Australia and Nature

How does nature and climate influence Australia and Australian culture?

• What is your image of Australian nature and climate?

• What kind of climate/s and nature does Australia have?

• How does it influence life in Australia? • How is it represented in Australian culture?

How does nature & climate influence Japan and Japanese culture?

What images do you have of nature and climate in Japan?Is your image the same as the reality for all 52 prefectures?How does climate and nature influence life in Japan? How is it represented in Japanese culture?

Rainfall

http://www.peter.unmack.net/biogeog/figures/fig4bw.gif

Rainfall

Elevation map – metres above sea level

http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA11759.gif

Climate zones

Nature: climate zones

• .AustraliaEquatorial Scenery  Cape York

Australia Tropical Zone - Mareeba

Australian desert

Nature:climate zones

[6]Figure 9 Australia subtropical zone

[6]Figure 9 Australia subtropical zone

Natural disasters: floodsDalby, Queensland 2011

http://www.wdrc.qld.gov.au/flood-management

Natural disasters: Drought

http://www.davidmoorephotography.com.au/media/images/colourAustralia/1to10/2.jpg

Natural disasters: Bushfires

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html

Volunteer organizations

Volunteer organizations: history

My Country Dorathea McKellarI love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror -The wide brown land for me!

• Climate zone photos• [1] http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/other/kpn_group.shtml• [2]

http://www.cairns.com.au/visitor-information/destinations/cape-york-&-cooktown-guide.html

• [3] http://www.realestate.com.au/property-residential+land-qld-mareeba-200248393• [4]http://travellingboard.net/countries/land-of-kangaroos-australia/• [5] http://espace.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:138647• [6] http://goaustralia.about.com/od/discoveraustralia/tp/worldheritage.htm• [7] http://www.realestate.com.au/property-farmlet-nsw-merriwa-7430413• [8] http://www.cazr.csiro.au/connect/resources.htm• [9] http://blogs.victas.uca.org.au/mediaroom/?p=3• [10] http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/003212.php• [1] http://www.faorap-apcas.org/australia.html