Monday, February 28, 2011

Cavs Geography Homework 1.5



1. The Western Plateau, the Central Lowlands and the Eastern Highlands.
2. The Australian alps stretch from the Brindabella Range north of Canberra to the  Baw Range east Melbourne.
3. They are more rounded from erosion.
4. Uluru is located 335 km west of Alice Springs in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
5. Uluru is the second largest monolith in the world. It measures 9.4 km around the base and extending for several km underground. For millions of years sediments were collected under shallow seas in this depression and were compressed into rock. When the sea receded about 300 million years ago the rocks were folded and tilted nearly 90 degrees into their present position.
6. The way that the sun's ray passes through the atmosphere affects the lighting on Uluru e.g. more rays of sunlight pass through the atmosphere in the early hour of the morning or at twilight.
7. An area of land that is drained by a river and its tributaries.
8. Murray darling and Lake Eyre.
9. The Murray Darling River, Lake Eyre basin and The Franklin River.
10. It evaporated because the water barley moves therefor just collects heat until it evaporates
11. It only flows a few days a year.
12. It is located in the Tasmanian wilderness World Heritage area. It has become synonymous with conservation ever since the 1980's where they were trying to damn it for hydroelectricity.
13. The ruling was a landmark decision both environmentally and constitutionally.

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