Australia's Physical Features

Australia's Physical Features

The Great Victoria Desert

• A sparsely populated (few people live there) area that covers much of western and southern Australia.

Multiple Choice

The Great Victoria Desert is located in the south and west of Australia.

• True

• False

Ayers Rock, AKA Uluru

Uluru is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in Australia.

Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area.

Aborigines

This word (pronounced ab-uh-RIH-juh-neez) is the name for the indigenous peoples of Australia.

Multiple Choice

Uluru is sacred to the _________________ people of Australia.

• A. Aborigines

• B. Indigenous people

• C. Both A & B

• D. None of the above

The Indian Ocean

This ocean is off the western coast of Australia. It stretches between Africa, Asia (India), and Australia.

The Great Dividing Range

This mountain range is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the fifth longest land-based range in the world. It runs roughly parallel to the East Coast of Australia and stretches more than 2,175 miles.

Multiple Choice

The Great Dividing Range is located along which coast?

• Northern

• Southern

• Western

• Eastern

The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Multiple Choice

The Great Barrier Reef is made of...

• underwater rock

• hardened lava

• abandoned turtle shells

• sea life called coral

The Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is located in the Coral Sea.

Multiple Choice

Off of which Australian coast will you find the Coral Sea?

• Northeast

• Northwest

• Southeast

• Southwest

The Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the last body of water that touches Australia. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.

Multiple Choice

The Pacific Ocean is located to the _______ of Australia.

• North

• South

• East

• West

Physical Features of Australia

Think you could label each of these features on a map? Your geography quiz will be tomorrow! Memorize where these features are located.