Year 9 Native Foods Test

What is the meaning of nomadic?

• To have something belong to you

• Someone who lives by travelling from place to place

• To prepare land for crops

• To use native ingredients in a recipe

What is the meaning of cultivation?

• The Europeans settling in Australia

• Someone who lives by travelling from place to place

• A system of religious devotion to food

• To prepare land for crops and gardening

Prior to European settlement, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders lived predominantly on which foods?

• Grains, beef and Kangaroo

• Dairy, plant foods, fish

• Plant foods, fruits, native animals and fish

• Grains, dairy, fruit and vegetables

How was kangaroo traditionally cooked by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

• Skinned and cooked in an underground fire

• Cooked in its skin over an open fire or in a ground oven

• Cut up and baked

• Stir fried

Approximately, how many years have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders inhabited (lived in) Australia?

• 600 years

• 6000 years

• 12,600 years

• 65,000 years

Which meat product has the highest percentage of protein?

• Pork

• Beef

• Kangaroo

• Chicken

Which two meat products have the lowest percentage of fat?

• Rabbit and lean lamb

• Kangaroo and lean pork

• Lean pork and lean chicken

• Rabbit and kangaroo

Due to their free-range lifestyle, wild animals such as kangaroo and deer, are most commonly known as what type of meat?

• Bush meat

• Large prey meat

• Marsupial Meat

• Game meat

Multi-pronged spears were predominantly (mainly) used for what type of food collection?

• Fishing

• Hunting kangaroo

• Gathering nuts

• Hunting Crocodile

What was the purpose of a coolgardie safe?

• To hang food on

• To store money in

• To hang clothes in

• To refrigerate