Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography 2015
- Austalia's Physical Features
- Flora and fona
- Climate
- Mt Kosiusko is the highest
- Landforms
- Great barrier Reef
- Natural Hazards
- Difference between natural disasters
and natural hazards
- Natural disaster has occured and
is the result of a hazard
- Natural Hazard is a potential source
of harm to a community
- The six types of hazards
- Atmospheric
- Cyclone
- Hail or electrical storm
- Blizards
- Bushfires
- Hydrogical
- Floods
- Tsunami
- Wave action
- Glaciers
- Geological
- Earthquakes
- Volcano
- Biological
- Disease epidemics
- Technological
- Accidents
- Epidemics
- Human
- War
- Crowd stampede
- Torrorism
- Different types of disasters
- Drought
- A drought is a period of time with
below average rainfall
- Imacts
- Economic: effects farmers through loss of
production and this effects rural towns
and large citys
- Enviroment:
- Loss of top soil
- Can lead to bushfires
- Social: loss of jobs and income
because of business failing
- El Nino
- Is when australia resives a drought and
South americal gets flooding
- Is caused by the change of air pressure
- What causes the currents to change
- The first image shows the normal currents ans
the second picture displays the el nino currents
- Bushfires
- Bushfires are most common in
south-east australia
- This is due the there being more fuel
which helps sustain the fire.
- There is more fuel in that area because
the soil is less arid
- Severe Thunder storms
- Can bring the following features
- Strong winds of 90km
- Hailstorms
- Tornatos
- Very heavy rain or flash flooding
- Tropical Cyclones
- Is a particular type of low pressure systems
- Are areas of warm moist air at rising rapidly
- Can feature
- Very strong winds
- Torrential rain
- Rough seas
- Storm surge
- Flooding
- Floods
- Is below average rainfall for that area
- What makes Australia unique?
- Fona and flora
- Australias fana and flora is very unique as australia has been isolated for millions of year.
- More than 80% of Australias flora and fona is found nowhere else on the earth
- Australias natural animals have adapted to our harch climets for example the kangaroo can smell water almost a mile away
- Size
- Flana
- Australia has 2 types that are different to other mammals
- marsupial
- is where the mammal keeps and feed the young in the pouch for a fuw months after birth
- Monotreme
- Is a mammal that lays eggs there only spiecies is platypus and echidna
- Austalias Geographical location
- Latitude (flat) and logatude
Between
- 10 south
- 44 south
- 112 east
- 154 east
- Closest countrys
- Indonesia
- New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Hemisphere
- Southern
- Eastern