australian capital city. 8. “The Fremantle Dentist” is a breeze that cools Perth. 9. Perth was first sighted by Matthew Flinders in 1697. 10. There are five universities in the Perth area. 11. The dibbler is a small marsupial found at Perth Zoo. 12. “Wellington Road” is Perth’s main rail station.

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13. The Perth Mint, which makes coins, opened in 1899. 14. Mt Agnes is a beautiful hill that looks over Perth.

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Isolated Places

Everyone has heard of “The Bush,” “The Outback,” This is a Ready-Ed or “Bullamakanka,” butPublications' you’ll never find these places on a map. These are names that Australians use to describe rural places that are far away from book preview. major cities.

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Where is “The Bush”? It depends on how far you have to travel by road to use services such as: mailing a letter, consulting a doctor or getting the internet connected. There are four terms used by the Australian Government to describe how far people and places are away from services:

50km

inner regional outer regional remote very remote. Australians from all walks of life live in places all over the continent. However, only one in forty people live in remote and very remote places. Almost 50% of people living in remote places are indigenous. How people live and use the land in rural areas is quite different to how people live in cities. Look at the map of Australia below. It shows rural places in the different categories of distance from services in urban centres. DARWIN Broome

Rabbit Flat

KEY

Cairns Karumba Mt Isa

Capital City Remote Very Remote

Kalgoorlie

Outer Regional Inner Regional

Emerald

Alice Springs Coober Pedy Ceduna

BRISBANE Broken Hill

Narrabri

PERTH Bunbury

Esperance

CANBERRA

ADELAIDE

SYDNEY Bega

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MELBOURNE

kilometres

500

1000

Strahan

HOBART

Activity

Rural Australia 1

T Use the map and information on page 19 to help you to answer the questions.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. Why are Rabbit Flat (NT) and Karumba (QLD) called very remote places?

______________________________________________________________

2. Can you think of some services that people living in remote areas may not be able to use very regularly? Discuss your response with a partner. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

3. Have you ever visited (or lived in) one of the regional places on the map? Can you describe some of the things that you can see and do in this place? OR You can explore and describe Narrabri (NSW) with an online mapping tool at: 30º 19’49.71’ S 149º 46’59.59’E. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 4. Locate Coober Pedy (SA) on the map. Use the scale on the map to estimate how far Coober Pedy is from Adelaide and Alice Springs. Write the distances on the sign below.

Coober Pedy

Alice Springs _______ KM

Adelaide _______ KM

Find Out! Why is Coober Pedy famous all over the world?

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Rural Australia 2

T Study the graph that shows where people live in Australia. Answer the questions based on the graph.

Number Of People In Millions (e.g. 16 = 16 Million People)

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Major Cities

Inner Regional

Outer Regional

Remote

Very Remote

1. How many people live in major cities in Australia? _____________________________________________________________ 2. How many people live in regional places around Australia? _____________________________________________________________ 3. Estimate how many people live in remote areas. Is it more or less than one million people? How can you tell from the graph? _____________________________________________________________ 4. Only one in forty people live in remote places. How can you show this data in a graph? Work with a partner to produce a graph in the space below.

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Rural Australia 3

T Read about the “School of the Air” that brings children living in remote areas together to learn.

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Children living in remote areas in the outback have an exciting way of going to school. Their lessons are beamed into their homes and communities by satellites in all states except Tasmania. Long gone are the days when homework took weeks to reach teachers by mail and kids listened to their lessons by radio that was powered by pedalling.

Today’s School of the Air classroom is powered by the internet, interactive whiteboards and web cameras. Even though students live hundreds of kilometres away from the teacher and each other, they can still participate in the same lesson. Class sizes are small so teachers know their students very well and give them plenty of personal attention. To make sure that children can build friendships away from their computer monitors, special trips are arranged for classmates to meet face to face. School of the Air classes might be different, but this way of learning produces very good results for the hard-working students in remote areas of Australia. Studying from home is becoming more and more popular around the world because of technology.

T In pairs, discuss what you think are the advantages and disadvantages of studying your lessons at home. Write your ideas in bullet-points in the table below. Advantages

Disadvantages

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Working In Rural Areas

Farmsis in rural Australia are very important for This a Ready-Ed Publications' Australia’s economy. Farmers grow enough food for our needs and then they export their products to preview. other parts of thebook world. Australian farm products wine lamb 10% 9%

cotton 12% wool 14%

wheat 31%

are sold mainly to China, Japan and Indonesia. Look beef 24% at the pie chart (right) which shows the top six farm products that Australian farmers export. To produce large amounts of agricultural products, farmers have to take care of their land. Water is a precious resource in all parts of Australia. Water is very precious in rural areas because of droughts. Farmers have to manage their water supplies carefully so that crops and animals can grow and thrive. They also have to look after the soil to make sure that it does not erode and blow away. A Crop Up Close: Rice From The Riverina Most of Australia’s rice is produced in the Riverina area of New South Wales. This area is called the Riverina because the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers supply water to irrigate food crops. Rice crops need lots of water to grow. Leeton is the rice capital of Australia. Rice growers export their grain to more than 70 countries. In some years, however, farmers can’t produce big rice crops because of drought and water restrictions. Farmers have a saying, "If there’s no water, there’s no rice crop". Interesting Facts About Rice • Australian rice growers can produce enough rice in one year to feed 20 million people around the world every day. • Riverina rice farmers recycle their water to use for the next rice crop. • More than half the people on the planet eat rice every day. • Eating rice gives our brains energy to think. • We throw rice grains at weddings because it is a symbol of life. • Rice was first grown in India over 4,000 years ago.

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Work In Rural Areas 1

T Read the information on page 23 to help you to complete the tasks below.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. Draw lines to complete the sentences below. i. Australia’s biggest export crop is

a) lamb.

ii. Australia mostly exports food products to

b) food crops.

iii. Australia exports almost 3 times more beef than

c) wind.

iv. Droughts can seriously damage

d) wheat.

v. Eroded soil can easily be swept away by

e) Asia.

2. Use your atlas to label the features listed below on the map of the Riverina. •

The Murray, Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers.

NSW

• The rice growing centres of Hay and Leeton.

SA Sydney

• The rice mill at Deniliquin. • Shade in lightly the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (between the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers).

VIC Melbourne

ACT Pacific Ocean

3. What makes the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area a good place for growing rice? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

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Work In Rural Areas 2

T Study the images below and make notes next to each picture. If you had to work harvesting rice, where would you rather carry out this work and why? Record your response on another sheet of paper.

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_________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ Who is harvesting the rice? _________________________________ Who is going to eat the harvested rice? _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________

Image B Rice Growing In The Riverina

What is the land like where the rice is growing? _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ Who is harvesting the rice? _________________________________

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Rice

T Listen to the story from the Karen people of northern Thailand - your teacher will read it to you. Write a caption explaining what happened under the four episodes illustrated below from the story.

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Papua New Guinea

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA < << << < < < <<

The Kokoda Track in the Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea (see map right) is celebrated in Australian history. During World War II Australian troops, who were greatly outnumbered, fought off the advancing Japanese Imperial Army in the rugged rainforest-covered mountains. Each year, Australian tourists venture to Papua New Guinea to follow in the footsteps of the diggers and experience the beauty and wildness of this landscape. To continue this connection with Papua New Guinea, the Australian Government has been working with local authorities to protect this important part of Australia’s heritage.

Port Moresby Torres Strait

AUSTRALIA

Buna

Owen Stanley Ranges

local authorities. The track weaves its way through the homelands of Papua New Guineans. Up to 5,000 tourists per year trek the Kokoda Track and their presence has impacts on the villagers and the natural environment. The Australian Government is currently working closely with communities to help improve the lives of local people and at the same time develop tourist facilities along the track.

Help Given To Local Communities

Partnerships With Local Communities The Owen Stanley Ranges is home to a variety of unique plants and animals, like Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo, which is found nowhere else on the planet. The 96 kilometre trek from Buna to Port Moresby is Papua New Guinea’s biggest tourist attraction and provides important income for national and

Australian aid is invested in projects to: • improve water supplies and build toilet facilities; • build community schools and to train teachers; • train health workers and supply health centres with equipment; • help local people to look after their natural heritage; • construct river crossings to reduce the risk of accidents on the Kokoda Track.

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Similarities And Differences

T Read the information on page 27 to help you to answer the questions below.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. What does the information suggest about water supplies in Papua New Guinea?

____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________

2. What does the text suggest about education in Papua New Guinea? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 3. What does the text suggest about medical facilities in Papua New Guinea? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________

A Comparison T In what hat ways a s do you o think your o r life in Australia is similar to or different from a young person's life in Papua New Guinea? Use the information on page 27 together with additional research to complete the table below.

Your Life

Life In Papua New Guinea

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Natural And Human Characteristics

T Australian aid is being used to improve the lives of local communities along the Kokoda Track. Choose two projects from page 27. Describe what you think the benefits will be for local people and tourists. An example has been done for you.

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Help local people look after their natural heritage.

Benefits For Villagers

Help protect natural places and wildlife for future generations.

Benefits For Tourists

Tourists can visit unique places and learn about different cultures.

Natural Characteristics th can be found in the T Research one of the unique insects or animals that Owen Stanley Ranges. Draw a sketch of the insect or animal and write a brief description of it. Below are some suggestions for your research. Goodfellowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tree Kangaroo

Queen Alexandra Butterfly

Bird Of Paradise

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Characteristics Of The Kokoda Track

T What would walking the Kokoda Track be like? Read through the website below for ideas.

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T Imagine that you are a tourist trekking on the Kokoda Track. Write two diary entries about your experiences in different places along the trek. Make your entries as vivid as possible by including details about the natural environment, the weather, the people who you are trekking with and the local people who you have met along the way. Date:

Date:

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Australia And Indonesia

T Study the data about Australia’s tropical grasslands and the grasslands of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.

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East Nusa Tenggara Province

Land Area: 1.93 million km2. Population: 600,000. Population Density: 3.2 (people living in one square kilometre). Land Use: Cattle-raising on large pastoral properties, mining, tourism, agriculture, vast areas of untouched savannahs, conservation areas for fauna and flora.

Land Area: 47,876 km2. Population: 5,000,000. Population Density: 102 (people living in one square kilometre). Land Use: Small land holdings growing crops (fruit trees, vegetables, cassava, cocoa, coffee beans, tobacco, spices), timber products, raising livestock (cattle, pigs), tourism.

1. Compare the use of tropical savannah lands in northern Australia and East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Write three facts.

Fact 1

Fact 2

Fact 3

2. Complete the legend to compare East Nusa Tenggara’s population density to Australia’s savannah land population density. You will be working with fractions.

Australia

East Nusa Tenggara

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Employment In Sri Lanka

WorkersPublications' In This is a Ready-Ed The TeaGrowing book preview. Industry Cups of tea are enjoyed by millions of people every day. Growing tea is an important industry for the Sri Lankan economy. Read about the people who work in the tea growing industry in Sri Lanka.

China India Bay of Bengal

Sri Lanka Colombo

Kandy Indian Ocean

Tea-Growing In Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is an island smaller than Tasmania, but has a population equal to that of Australia’s. Sri Lanka is located in the Indian Ocean, south of India (see map above). It is known as the “pearl drop of the Indian Ocean.” The climate of Sri Lanka is tropical. The weather is hot and humid. Like Northern Australia, Sri Lanka has a wet season, which brings heavy monsoon rains. The tea-growing areas of the island are found in the cooler highlands around Kandy in the centre of Sri Lanka.

About one million Sri Lankan workers are involved in the tea industry. About 85% of the workers are young women, who can begin working as young as twelve years of age. Many girls follow their mothers and grandmothers in the tradition of going to work on the tea plantations. They live in accommodation near the mountain slopes, where they may also be asked to do domestic work for the plantation owners. Planting tea bushes on the sides of mountains and harvesting tea leaves is a job that requires skill. For the best quality tea, the tea leaves are plucked by hand and not by machines. An experienced worker can pick up to 20 kilograms of tea leaves a day. For a day’s work, a woman could earn $4.00. The tea leaves are then taken to a factory on the plantation and carefully dried and inspected for quality. The packaged tea is exported to many countries around the world, such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth largest producer of black, green and white tea.

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Tea-Growing In Sri Lanka

T Read the information on page 32 to help you to complete the questions below. 1. Why is Sri Lanka known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the pearl drop of the Indian Oceanâ&#x20AC;??

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2. What kind of climate does Sri Lanka have? How is it similar to parts of Australia? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3. Where is tea grown on the island? _______________________________________________________________ 4. Why is the workforce on the tea plantations mainly made up of women? Give three reasons to support your answer. a.______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ b. _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ c. ______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 5. How is a 12 year old Australian girl's life different to a 12 year old Sri Lankan girl's life? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 6. What evidence can you find that tea production is important to the economy of Sri Lanka?

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Tea-Growing In Queensland

T Read about tea-growing in North Queensland.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Tea is grown in North Queensland by the Nerada Company on the misty slopes of the Atherton Tablelands. This region has a similar climate to the highlands of central Sri Lanka and the lower slopes of the Himalayan Mountains in India. On the plantations there are factories set up to check the quality of the tea at every stage of its production. Each morning experts taste the tea made from the processed leaves that day, to make sure that the taste is the same in each batch.

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Atherton Tablelands

QLD Brisbane

All the tea production is automated. This means that during the harvesting period from December to March in the monsoon season, the mechanical harvesters run 24 hours a day. Unlike tea plantations in Sri Lanka, Kenya in Africa and India, the North Queensland producers do not have large numbers of labourers to work on the plantations. The Nerada tea-growersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; aim is to produce high quality tea to sell in Australia, not for export to other countries.

1. Look again at the information on page 32 about tea-growing in Sri Lanka. How is tea-growing in Sri Lanka different to tea-growing in North Queensland? Highlight in the text the differences in tea-growing between Sri Lanka and North Queensland.

Think About This 2. Look at this data about the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major producers of tea and their share of the market (%). Do you think that tea-growing is an expanding export in Australia? Justify your answer.

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Religion In Australia

The First This is Australians a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Australia is a multicultural home to many religions. Indigenous Australians from different clans shared a view that the land and nature have living souls and are powerful beings. As Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders spread over the continent 40,000 years ago, they developed stories to explain how their particular environment was created and the laws that they should live by. Each clan had their own beliefs to follow and these were handed down to each generation through the Dreaming stories.

The Arrival Of Christianity The First Fleet brought Europeans to Australian shores in 1788. The men and women aboard the convict hulks, and their guards, brought their Christian beliefs to Australia. Most of the administrators, soldiers and convicts were of the Anglican faith, but there were also Irish Catholics, Methodists and Presbyterian passengers. The first place of Christian worship was St. Phillips - a mud-brick church built in 1793 by Reverend

Richard Johnson in Sydney. During the 19th century, Christian churches and missions were established throughout Australia.

The Arrival Of Other Religions The great waves of migrants over the last 225 years have brought many of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religions to Australia. Three hundred years before European settlement, Macassan trepang traders celebrated the beliefs of Islam in Northern Australia. Later, Muslim Afghan cameleers built their mosques in outback New South Wales in the 1860s. The First Fleet carried fifteen Jewish convicts, who were followed by free Jewish settlers from Europe. They built their first synagogue in 1844. These are just some of the religious faiths currently practised in Australia that were brought to Australia by migrant groups in the early years of colonisation.

Who Brought What Religion To Australia JUDAISM Jewish convicts in 1788 and early settlers in the 1800s. BUDDHISM Chinese and Japanese goldminers in the 1850s. HINDUISM Indian and Sri Lankan canecutters in the 1880s.

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ISLAM Afghan and Northern Indian cameleers in the 1860s. SIKHISM Indian canecutters and labourers in the 1880s.

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Australia And Religion 1

T Read the information on page 35 to help you to complete the tasks and questions below.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. • Sikhism • Christianity • Buddhism • Judaism • Islam • Hinduism 1. Complete the living graph to show the order that the listed religions were introduced in Australia.

Present

7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Indigenous religions

40,000 years ago 2. Religious communities have names for the places in which they worship. Use the information on page 35 together with your own research to find out the names of these places. BUDDHISM Place:

CHRISTIANITY Place:

SIKHISM Place:

HINDUISM Place:

ISLAM Place:

JUDAISM Place:

3. Did Indigenous Australians have a particular place for celebrating their beliefs?

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Australia And Religion 2

T Study the graph which shows the number of people in Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major religious communities. Use the information from page 35 together with the graph to help you to answer the questions.

Religious Communities (in millions)

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Judaism

Other

1. How many people in Australia belong to a Christian religion? ______________ 2. Why is Christianity still the major religion practised in Australia? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 3. Which community brought Buddhism to Australia? ______________________ 4. Estimate the number of Buddhists in Australia. __________________________

Share With The Class Choose a special day which is celebrated in your religion or a religion that you know. Complete the information below. Special day: ____________________________________________________ Why this day is celebrated:________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

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Religion In Asia

T Hindus in India and Southeast Asia have ceremonies and rituals that they practise according to the teachings of their religion. Read about how a baby’s birth is celebrated in Hinduism.

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China India

Hindus Australia

When a baby is born in a Hindu family a priest called a Brahm is called to perform a special ceremony. He says prayers asking for the baby to grow up healthy and for the mother’s well-being. After ten days, another ceremony takes place. This is when the baby is given a name. A horoscope is drawn up to help the parents determine what kind of personality the child will have. The horoscope is also used later to set a good wedding date.

1. In the table below, compare how a baby’s birth is celebrated in your family. If you are a Hindu, you could add more details about these ceremonies. SAME

DIFFERENT

2. Religions have holy places that believers would like to visit. Draw lines to match the holy places with the religious communities. A . Catholics

1. Varanasi on the Ganges River in India.

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2. The Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel.

C. Hindus

3. The Vatican in the Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

D. Jews

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Australia’s Climate Zones

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. You’ve probably heard people talk about the “Australian Climate” and images of sunny summers and wet winters come to mind. The fact is that Australia is a vast continent that experiences not just one type of climate. While people swelter in the tropical heat in Cairns in January, others in Hobart may be turning on the heater at night. Large states and territories can have several climate zones. The state of Queensland has six different types of climate in

its 1 723 936 kilometre 2 area (an area five times the size of Japan). Queensland’s climates range from hot and humid in the Gulf Country to the cool forests of the Atherton Tableland. There are six main climate zones in Australia. These zones have been determined by temperature and humidity (rainfall and water vapour) patterns recorded over a long period of time. The map below left shows these climate zones.

CLIMATE ZONES OF AUSTRALIA

Other Factors Which Influence Australia’s Climate In addition to temperature and rainfall, the following characteristics also influence the climate of a region: the altitude or elevation of a place (for example, a high mountain);

KEY: hot & humid hot dry summer - warm winter hot dry summer - cold winter

wind patterns in the Southern Hemisphere (southeast trade winds, westerlies); types of vegetation (dense vegetation absorbs heat, snow reflects heat, etc.).

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Australia's Climate

T Read the information on page 39 to help you to answer the questions and complete the task below.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. Why does Australia have a variety of climate zones?

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2. In which types of climates do most people in Australia live? Think about the five most populated cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 3. What types of weather affect climate? ____________________________________________________________________ 4. What is the climate like in the state where you live? ____________________________________________________________________ 5. Write a paragraph about what it would be like to live in a place with a different climate to the one you normally experience. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 6. Research: Find out the relationship between latitude and climate. Record your findings below. ____________________________________________________________________

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Maps Our planet is a sphere that has Types OfPublications' Maps This is a Ready-Ed millions of amazing places to Maps can focus explore. However, walking around on certain with a globe sticking out of your preview. book information pocket to find these places would not be very practical. A flat map can guide you to where you want to go. Maps represent places and the distance and direction between places. They also provide other information so that you will be prepared for your journey and won’t get lost. It is useful to learn how to read the information that a map provides. On maps you can find: • a title (for example: The City of Adelaide); • a north arrow (or points of the compass); • a key (or legend); • a frame (or border); • a scale. Key

about places. For example, a topographic map shows you landforms like mountains, rivers and oceans. A political map displays the borders of countries and states, and their major cities. Maps are very useful in our daily lives. You can use them to book the seats that you would like at the cinema, find your favourite store in the shopping centre or even design a backyard garden that will attract wildlife. The information on the map below will help you to plan your day.

Today's Weather For Seal Island sunny Newport

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T Look at the different types of maps below. Label each map using the words in the text box.

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Jakarta

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motorway railway line

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airport

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port

AUSTRALIA INDIAN OCEAN

Brisbane Perth Adelaide

Sydney Canberra Melbourne Hobart

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restaurant

theatre

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information centre

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KITCHEN

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BEDROOM 2

BEDROOM 4

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ROSE AND FLOWER GARDEN

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Finding Places

Activity 1. Label the compass points.

North

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2. Look at the map below of a zoo and answer the questions.

In which direction will you walk from the: a. giraffes to the crocodiles?

d. elephants to the wombats?

________________________ b. monkeys to the camels?

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f. polar bears to the giraffes?

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Reading Maps

T Study the map on page 42 and complete the questions.

1. Whatis information does the map give you? Publications' This a Ready-Ed __________________________________________________________ book preview. 2. What is the mapâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title? __________________________________________________________ 3. How should you dress in the morning if you live in Hilltop? __________________________________________________________ 4. Which town is south of Newport? __________________________________________________________ 5. Estimate the distance between Newport and Hilltop in kilometres. __________________________________________________________ 6. Who would find this map useful? (E.g. people thinking of going skiing near Hilltop that day.) Write your ideas in bullet-points. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 7. Imagine that the weather forecast for all of Seal Island tomorrow is very cloudy with thunderstorms in some areas and strong winds near the sea. Design symbols to show this type of weather. Label all the symbols.

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Labelling Maps

T Read the information about our Earth, then complete the task.

• Our Earth is a a globe that is always rotating on its axis. We call the This is Ready-Ed Publications' northern point of this axis, the North Pole and the southern point, the South Pole. book preview. • We can also locate places on the Earth by dividing the globe with imaginary lines. The line that divides the globe in the middle is called the Equator. • To the north of the Equator is the Tropic of Cancer. To the south is the Tropic of Capricorn. Between these two lines of latitude are the regions of the planet where the tropical rainforests, coral reefs and savannahs are located. • Close to the North Pole we find the line called the Arctic Circle. At the South Pole, the line is the Antarctic Circle. T Label all of the bolded words in the information box above. Shade the land mass green.

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Creating Maps

T Calico Jack was a pirate who roamed the seas of the Caribbean in the 18th century looking for ships to plunder for their gold and jewels. 1. Your task is to create a map of an island (on piece of paper or in your exercise book) which includes Calico Jack’s hidden treasure chest. Don’t forget to include a title, north arrow, key and if you want, a scale. You may add more features to your map such as landforms and place names. 2. Write directions in the space below that will help a friend find the treasure. Number each direction. When you have finished, read out the directions to a classmate. Ask your classmate to mark the spot where they think the treasure is buried with a big X.

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How To Find Calico Jack’s Treasure ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Shipwreck Spit

______________________________________________________ Pirate Pete's Grave

______________________________________________________ Briny Swamp

______________________________________________________ Crab Cove

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Visual Maps

Activity

T Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening at the frog pond today? Locate the things at the frog pond using the grid squares. For example: in grid square B2 there is a swan.

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T What are the locations of the following: bee

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small lily pad ______________

snail

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frog

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Seating Plan

Your class is putting on a play for your grandparents. Below is a seating plan of the Drama Hall. The plan is arranged in three sections: left, centre and right. There are three rows: A, B and C. For example, the only seat booked in the front row of the right section is Right A 2 (row A, seat 2).

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. T Study the seating plan closely and complete the following questions. SEATING PLAN FOR DRAMA HALL KEY Booked Seats

Available Seats

1. How many seats are still available for the performance? 2. The principal has booked a seat at the back so that she can duck out quietly if she’s needed. Which seat do you think she’s booked? Shade it red on the plan. 3. Kim’s four grandparents are attending the play. Will they be able to sit together? Where would you book seats for them? Shade the seats on the plan. 4. Alex’s grandparents have trouble with their hearing. Which seats might you book for them? Write out their seat places on the tickets below.

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Continents

T Use your atlas to help you to label the six continents of the world on the map.

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K T Write down other animals or plants that you know that live on the continents listed below.

North America South America Africa

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Map Of Australia 1

Australia is the world’s oldest continent. It is a flat continent that has been weathered by wind and rain over millions of years. This is why much of the Australian territory has a sunburnt red look and the large mountains have disappeared. Our continent may be ancient, but it is very rich in mineral and gas deposits. These deposits formed when Australia was part of the Gondwana supercontinent.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. T Study the map below that shows Australia’s major mineral resources. N

LEGEND coal iron

Northern Territory

oil bauxite gold

Western Australia

Queensland South Australia

lead & zinc

New South Wales

uranium

Victoria

silver copper

Tasmania

1. Where are Australia’s major coal deposits found? _____________________________________________________________ 2. In what type of area does bauxite form? _____________________________________________________________ 3. Many of Australia’s minerals are found in desert areas. Why is this so? _____________________________________________________________

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4. Which precious metals are mined in Western Australia and Victoria?

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Map Of Australia 2

T Study the map below of Australia and its neighbouring countries of Oceania. Complete the questions by using the information from the map.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' Map Of Oceania book preview. SOLOMON ISLANDS

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Jakarta

INDONESIA

EAST TIMOR Darwin

FIJI

AUSTRALIA Brisbane

INDIAN OCEAN

Perth Sydney Canberra

Adelaide

Melbourne

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PACIFIC OCEAN NEW ZEALAND Wellington

Hobart

KILOMETRES

1. Name four countries that belong to the Oceania region. _____________________________________________________________ 2. True or false? Write your answers in the spaces. a. Canberra is closer to Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand) than it is to Perth. b. Darwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nearest neighbour to the north-west is Indonesia. c. Perth is south west of New Zealand. d. Adelaide is about 1,700 kilometres from Brisbane. 3. Colour Papua New Guinea. To which Australian state is it closest?

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Locating Places Within Australia

T Use your atlas for this task.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. On the map below label the major cities and regional centres in each state or territory. 2. Draw in a river that you know on the map.

3. Label the Great Dividing Range and the Great Barrier Reef on the map.

N Indian Ocean Coral Sea

Northern Territory Queensland

Western Australia

South Australia New South Wales Southern Ocean Victoria

LEGEND capital city agriculture regional centre mining fishing industry tourism coal alps

Bass Strait Tasmania

Deserts in Australia that I know are:

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Caring For Our Land 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. T Read the story below entitled The Sea Eagle and the Gull from the Bardi Indigenous Australians have known for many generations that we must care for the land and the sea. Dreaming Stories often describe what would happen to people and animals if natural resources were not used responsibly.

people of Cape Leveque, Western Australia.

The Sea Eagle and the Gull Long before people walked the Earth, there was a beautiful island in the ocean. This island was home to animals big and small. Snakes and lizards, birds and insects lived on the land. The ocean was full of dolphins, sharks, turtles, crocodiles and fish. All the animals were happy to call this island their home.

do as I please.” The gull started eating more than his fair share of food and then he invited his gull friends to do the same. Soon all the animals were eating much more than they needed. Dugongs and crabs, sharks and parrots were eating everything in sight. Weeks passed. Food was not so easy to find. The Each animal had its place. The lizards animals realised that they had made ate the turtle’s eggs and the crocodiles a big mistake and had to leave the ate the lizards. In the ocean, the big island to look for food in other places. fish ate the little fish and the sharks ate the big fish. The animals only When the sea eagle returned, he ate what they needed. This was the found the island almost empty. He natural way. It was the sea eagle’s knew what had happened and went job to make sure that no animal was straight to the gull. He asked, “What’s greedy and ate more than it needed. been going on here?” The gull shook This was the job of all sea eagles, his head and replied in a cheeky voice, handed down from father to son since “Nothing. There’s still plenty of food the beginning. around if you know where to look!” To prove his point, the gull started eating One day the sea eagle needed to scraps of food, pretending they were leave the island. He asked the gull tasty. “Well then, Gull, since you like to look after the island while he was eating the scraps other animals leave, gone. The gull was happy to you will never eat a fresh fish again.” do this. As he watched the This is why you’ll see gulls on the eagle fly away he thought, beach fighting over the tidbits of food “Now I’m the boss, I can which you leave.

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Caring For Our Land 2

T Make a storyboard of the main events in The Sea Eagle and the Gull. The first scene has been done for you. Use your storyboard to retell this story to a classmate.

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Caring For Our Land 3

T After reading The Sea Eagle and the Gull on page 55, answer the questions below.

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. 1. Why was the island a happy place for the creatures to live?

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2. What was the sea eagleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job on the island? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 3. Why do you think the gull did such a bad job of looking after the island? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

Image Analysis T Study the image below. What could be some of the consequences for the people and sea creatures in this area?

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Protecting Places

T Look at this picture of a park. Think about whether you would like to visit this park.

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T How could you make improvements to this park? Make a list of five jobs that need to be done to make this park a more enjoyable place to visit. 1.

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National Parks/Local Heritage

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' T Look at the twobook heritage sitespreview. below. How should we be looking after Our heritage is all the things that make us uniquely Australian. We need to look after places from the past and the present so future Australians and other people around the world can enjoy and share in Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage.

these places? Draw your ideas of how these places should look in the box next to the pictures.

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