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Australian Aboriginal Agriculture

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is "agriculture"? (choose the BEST answer)

a)

Managing plants & animals for food & resources

b)

Growing plants

c)

Bioengineering

d)

Collecting plants & animals for food

2.

The advantages that Aboriginal agriculture had over European methods were: (choose as many as you want)

a)

Aboriginal methods didn't need extra water

b)

Aboriginal methods didn't need fertilisers

c)

Aboriginal methods didn't need any work

d)

Aboriginal methods didn't harm the environment

e)

Aboriginal methods produced food only Aboriginals could eat

3.

What type of vegetable was grown and harvested by many Aboriginal peoples?

a)

yam

b)

potato

c)

oranges

d)

turnip

4.

After Europeans arrived, a lot of the soft soil carefully managed by Aboriginal peoples over thousands of years was ruined by....

a)

sheep and cattle

b)

ploughing

c)

vandals

d)

wheat and cotton

5.

The trampling and compaction of the soil into a hard layer caused bigger floods, because

a)

the rain ran right off it and into the rivers

b)

the rain was attracted to it

c)

it caused more rain

d)

it made rivers flow backwards

6.

Aboriginal peoples would take seeds from one area and trade or give them away in other areas, causing some types of plant to...

a)

spread across the country

b)

die out

c)

stay in one area

d)

feed the birds

7.

Grain grindstones over 30,000 years old have been discovered in NSW, meaning that the Australian Aboriginals were the world's first...

a)

bakers

b)

butchers

c)

sailors

d)

stonemasons

8.

What animals did many Aboriginal tribes harvest from the Australian Alps at the same time every year?

a)

Bogong moths

b)

kangaroos

c)

emus

d)

bunyips

9.

What did Aboriginals use to clear land and create new forests and hunting grounds?

a)

fire

b)

ploughs

c)

tractors

d)

axes

10.

Some scientists think that the evidence of stone shelters, fireplaces and stone fish traps means that up to 10,000 Aboriginal people lived semi-permanently near..

a)

Brewarrina

b)

Bathurst

c)

Bogong

d)

Brisbane

11.

Aboriginal land management was for a long time not recognised by European settlers because (pick more than one)

a)

Aboriginal methods were very different to anything the Europeans had seen

b)

Europeans thought Aboriginals were just hunters

c)

Europeans wanted the land

d)

Aboriginals kept their methods secret

e)

Aboriginal methods destroyed the land