NZ Earthquake and all 1.6 Questions

Earthquake
a. the reason that the earthquake occurred was  because new zealand is right on the middle of a fault line.
b. the earthquake occurred on the south island of new zealand, mainly contained in Christchurch.
c. the casualties are about at 123 deaths, 200 people missing and this number is expected to rise this weekend. no other people are expected to be found alive.
d. as you can see from this picture, there was extreme damage to many of the buildings, the cathedral, the AFX building, just completely squished. many building have been completely flattened.
e. current concerns is that they will not be able to find the people trapped inside buildings which have collapsed, and they also think they will not find any more survivors.
f. i believe that this earthquake is much worse than the September earthquake and possible ever because unlike other past earthquakes in Christchurch, the earthquake was only 5km under the ground, but in other cases it was approx. 35km. this is horrific and will be extremely hard to continue after this.


1.6 Questions
1. climate is the pattern of weather.
2. the closer to the equator, the hotter the climate becomes.
3. summer weather: low pressure in the north, high pressure in the south
winter weather: high pressure in the south, low pressure in the north
4. currents from nearer the poles bring cooler conditions and those from the nearer the Equator bring warmer conditions.
5. the influence or relief of the climate is that the colder the climate is, the average temperature is lower than if it would be warmer.
6a. knowing if they will be able to plant crops or if they cant due to a drought, saving them money.
6b. for tourists thinking of coming to say Queensland, they would check the climate statistics to make sure that they wouldnt go during a possible flooding or cyclone season.
7. due to the different climates around Australia, it can change the types of foods that we are going to be having because of the climate, if it is going to be extremely hot then we wouldnt have some foods because they cant be harvested.
8a. darwin: 30 degrees, 50mm.  hobart: 20 degrees, 150 mm.
8b. they could easily be different, not what the climate average is saying, but it would most likely be around that temperature.
9a. alice springs
9b. Melbourne

1.4 questions 1-10

1. the movement of the Earth's continents in a process is known as continental drift.
2. convention currents in the earth's interior is associated with plate movement.
3. Gondwana.
4. about 750 million years ago.
5. india, Australian, west africa, east antarctica.
6. north (5 centimeters per year)
7. less than one million years old.
8. water
9. the branch of Geography that is involved with the study of landforms is called geomorphology.
10. a geomorphologist studies landforms and determines the process that form and transform them.

Australias large coastline and EEZ advantages and disadvantages

Advantages
- lots of beaches for civilian enjoyment.
-tourism
- able to have shipping access.
- nice environment (views)
-  no crowded beaches.

Disadvantages
- hard to maintain good standard.
- large coastline means a large distance to travel there.
- easier for countries to attack.
- tropical disasters, more vulnerable.

Advantages of a large EEZ
- tourism
- allows more places available, more land.
- allows power for other places around the world.
- more forces

Disadvantages of a large EEZ
- a more likely chance that tsunamis or natural disasters could occur.
- harder to travel
- more able to be attacked from other armies.

Australias major landforms 1.5

1. Western plateau , central lowlands and the eastern highlands.
2.north of canberra
3. they are very old and they have been subjected to erosion over millions of years.
4. northern territory. 335km south west of alice springs.
5. uluru, (also knwon as ayers rock is the second largest monolith in the world. measuring at 9.4 kilometers around the base. the aboriginie people believe that there were many mothers who were the milky way and they were all carrying babies. then one of them accidently drops her baby, and he falls in his brown cradle and froms uluru.
6. the suns rays pass the atmosphere.
7.  an area of land that is drained by a river and iuts tributaries.
8. the murray darling basin and the lake eyre basin.
9. the murray, the darling and the murrumbidgee
10. most of the water is lost through evaprotaion.
11.  it is the oldest river bed in the world. it only flows 3 days a year.
12.  ever since the battle to save franklin rescued it from damming for hydro electric power.
13. the high court of australia 1983 that gave the commonwealth power of he states.
14. i believe that the murray darling river water should be controlled by the government, as of now this is not the case and i dont think that this should be what should happen because the current people are not going to work this current situation out.
15.
a. the western plain mainly contains a large amount of desert area and the great sandy plain as well as the nullabor plain.this area of land is not high or low, in the middle.
the central lowlands is quite a low lying area of land,  mainly consisting of deserts.
the eastern highlands are higher although they are also in the top of queensland.
d. the great sandy desert goes up to 983 metres tall.  the great victoria desert is 1440 metres tall. the tanami desert 433 metres high.
16. the following are in the lake eyre basin- finke, innaminka, birdsville.

Vocab

batholith- a very large irregular-shaped mass of igneous rock, esp granite, formed from an intrusion of magma at great depth, esp one exposed after erosion of less resistant overlying rocks
catchment- the act of catching water.
Dreamtime - the ancient time  of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
epicormic - applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.
Exclusive Economic Zone - the coastal water and sea bed around a country's shores, to which it claims exclusive rights for fishing, oil exploration, fishing, etc
geomorphologist - the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
hemisphere - half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided. Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
isobarthe - an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
latitude - the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point.
lignotubers - a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
longitude - angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
lunette - any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.
mallee - any of various dwarf Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus dumosa  and E. oleosa,  that sometimes form large tracts of brushwood.
metamorphic - pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
sclerophyll - a woody plant with small leathery evergreen leaves that is the dominant plant form in certain hot dry areas, esp the Mediterranean region
sedimentary - of, pertaining to, or of the nature of sediment.
tectonic forces - the science or art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction; the constructive arts in general.
watershed - an important point of division or transition between two phases, conditions,
xerophyte - a plant adapted for growth under dry conditions.
population density - the number of people living per unit of an area
continental drift - the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates.
convection currents - the transfer of heat by the mass movement of heated particles into an area of cooler fluid
glaciation - to cover with ice or glaciers.
Central Lowlands - a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.

Eastern Highlands - a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia
Western Plateau - originally a facetious counterpart to Southern blot
El Nino - a warm ocean current of variable intensity that develops after late December along the coast of Ecuador and Peru and sometimes causes catastrophic weather conditions.

La Nina - A cooling of the surface water of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, occurring somewhat less frequently than El Niño events but causing similar, generally opposite disruptions to global weather patterns.
euclypts - any of numerous often tall trees belonging to the genus Eucalyptus,  of the myrtle family, native to australia and adjacent islands, having aromatic evergreen leaves that are the source of medicinal oils and heavy wood used as timber.
biodiversity - the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species in their natural environments, which is the aim of conservationists concerned about the indiscriminate destruction of rainforests and other habitats

fauna - the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.
flora - the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
montoremes - a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
diprotodon - a large extinct marsupial of the Australian genus Diprotodon
megafauna - land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
thylacine - a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus,  of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
epicormic - Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.
transpiration - an action or instance of transpiring.

 acidification - to make or become acid;  convert into an acid.
aquaculture - The science of cultivating marine or freshwater food fish, such as salmon and trout, or shellfish, such as oysters and clams, under controlled conditions.
non-renewable - Relating to a natural resource, such as solar energy, water, or wood, that is never used up or that can be replaced by new growth.
salinity - of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
silviculture - the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
sustainable - capable of being sustained
World Heritage - something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion: a heritage of poverty and suffering; a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.