Welcome to Australia

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Welcome to Australia
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Australia is the only continent that is also a
country and an island.
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Canberra is the capital of Australia. This is
the Parliament house in Canberra.
Australias flag has the British Union Flag, five
stars for the Southern Cross constellation, and a
large star for the commonwealth.
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Australias Coats of Arm
It has a kangaroo and an emu wattle blossoms a
shield with coats of arms of the six states and
a star for the Commonwealth.
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The Five States in Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Western Australia
South Australia
New South Wales
Tasmania
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The Look of the Land
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These hills are considered mountains in
Australia.
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The Great Western Plateau The plants here are
mostly drought-resistant mulga scrub.
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The Gibber Desert This desert gets about 5 inches
of rain a year.It is covered with wind polished
stones. Gibber is the aboriginal word for stones.
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The Eastern Highlands This is one of the many
water falls in Southern Queensland that pours
into a mossy canyon.
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City Life
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This is a busy railroad station in Perth. Perth
is a city on the southwest coast in Australia.
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This is the city of Melbourne. Almost All of
Australias people live in cities. These cities
have shops, restaurants, and tall buildings just
like those in the U.S.
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This is the Sydney Opera House. It is one of the
most famous buildings in Sydney.
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Life on the Cattle and Sheep Station
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The best-known job in Australia is farming. The
wide, open spaces of the countryside are the
perfect place for raising animals such as cattle
and sheep.
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The Outback It is mainly deserts and grasslands
on which cattle and sheep graze.
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Sheep and cows are raised by the ranchers in
Australia.
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This man has a sheep station in the Outback. A
station is like a ranch. He has thousands of
sheep on his station. His workers uses dogs to
find his sheep, and they often ride motorcycles
to round up the sheep.
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Aborigines have lived in Australia for thousands
of years. Some of them work in the Outback and
have their own cattle stations.
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Much of south and central Australia is very hot
and dry. It is called the Outback. Alice
Spring is the biggest town in the Outback.
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Aborigines are descendants of Australia's first
settlers. They came to Australia thousands of
years ago. Their history is similar to the
American Indians. Most Aborigines live in rural
areas. But recently more young people are moving
to the cities.
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Aborigine boys playing at corroborees just as you
play at doing grown-up things. Corroborees are
special tribal dances where the aborigines retell
stories. The dancers chant and stamp their feet
to the sound of pipes called didjeridooos.
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Long ago, aborigines believe the earth was flat
and empty. Then, their world of light and dark,
rocks and plants, birds and animals was formed by
the deeds of a race of mysterious creatures.
This was the creation of Dreamtime. They drew
these pictures on bark and cave walls.
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A Bark Painting This painting was done on the
inside of the bark of a Eucalyptus tree. Can you
find two kangaroos, a marsupial rat, a goanna, an
emu, a long neck turtle,and a straw bag?
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Aboriginal Bark Painting
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The Ayers Rock belongs to the Aborigines. Their
name for it is Uluru. The cave painting done by
the Aborigines in the caves at Uluru are very
famous.
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The Ayers Rock is the largest one-piece rock in
the world.
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This is one of the cave drawing on the cave wall
at Uluru (or Ayers Rock.)
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Work In Australia
The wool and meat from these animals will be sold
to people all over the world.
This is an opal miner in Cober Pedy.
Cowboys from Victoria
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Barbeque in Australia-(Salad, steak, drink) How
does it compare to our cookouts?
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Cattleman cooks outdoors in Victoria.
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Australians eat many of the same foods we do.
Meat, potatoes, and bread are all favorite
dishes. Fresh vegetables and fruit are popular,
too. They also like foods from other countries.
Cooking Noodles at a market in Darwin.
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Pastimes
Camel Race at Alice Springs
Lifeguards
Yacht Race
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Team sports are very popular. Rugby is very
rough and dangerous. Cricket is a little like
American baseball.The men below are playing
football.
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School in Australia
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Australian children start school when they are
about five years old. They learn math, reading,
science, and writing just as you do.
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Students in the outback live to far away to
attend regular schools. Instead, they learn
through schools of the air. Students receive and
turn in their homework by mail. Teachers and
students talk to each other on twoway radios.
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Animals in Australia
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Marsupials give birth to tiny, underdeveloped
young. The young continue to develop, often in
pouches, or folds of skin , on their mothers
belly. Many of Australian mammals belong to this
group. Marsupials feed at night.
Mountain Possum
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The Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves and sleep in the
branches of eucalyptus trees.
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With her baby safe in her lap, the mother koala
reaches for food. The marsupials eat only the
leaves of the eucalyptus trees. The leaves give
them all the water they need. They live in the
treetops of the eucalyptus tree.
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The Wallaby is part of the kangaroo family, but
smaller. This wallaby is unusual. Do you know
why?
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During a quarrel real or just in play- one
kangaroo uses it tail as a prop while it tries to
kick the other. Kangaroos usually lives together
peacefully.
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The baby joey returns to its mothers pouch for
food and protection.
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Kangaroos often get hit by cars on the roads, so
cars have roo bars in front of their engines.
This bar protects the engines and lights if a
kangaroos suddenly hop into the road.
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Patches of white mark the thick woolly coat of a
spotted cuscus. This round-faced animal has a
yellowish nose and bulging yellow eyes. He uses
his tail as an extra hand. A cuscus is a
marsupial about the size of a cat. Some people
mistake them for monkeys.
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Built for burrowing, the wombat waddles on short,
powerful legs. Wombats use mostly their strong
front legs to dig tunnels. The wombat is a
marsupials.
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The glider is a member of the possum family. A
glider stretches out flaps of skin that catch
the air the way wings do. It can travel the
length of a football field. It feeds at night on
leaves, fruit, sap and insects.
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Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. Platypuses
and echidnas are the only monotremes.
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A platypus, is a strange animal that has a bill
and webbed feet like a duck,fur like a otter,
and a tail like a beaver. It hatches it babies
from eggs.
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A young echidna lies curled in a flap of skin on
its mothers belly. It wont be there much
longer. Its spines have begun to appear. Once
they start poking the mother, she will put the
your echidna in a hollow log or among rocks and
care for it there.
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A flock of emus race through a field. These huge
birds run fast- as fast as 30 miles an hour- and
far. But they cant fly.
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Moving gently, a male emu tends a nest full of
green eggs. After the female emu lays the eggs,
the male takes over. He hatches them and takes
care of the chicks
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The female bowerbird watches the male. He
decorates the nest with bits of colored materials.
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The frilled lizard strikes a scary pose atop a
termite mound. This reptile may grow up to 3
feet long.
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An angry frill-necked lizard ruffles its frills
to frighten an enemy.
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This is the Tasmanian devil. A disturbed
Tasmanian devil snarls and will freeze in a
threatening posture and stay that way until the
enemy goes away. They eat mostly dead animals.
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The Great Barrier Reef
It is the worlds largest coral reef. The reef
is about 1,250 miles. Its beauty attracts many
skin divers.
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Great Barrier Reef This is what you might see
through a glass-bottom boat.
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A female weedy sea dragon and her young drift
through the water, pushed along by transparent
fins.
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Bye! I hope you liked your visit to Australia.