What are the Climatic Regions of Australia?

Answer 1

If you mean geographic and climatic regions, then Australia covers a wide range of diverse areas. There are desert, alpine, tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, and Mediterranean-style areas throughout the nation.

If the question refers to the states and territories of Australia:

Australia has 6 states:

1.Queensland

2. New South Wales

3. Victoria

4. South Australia

5. Western Australia

6. Tasmania

and two mainland territories:

1. Australian Capital Territory

2. Northern Territory

There is a mistaken belief that Jervis Bay, which is the seaport for the ACT is a separate territory. It is not separate, as it is part of the ACT.

There are also seven external (offshore) territories:

1. The Australian Antarctic Territory (in Antarctica)

2. Coral Seas Territory or Islands, which are a group of uninhabited islands in the Coral Sea, northeast of Australia

3. Norfolk Island, which is in the Pacific Island off Australia's east coast, between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia

4. Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands - these islands are sub-Antarctic, positioned in the Indian ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica

5. Territory of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island, which are in the Indian Ocean in southwest Asia, halfway between northwestern Australia and Timor island

6. Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which is in the Indian Ocean, about half way between Australia and Sri Lanka.

7. Territory of Christmas Island, which is in the Indian Ocean, about 2600 kilometres northwest of Perth

Answer 2

Arid, Semi-Arid, Mediteranean, Tropical Maritime, Temperate Maritime, Tropical Savannah, Temperate Alpine Arid, Semi-Arid, Mediteranean, Tropical Maritime, Temperate Maritime, Tropical Savannah, Temperate Alpine

Answer 3

Australia is located in both the South-East Asian region and the Asia-Pacific region. Australia shares the marine territorial boundaries with Indonesia, which is its largest neighboring country.

Answer 4

New England Table: · Relatively rugged upland, situation between Eastern Highlands, south of NSW northern border. · Formed when a broad granite intrusion thrust up layers of sedimentary rock, forming a folded landscape overlain by thick lava flow. · A later uplift along numerous fault lines further raised the tableland along the seaward margin. · Basalt rock= weathered forming fertile red-brown earths suitable for a wide range of agricultural systems. Tasmanian Highlands · Separated by Bass Strait, was uplifted as part of the same process that built the eastern highlands · Western half= rugged and dissected than eastern zone. Due to high rainfalls due to westerly winds causing fluvial erosion. · Step faulting occurred across a broad area of the main plateau area. Causing significant variation in height. · Lava flows and intrusive volcanic created resistant caps of dolerite rock in many parts of the plateau.
CENTRAL LOWLANDS · Situation: between the eastern highlands to the east and Western plateau to the west. It stretches from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Murray River. · The area is termed geosynclines that are dipped downwards as a result of tectonic earth movement. · Land was inundated with sea water in past geologic time. There is evidence that a vast inland sea once covered much of these low-lying zones. · Three drainage: Mentioned below. Carpentaria Lowlands: · Coastal region of alluvial deposition, situated along the southern and eastern shore of the gulf of Carpentaria. · Numerous streams, fed by summer monsoon rains drain into gulf. · 100 elevation · Sedimentary deposits built it. · Soils: clays and sands washed down from the Barkly Tableland and Eastern Highlands. · Flooding. Lake Eyre Basin: · The Lake Eyre Basin is a drainage basin that covers one-sixth of all Australia. It is one of the largest internal drainage systems on Earth, and covers 1,140,000 square kilometres, including much of inland Queensland, large portions of South Australia and the Northern Territory, and a part of western New South Wales · The Lake Eyre basin is mostly flat with extensive areas of sandy and stony deserts. · The basin began to form in the early Tertiary (about 60 million years ago) when south-eastern South Australia started to sink and rivers began to deposit sediment into the large, shallow basin. The basin is still gradually sinking, and still gradually accumulating sediment. · All the riverbeds in this vast, mostly flat, arid and semi-arid area lead inland (not towards the sea) and on those fairly rare occasions when there is sufficient rainfall to make the rivers flow at all, they flow towards Lake Eyre in central South Australia. Murray Darling: · The Murray-Darling Basin covers 1,061,469 square kilometres or approximately one-seventh (14%) of the total area of Australia (7,692,024 square kilometres). · The Basin's most valuable resource is water. The water in the Murray-Darling river system comes from a very small percentage of the Basin area; mainly along the southern and eastern rim. Almost 86% of the vast 'catchment' area contributes very little or no regular run-off to rivers. · The rivers have very low gradients over most of their length, which cause them to flow slowly as they meander across the vast inland plains. · Gently Slopping. Tectonic uplift was gradually and gentle. COASTAL LOWLANDS: · Low lying areas, situated between shore line and the inland high country. · Generally flat undulating. · Width= 200km. taking up 5% of Australia's total mass. Western Coastal Lowlands: · Canning basin- north of Esperance. · Canning basin- built by ancient reefs and marine deposits · Rivers draining the Darling Plateau have built clayey soils from the eroded granite of the Western Plateau. · Southern ocean coastal lowlands are largely floodplains zones that have formed from the erosion of the south west section of the western plateau. · Tectonic activity associated with this area breaking off from the Antarctic's landmass caused the up thrusting of localized ranges and steep granite cliffs in some coastal areas. Eastern Coastal Lowlands: · Discontinuous belt zone extends from the south- eastern shore of Cape York Peninsula, the east coast shore of Bass Strait, and then westward to the SA border. · Between oceans and steeply rising slopes of Eastern Highlands. ·

Answer 5

The three main geographical regions of Australia are:

• Western Plateau - extending from the centre of the continent to the western coast, north and south
• Eastern Highlands - primarily the Great Dividing Range along the eastern seaboard
• Central Lowlands - comprising the Great Artesian basin, the Lake Eyre Basin and the Murray-Darling River system and the many tributaries of the Murray and Darling Rivers

If this question is a reference to Australia's states and territories, and not to its geographical regions, the answer is as follows:

Australia has 6 states:

1.Queensland

2. New South Wales

3. Victoria

4. South Australia

5. Western Australia

6. Tasmania

There are two mainland territories:

1. Australian Capital Territory (this includes Jervis Bay, the sea port for the ACT)

2. Northern Territory

There are also seven external (offshore) territories:

1. The Australian Antarctic Territory (in Antarctica)

2. Coral Seas Territory or Islands, which are a group of uninhabited islands in the Coral Sea, northeast of Australia

3. Norfolk Island, which is in the Pacific Island off Australia's east coast, between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia

4. Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands - these islands are sub-Antarctic, positioned in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica

5. Territory of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island, which are in the Indian Ocean in southwest Asia, halfway between northwestern Australia and Timor island

6. Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which is in the Indian Ocean, about half way between Australia and Sri Lanka.

7. Territory of Christmas Island, which is in the Indian Ocean, about 2600 kilometres northwest of Perth

Answer 6

what do you mean regions?!!? do you mean states and territories? they are Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory.

Answer 7

Oceania.