Year 9: Vocabulary List Unit 1 Australia - A Unique Continent

Geography Vocabulary: Australia - A Unique Continent

batholith
catchment
Dreamtime
epicormic
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
geomorphologist
hemisphere
isobar
lattitude
lignotubers
longitude
lunette
mallee
metamorphic
sclerophyll
sedimentary
tectonic forces
watershed
xerophyte

1.2
population density

1.4
continental drift
convection currents
glaciation

1.5
Central Lowlands
Eastern Highlands
Western Plateau

1.6
El Nino
La Nina
euclypts

1.7
biodiversity
fauna
flora
montoremes

1.8
cresent-shaped dunes
diprotodon
megafauna
thylacine

1.9
epheremals
epicormic
transpiration

1.10
acidification
aquaculture
non-renewable
salinity
silviculture
sustainable
World Heritage