AUSTRALIA

By: Jake Ball

LAND REGIONS Highlands in the east, lowlands in the central

area, and in the west there are plateaus.

RIVERS, LAKES, AND OCEANS

Coral Sea, Great Australian Bright, Indian Ocean, Tasman Sea, Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens, Lake Gairdner, Lake St. Clair, The Murray River, The Murrumbidgee.

PLANT AND ANIMALS

Koala Bears, Thorny Devil, Sea Eagles, Xanthorrhoea Pressii, Gravillea “Bronze Rambler”

FORESTS, DESERTS, MOUNTAINS & MINERALS Australia has 149.4 million hectares of forests

comprising 147.4 million hectares of native forests and 2 million hectares of plantations. This is about 8 hectares of forest for each Australian, one of the highest areas of forest per person in the world. Minerals: Opal, Hematite, Copper.

SPECIAL THANKS TO

http://australian-animals.net/ http://www.daff.gov.au/forestry/national/aust

ralias-forests http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Australian_famous

_lakes http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/austra

lian-story/austn-rivers http://www.australianminesatlas.gov.au/build

/images/copcrystal.gif http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/Mineral_Pictu

res/Opal_Australia.jpg http://www.crocoite.com/realindex.html http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/ass

ets/images/article/journal/11030/glass-house-mountains-tibrogargan-queensland.jpg

http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30002668/2010/07/2010-07-22-15-04-57-10-red-dunes-spot-evergreen-plateaus.jpeg

http://interactivejungle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Great-Barrier-Reef.jpeg

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