1.11 Questions- Australia's Energy Resources

1. Coal, oil and gas.

2. Solar, wind and hydro-electricity

3. So the energy bills won't be very high and people will save money

4. China, US, India and Australia.

5. 76 billion tonnes

6. Australia is rich in natural gas with $5 billion worth.

7. In 2006 the government announced they would be building a huge solar power station near Mildura. It consists of field of mirrors each covering 0.8 square kilometres. Theses panels would be able to produce 1500 times more electricity than typical rooftop panels. This would provide huge amounts of electricity to Australia and  help cut back on our energy usage.

8. Electricity can be generated by wind turbines as the more powerful the wind is and the more the turbines spin the more electricity is generated which means more houses will be given power.

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10. I believe that if we are able to have the technology and the money to create these power sources than I think it would be a great idea.

13. There are many gas fields around the coast of Western Australia and inland of Queensland but the pipelines go through most of Australia.

14. a) i. $17 billion, ii. $5.5 billion, iii. $3 billion
b) i. $25 billion, ii. $14 billion, iii. $2.9 billion
c) Coal

Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

The recent natural disaster that has destroyed North-Eastern Japan on March 11 around 2:40pm on a quite and everyday Friday. The earthquake which recorded and 8.9 in magnitude shook buildings violently and collapsing hundreds of buildings which sadly crushed hundreds of people. The most affected areas of the earthquake were on the East coasts of Japan where the tsunami hit such as Sendai which was worst hit. This small little coastal village was completely obliterated not just from the earthquake but from the tsunami which was formed. Houses were taken away with the tsunami were thrown around like they were nothing, boats were tossed and turned on to buildings kilometres inland.


The earthquake also caused an devastating man-made disaster in Fukushima where a nuclear power plant had lost one of its cooling systems and masses of radiation was being emitted around the town where many people were showing sign of radiation.

Here is a video of what the devastation of the tsunami did.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2HPT7obWE

1.10 Questions- Australia's Natural Resources

1. Resources are any materials that are able to be used by humans.

2. Renewable sources are sources that can be reused over and over again. Non renewable sources are things that cannot be used over and over again.

3. A renewable resource can become non-renewable through over-exploitation.

4. Soil is a vital resource as it is the basis for Australia's successful agricultural industries and influential in the water cycle.

5. The cultivation of forest trees.

6. 164.4 million hectares

7. They are very important as they are worth more than $2 billion dollars annually as they are based on high level species of seafood.

8. They have set up limits on how much people can fish in Australian waters.

9. Uranium

10. Due to improved prospecting and extraction technologies.

11. Australia's forest resources are vast with major exports of wood every year and a billion dollar industry which is thriving.

12. As it is a valuable power source but also helps to create nuclear weapons.

13. They are of great significance on a national and global scale.

14.It impacts the landscape dramatically because it makes the land scape look like a big hole with barren land and nothing around it. As it could affect the flora and fauna around it with the high traces of radiation.

15. The location of Australia's fishing line is many kilometres around the coast of Australia and around its many islands and vast Great Barrier Reef.

16. a) There are many mines and former mines in the Northern Territory and South Australia but the deposit or prospect mine are scattered around Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
b) Radium Hill
c) Ranger

17.

18. a)
 i. Just under $300 million
ii. Around $250 million
iii. Around $560 million

b) $333.8 million
c) When Australia first started exporting the value was very high but it then dropped over a certain period of time but has now picked up and growing stronger than when it first started.

Australia's Natural Resources

1. a) Australia's largest export partner is China with 57, 922 products exported.
b) Food, beverages,
c) 19.2% of our total exporting goods
d) As China is having a real interest in our products such as food and beverages and many of Australia's products China doesn't have.
2. a) China
b)
c) 14.5% of our total importing goods
d) Australia imports many of China's products as it is cheap

1.7 Questions- Australia's Unique Flora and Fauna

1. Because Australia has being isolated to other countries for 50 million years that the plants and animals have evolved separately from those in other parts of  the world.

2. Due to the stability of the continent.

3. Endemic means species that are found nowhere else in the world.

4. 89%

5. Australia has three major areas of biodiversity which are the Great Barrier Reef, tropical rainforest of Queensland and the South-West Botanical Province of Western Australia.

6. The tropical rainforests of Queensland

7. Marsupials are mammals that carry their young in a pouch.

8.Monotremes are egg-laying mammals.

9. Kangaroos are typically larger than wallabies which are a small form of the kangaroo.

10. The duck-billed platypus which is a monotreme/egg-laying mammals which is only found in Australia. The females usually lay 2-3 eggs every time and lay them in a burrow. The platypus has webbed feet, a long bill and a paddle-like tail.

Endemic Plants to Australia- Bottle Brush

 

The native Australian Bottle Brush scientifically called Callistemon is one of Australia's native and unique flora. It is coloured in a bright red with long, very thin brushes (hence the name Bottle Brush). The shrub itself can grow very large into a small tree. 

1.6 Questions: Australia's Climate and Vegetation

1. Climate is the pattern of weather that is expected in a particular place, based on the experience of the previous 30 years. Where is weather is the actual temperature and and the rain, sun etc of each day.

2. Because the Earth receives more of the Sun's energy at the equator than at the poles so temperature are highest at the Equator and decrease as latitude increases.

3. Australia is affected by high pressure with low pressure in the north during the summer which brings dry, settled weather and in the south during the winter which brings unsettled weather.

4. Oceans influence climates by currents nearer the poles bring cooler conditions and currents nearer the Equator brings warmer conditions.

5. The influence of relief on climate As altitude increases, air becomes thinner and is less able to absorb and retain heat.


6. a) So they know what crops will grow well and how he/she is going to treat the crops he/she already has.
b) So they would not what to wear when they come to Australia and so they know what the weather is going to be like.


7. If the climate is hot certain vegetation will grow like low water shrubs and deserts compared to if it was cool and wet thick dense of tropical rainforests will grow. And because Australia has different climates all around the country the vegetation is different as well.


8. a) Darwin- 101.8, 71
Hobart- 40, 110.4
b) The averages will never give us the exact temperature and so we may never know what the exact climate will be.


9. a) Mlebourne
b) Alice Springs

Predicting the Weather: Exchange Student from Cyprus

Hi Felix

When you arrive in Sydney, Australia the weather he will be cold as we are heading into our Autumn and Winter. So generally pack warmer clothes such as jumpers and long pants i.e jeans and tracksuit. I know it is not what you are use to as Cyprus is usually always warm and the humidity is usually always high so I guess you wear shorts, t-shits and thongs everywhere. But I would bring a few t-shits and shorts as the weather can get quite warm some days.

You may also want to bring a beanie and thermals as we are going to Thredbo in May and although it is only near the beginning of Winter it can still get quite cold at night and in the mornings.



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