The Australian Outback by https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4 written/designed by Leonie & Lea (6B) en-us 2020-05-21 17:27:30 UTC 2023-01-20 02:18:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Where is the outback? https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599653901
  • Northern Territory
  • South Australia
  • Queensland 
  • Western Australia

    • ]]>     2020-05-28 17:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599653901     Temperatures in the australian outback https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599659684
    • over 35 degrees celsius and sometimes above 40 degrees celsius
    • 300 millimeters rainfall per year
    • Summers hot
    • Winter mild and even freezing
    • 4 different climate zones

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  • Kangaroos, saltwater crocodiles
  • Frilled-necked Lizard 
  • Thorny devil
  • Dingo
  • Australian Feral Camels
    • ]]>     2020-05-28 17:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599676314     Dangerous animals https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599693657 Textile Cone -> possess a neurotoxin, powerful enough to easily kill a human

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    ]]>     2020-05-28 17:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599698555     The difference between the outback and the bush https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599707638 the Outback:
    • is the vast, remote interior of Australia
    • is more remote than the bush 

    the Bush:
    • is any location outside the main urban areas
    • can be pretty much anywhere
    • is anywhere there is enough trees and shrubs

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  • third-largest town in the Northern Territory 
  • is placed nearly exactly in the middle of Australia 
  • famous sights: Ayers Rocks, Olgas, Kings Canyon, Finke Gorge National Park 
    • ]]>     2020-05-28 17:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599708208     Who lives in the outback? https://padlet.com/english_ag/emjree0rh5jfepv4/wish/599709926
  • 10 percent of the countries population (60,000 people) lives in  the Outback 
  • small villages-> widely separated by deserts; connected by several highways
  • large cattle and sheep farms
  •  aboriginal communities 

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  • sun-> enormous energy-> sun burn, skin cancer etc.
  • heatwaves-> period of excessively hot weather 
  • droughts-> Millenium drought of 2000, affected most of southern Australia, including its largest cities and largest agricultural region
  • bushfires-> don’t just burn animals to death but create starvation events, also caused by climate change 

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