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Australia
Cabe McKinney
http://www.mydestinationunknown.com/wpcontent/gallery/inland/Inland-7522.jpg
Atmosphere
• Australia's atmosphere has a massive ozone hole
in it. The hole lets more UV rays in making it
hot.
• The hole is caused by increased and uncontrolled
emissions of methyl chloroform from factories in
Sydney.
The center of the hole is here
• http://t.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/space/1920x1080/Australia.jpg
Atmosphere
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• Due to the hole over Australia the landscape is very dry
and has very little humidity.
• Australia has the highest ratio for skin cancer and over
1200 people die from it each year.
Hydrosphere
• Australia is home to the biggest natural reef called The
Great Barrier Reef which is slowly depleting due to
bioaccumulation.
• Australia's center does not get hardly any rain annually
because of the ozone hole.
• http://www.planetdiary.com/jpeg13/austrain.jpg
Biosphere
• Australia is a warm desert biome.
• Natural resources are oil, diamonds, coal, gold, and
copper.
• Because of that good ol’ ozone hole solar energy is a
major renewable resource.
• Some animals in Australia are crocodiles, koala,
kangaroo, vulture, dingo, and freakin big lizards.
Lithosphere
• Australia has lots of weathered rock formations
• soil diagram with all regions
• Australia has a the Indo-Australian plate that
Causes earthquakes yearly
• Volcanoes in Australia are very rare because
it’s is not on any plate boundaries.
http://www.asris.csiro.au/Images/ASC_map.jpg
Works cited
• https://www.ukessays.com/essays/environmental-sciences/what-causesozone-depletion-in-sydney-australia-environmental-sciences-essay.php
• http://science.jrank.org/pages/663/Australia-Natural-resources.html
• https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/the-nature-of-the-lithospherebeneath-australia-gUo46nog6p
• http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/hazards/volcano/basics/where