Journey To Oz

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Journey To Oz
Our Journey To Oz

• By
• Hailey Asha

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Our Important Facts About Oz

• About one third of the worlds wool comes from
  Australia.
• Oz is a country and a continent.
• The largest city in Oz is Sydney.
• The three main biomes are desert, grassland, and
  rainforest.
• In Oz one of the largest farms called a station
  is as big as Michigan

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Map and Facts

• One of the most famous landmarks in Australia is
  called Uluru.
• Australia is the smallest continent.
• One of Australias states is an island called
  Tasmania.

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Flag and Facts

• The Union Jack is in the upper left hand corner
  of the flag.
• The small white stars are the Southern Cross
  which can always be seen at night.
• It is called the Commonwealth Blue Ensign.

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Aborigines and Facts

• The aborigines thought that spirits created the
  earth.
• Aborigines have lived in Australia for over
  40,000 years.
• They built shelters out of tree branches.

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Alice Springs

• Alice Springs has a population of 22,000 people.
• Alice Springs has had the most tourists during
  their long hot winter (May to September).
• Alice Springs was settled in 1871.

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Rock Art

• The Aborigines passed down stories thru their
  rock art.
• The Aborigines thought that Mimi spirits painted
  the pictures found on the walls of caves in
  Australia.

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Bark Art

• The Aborigines use eucalyptus tree bark to paint
  on during the rainy seasons.
• The colors that the aborigines use on the Bark
  art are red, yellow, black, brown, and white.

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Dot Art

• Aborigines use dot art to tell about the
  dreamtime stories.
• Dot art is like a map of what happened in a
  story.
• Aborigines use icons and repeated lines and dots
  in there dot art.

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A Cockatoo

• There are many different species of the cockatoo.
• Their colors are white, pink, yellow, gray, and
  black.
• The cockatoo eats grass seeds, berries, and nuts.
• A cockatoo can get about 12 to 15 inches long.

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I hope you have learned a lot about Australia.
Our favorite place that we visited was Alice
Springs. I hope we can visit Oz again some day. I
hope you have learned a lot from our journey to
Oz.