Recebi de amigos, compartilho.

1. AUSTRALIA
by Ionela-Luiza Nicoară
Ş.A.M. NOCRICH

2. Historians
The first inhabitants of Australia were the
Aborigines, who migrated there at least
40.000 years ago from Southeast Asia. There
may have been between a half million to a
full million Aborigines at the time of
European settlement; today about 350.000
live in Australia.
Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish ships
sighted Australia in the 17th century. The
Dutch landed at the Gulf of Carpentaria in
1606. In 1616 the territory became known as
New Holland.
The British arrived in 1688, but it was not
until Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770
that Great Britain claimed possession of the
vast island, calling it New South Wales. A
British penal colony was set up at Port
Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and
about 161.000 transported English convicts
were settled there.

3. The first colonies
New South Wales (1786)
Tasmania (then Van
Diemen's Land) (1825)
Western Australia(1829)
South Australia (1834)
Victoria (1851)
Queensland (1859)

4. Geographers
Australia's landmass of 7.617.930 square
kilometres is on the Indo-Australian Plate.
Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific
oceans, it is separated from Asia by the
Arafura and Timor seas. The world's smallest
continent and sixth largest country by total
area.
Australia—owing to its size and isolation—is
often dubbed the “island continent” and
variably considered the world's largest
island.

5. Geographical position
The continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania, is
approximately equal in area to the United States (excluding Alaska and
Hawaii).
Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast,
reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko (7,308 ft; 2,228 m).
The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert plateau
that rises into barren, rolling hills near the west coast. The Great
Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 mi (2,000 km), lies along the
northeast coast.
The island of Tasmania (26,178 sq mi; 67,800 sq km) is off the
southeast coast.
Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock
formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central
Australia.

6. Major cities of Australia
The capital and largest
city of the Australian
state of Western
Australia is…
The largest city in
Australia and
Oceania is…
Australia
Capital is…

7. Canberra
Parliament house Carillion
Captain Cook Jet and National Library

8. Sydney
The Sydney Opera House Downtown from the Rocks
Sydney Harbour Bridge Sydney Harbour

9. Perth
Skyline of Perth Gouvernment House
Hay Street

10. Biologists
The flora of Australia comprises a vast
assemblage of plant species estimated to over
20.000 vascular and 14.000 non-vascular
plants, 250.000 species of fungi and over 3.000
lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the
AUSTRALIAN flora of Gondwana, and below the family level
has a highly endemic angiosperm flora whose
FLORA diversity was shaped by the effects of
continental drift and climate change since the
Cretaceous. Prominent features of the Australian
flora are adaptations to aridity and fire which
include scleromorphy and serotiny. These
adaptations are common in species from the
large and well-known families Proteaceae
(Banksia), Myrtaceae (Eucalyptus - gum
trees), and Fabaceae (Acacia - wattle).

11. ACACIA
BANKSIAS
EUCALYPTUS
GREVILLEAS

12. The fauna of Australia consists of a huge
variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of
reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of
amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic
to Australia. A unique feature of Australia's
fauna is the relative scarcity of native placental
mammals. Consequently the marsupials—a group
AUSTRALIAN of mammals that raise their young in a pouch,
including the macropods , possums and
FAUNA dasyuromorphs — occupy many of the ecological
niches placental animals occupy elsewhere in the
world. Australia is home to numerous venomous
species, which include the Platypus, spiders,
scorpions, octopus, jellyfish, molluscs, stonefish,
and stingrays. Uniquely, Australia has more
venomous than non-venomous species of snakes.

13. ECHIDNA TASMANIAN DEVIL
KOALA BEAR
PLATYPUS CROCODILE LYRE BIRD
PYGMY POSSUM
NUMBAT CUSCUS

14. Surprise…
If you click here you will identify cute symbol of Australia.

15. Kangaroo

16. Some aspects during the
development of the project

18. Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
http://www.e-australia.com.au/flora-and-fauna/
http://australian-animals.net/
http://www.australia.com/index.aspx
http://wikitravel.org/ro/Australia
http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/
Jeremy Harmer-The Practice of English
Language Teaching

19. Team project
Adam Vasile-7th grade
Corman Vasile-7th grade
Fâţan Lucia-7th grade
Mihu Edifta-7th grade
Piele Elena-Raluca-7th grade
Ştefan Mihai-Cătălin-7th grade
Ştefan Mihai-Alex-7th grade
Varga Paula-7th grade
Vlad Bianca-7th grade
Coordinator:
-teacher: Birtalan Armanda-Ramona
-teacher: Nicoară Ionela-Luiza

20. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!