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and Pacific Ocean A A large part is covered with desert but you can also find dense forest Canberra is Australia's capital city. 1 P.1 cities Australia The biggest city is Sydney 8 •395.790 people •The capital is Canaberra •5,23 millions people • Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Gold Coast, Cairns, Newcastle, Townsville City, Wollongong, Geelong, Launceston, Toowoomba, Ballarat, Bendigo, Alice Springs, Waggg Wagga, Hervey Bay, Mackay, Bundaberg, Bunbury, Mildica, Geraldton, Dobbo Sydney, Tamworth, Orange City, Gladstone and so on P.2 Australia history James cook discovered Australia in 1770. 4 Britain sent prisoners and criminals to Australia. • Europeans sold the land of Aborigines and killed thousand of them. p3 Australia Great Barrier Reef Biggest coral reef system •The corals die because of the climate change. • A lot of animals life at the Great Barrier Reef- • the reef is around over 18 million years old • in terms of area, it is roughly the size of Germany • 2300 km long What is Great Barrier Reef? The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef worldwide and is considered one of the seven. natural wonders of the world. Coral reefs are living organism and play a vital role în our en- vironment by recycling carbon dioxide in the am- bience to create their tough skeletons. Dans p. 4 99 animals / porson animals • A lot of animals life in Australia, which live nowhere else in the world. Typical Animals • Kangaroo Koala • Wombat • Dingo • In Australia there are many poisonous animals. • The most poisonous animals in the world life there Australia ti ● Dangerous Animals • Taipan • Saltwater crocodile • Funnel - Web Spider More than 80% of the animals live only in Australia • Many dangerous animals • No big predators • Many in danger of extinction. p.5 Geography Australia Australian climate because of the large north-south extention of the continent -> very different climate zones Nothern section. •·tropical influenced climate • not and humid în summer. •quiet warm and dry in winter • dry season, rainy season O Southern areas; Ireland Tasmania • temperate climate • generally more temperate to worm •the tasmanian mountains to typical mountain climate desert and the outback areas. •central, arid climate • tempratures reach sometimes 50°C. • rain may not fall for years. area between Sydney and lorisbane •suptropical climate •comfortable temperature Be sunsmart • highest rate of skin cancer in the world. •many people have a suntan -> seen as cool and healthy • protect yourself p.6 Geography 11. Australia Population and other. • area : ca. 7,686,850 sq km. •21,1 million habitants. •Canberra -> capital • largest only -2 Sydney • majority white people. founded in 1901 bush fires •în fire season -> firefighters work round the clock. •get very little sleep • high temperatures + strong winds. 4 natural causes of bushfires. • often difficult to make people their names ith & P.Z Australia Sports in Australia General informations •Sport is an important part of Australian culture. •The climate allows spart activities during the whole year •Cricket is the most popular sport in the summer, while in the winter Australian rules football and rubgy league dominate, depending on the region History •Sport came to Australia 1810, when the first athletics. tournament was held •Soon after the tournament, horse racing, sailing clubs and cricket competitions started. • Australia's lower classes would play sports on public holidays • While the upper clan played Cricket CORS teams of eleven players. • It is played more on a regulary • Cricket is a bat and ball game played beetween two on Saturdays field wit a 20 metre pitch with a wicket at each end •The tournament is contested beetween teams from the six states of Australia •The australian national cricket team has won five cricket world cups and ICC champion titles in the past p. 8 Sports in Australia 11. Australian Rules Football •AFL is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players. on an ovelshaped field • Points are scored by licking the oval-shaped ball between the goal posts. •During general play, players may positions themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball Australia Rugby •On of the countries most popular sports since it started being •The primary methods are kicking, handballling and running with the ball played there in 1908. on Australian television •In 2009 it was the most watched sport • The elite club competition is the National Rugby League, which features ten teams from New South Wales, three teams from Quens land and one team each from Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. Rules O ❤ JARAY •played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field Much contact between the players. • Tachting is allowed After the sixth tackling the position of the ball changes p.g The Australian People - • For the first 150 years, nearly all immigrants. british or irish Australia • between 1945 and 1985 the population was more than doubled ● Melbourn for example is the biggest greek city after athens. • Everytime new immigrants brought other cultures, religions. or ways for cooking Education • Australians starts to going to school age of six the first six year they are in a primary school • they can do in a school they are from the state and private school they can to a да • school day: from Iam to 3:30 • After primary school are a secondary school another 6 years pm p. 10