Lesson 16 - Traditional and modern approaches to environment

What does the term 'caring for country' refer to?

• Loving your country and its history

• Looking after the stories, places, resources, and culture of an area

• Looking after the people of your country

Aboriginal peoples refer to permanent sources of water as.....

• Running water

• Alive water

• Clear water

• Living water

How many Indigenous Protected Area's are there in Australia?

• 87

• 79

• 34

• 90

• 78

What is the purpose of the Indigenous Protected areas?

• To protect some of Australia's most fragile, vulnerable environments

• To give back what was taken from the Aboriginal people

• It is the right thing to do

What was the Aboriginal people's main tool in managing the land that started over 50,000 years ago?

• High-intensity fires

• Low-intensity fires

• Watering the plants

• Looking after the wildlife

Aboriginal people made frequent and planned use of fire... Why?

• to keep the country more open and easy to travel through, to promote the growth of fresh green grass and herbs that would attract animals

• To get the country used to burning so it had less of an affect each time it was done

TRUE or FALSE - cultural burning, when more frequent, largely decreased the severity of wild bushfires.

• True

• False

What species did the cultural burning wipe out thousands of years ago?

• Eucalyptus

• Megafauna

• Dinosaurs

It keeps the country more open and easy to travel through, to promote the growth of fresh green grass and herbs that would attract animals, as a means of signaling and hunting, and for the more obvious purposes such as warmth and cooking - What is this referring to?

• Living water

• High-intensity fires

• Cultural burning/controlled burning

What is the pyrocene?

• Small fires happening more often

• Less fires happening in bushfire season

• With climate change, fire is going to become a lot more prevalent, bigger bushfires (an age of fire).

• An age with no bushfires at all, only cultural burning