1.5 Australian Landforms

1. Western Plateau, Central Lowlands, Eastern Highlands.
2. The Australian Alps are situated from the Brindabella Range to the Baw Baw Range east of Melbourne.
3. The Australian Alps are rounded in shape because of millions of years of erosion and weathering.
4. Uluru islocated south-west of Alice Springs in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
5. Uluru lies in the Amadeus Basin. It is millions of years old and only exposed becuase of millions of years of eroded, softer rocks, surrounding it. It is the second largest monilith in th world, measuring 9.4 kilometres around the base and extending for several kilometres underground.
6. It glows red at dusk and dawn because of the positioning of the sun, when it has more atmospheric particles to travel through to hit the rock. the sun's rays change colour the more particles it has to go through.
7. A drainage basin is an area of land that is drained away by a river and its tributaries.
8. The Murray-Darling and the Lake Eyre Basins.
9. The Murray, Darling and the Murrumbidgee Rivers.
10. Most of the water dissapeares by evaporation.
11. The Finke River is the oldest river bed in the world and only flows a few days a year.
12. The Franklin River flows from the Cheyne Range to the Gordon River in Tasmania.
13. 'Battle to Save the Franklin'