Morales Delgado Alejandra Ivette Ingles Intermedio II Horario: 8:00am – 10:00am Australia and New Zealand. Australia is big, 7 686 848 square kilometres. Only five countries in the world; Russia, Canada, the United States, China, and Brazil are larger than...
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Morales Delgado Alejandra Ivette Ingles Intermedio II Horario: 8:00am – 10:00am Australia and New Zealand. Australia is big, 7 686 848 square kilometres. Only five countries in the world; Russia, Canada, the United States, China, and Brazil are larger than Australia. Australia is also low and flat; only 5 per cent of the land is above 600 metres, the highest mountain is Mount Kosciuszko, at 2 228 metres. Australia is hot and dry too. Two-thirds of the country is desert. There are some big rivers but in parts of Australia it sometimes does not rain for years. In the north, half of the year is ‘wet’, and half is ‘dry’. On this side of the world, the seasons are different from the seasons in northern countries; December is in the summer, and June is in the Winter. In all of this enormous country there are only 20 million people, 84 per cent of the people live on just 1 per cent of the land. Australia’s past. The first people in Australia were the Aborigines, who came more than 40,000 year
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