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