Food in Australia

The traditional diets of Aboriginal people varied across the country, why was this so?

• The different climates across Australia provides a wide variety of foods.
• Different shops in different areas
• The different groups prefer to eat different foods
• Some areas of Australia have less food than others.

Name this food

• Sugar Ant
• Honey Ant
• Bull Ant
• Red Honey Ant

Name this food

• Lilly pilly
• Currant
• Apple berry
• Rosella Fruit

Name this food

• Eucalyptus
• Pepper leaf
• Lemon Myrtle
• Sand paper fig

Name this food

• Beef
• Lamb
• Kangaroo
• Goat

 Why do you think the meat was salted, instead of left fresh?

• To preserve it for longer
• To add seasoning before it is cooked
• To make it taste better
• To hide the flavour of rotten meat

Why was rationing necessary in early settlement times? 

• To make sure the convicts were weak enough to not start a mutiny
• To ensure there was enough food to last until they could produce their own
• The rich had all the food and the poor had none
• Soldiers wanted to control the food supply to maintain order in the colony

Name this food

• Spinifex
• Wheat
• Barley 
• Kangaroo Grass

An advantage of Kangaroo grass is:

• It doesn't require extra watering
• It is perennial
• It does not require pesticides
• All of the above

Aboriginals were only hunters and gatherers

• True
• False