AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography Autor: Ing. Vladimír Havlík

1. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography Autor:Ing. Vladimír Havlík Autor je výhradním tvůrcem materiálu. Datum vytvoření:20.07.2013 Klíčová slova: AUSTRALIA – location and borders, geography Anotace:prezentace je určena na získání základních znalostí o geografii, klimatu a poloze Austrálie. Ve zpracovaném materiálu jsou také cvičení k procvičení.

2. Způsob využití:určeno pro výklad a procvičení základních znalostí o geografii, klimatu a poloze Austrálie.Tyto znalosti je možno využít u maturity z anglického jazyka na středních školách. Číslo šablony: VY_32_INOVACE_ANJ_17

3. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography LOCATION AND BORDERS Australia • Australia is an insular(ostrovní) continent. It lies south-east offAsia. It covers the area of about 7 700 000 sq. kilometres. Australia is almost as large as the USA. The eastern coast of Australia is washed by the Pacific Ocean and the west coast by the Indian. • Tasmania lies 240 km south. • Nearest is Indonesia, Papua New Guinea in the north. • Fiji is in the east and New Zealand is south-east off Australia.

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5. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography CLIMATE • It´s a very dry continent with little rain (s malýmmnožstvímdeště) and some areas are completely dry. A majority of people lives on the south-east coast. • This continent has the least mountains and it is the driest continent in the whole word. The deserts cover one third of the surface of Australia. • The climate changes according to the altitude(nadmořskévýšky). The coldest weather is in the mountains, in the south-east and in Tasmania. It regularly snows at these places.

6. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography CLIMATE • The weather in the North is hot because it is near the equator(rovník). • The warmest period of the year is in January and February. • In the central and western parts of Australia, there are long periods of dry weather. Sometimes there are floods(povodně) and typhoons(tajfuny) on the north-west and east coasts. GEOGRAPHY • Australia is the smallest, youngest continent, with the lowest population densityand lying in the Southern Hemisphere between the Indian and the Pacific Oceans.

7. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography GEOGRAPHY • It is a lonely continent and it is often said that Australia lies at the edge of the world, divided from other continents by long distances. SURFACE • Nearly half of the continent occupies theGreat Western Plateau on the west, in central part there are also three big deserts - the Great Sandy Desert, the Gibson Desert and the Great Victoria Desert.

8. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography GEOGRAPHY SURFACE • The Central Lowlands are mostly covered by tropic forests and savannah with occasional creeks and rivers which become dry in the dry seasons as well as three large lakes - Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens and Lake Gairdner. • On the north-east coast there is the Great Barrier Reef - it is the largest coral reef(útes) in the world. RIVERS • Many of Australian´s rivers are filled with water only during the rainy season. Also most of Australian´s lakes are dry for months.

9. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography GEOGRAPHY RIVERS • The longest river is the Murray-Darling (Darling = tributary– přítok). Its length is 3780 kilometres. • Most rivers are small and they dry up(vysychají) because there is not enough rain. MOUNTAINS • East part occupies the Great Dividing Range and in the south-east there are the Australian Alps with the highest mountain Mount Kasciusco. Its height is 2230 m.

10. AUSTRALIA– location and borders, climate, geography CVIČENÍ Choose the correct answer(s): 1. The deserts cover ……… of the surface of Australia. • one third • two thirds • the half • two quarters • The warmest period of the year is in …….. and ……… . • February • June • July • January

11. AUSTRALIA – location and borders, climate, geography CVIČENÍ Fill in the gaps with information from the ellipse below the text to get correct statements. You will not use all information there. • The eastern coast of Australia is washed by the ………. and the west coast by the ………. . • This continent has the ………. mountains of all continents. • Nearly half of the continent occupies the ……… . • The highest mountain of Australia is Mount Kasciusco. Its height is above……….. m. Pacific Ocean Australian Alps least Great Dividing Range 3,000 4,000 2,000 Great Western Plateau most Indian Ocean

12. Zpracoval: Ing. Vladimír Havlík Bibliografie: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia Obrázky: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reliefmap_of_Australia.png