"savannahs" - 1 õppematerjal

Topic – Australia

Some places like Uluru, were sacred because they were associate with the ,,dreamtime", the time when the Earth was formed and cycles of life and nature were begun. There were more than 600 tribes who spoke different dialects. The arrival of white people gradually brought an end to the traditional Aboriginal way of life. Nowadays there are about half a million aborigines living in Australia. 9 . Plants The west of the continent give place to savannahs and further west the trees disappear and give place to bushlands. The real desert occupies the center of the Western Plateau. In the very southwest there are thin forests of evergreen trees. Most of the Australian trees are various kinds of eucalyptus and accacia. Some eucalyptuses are small bushes in the semideserts, some are the main trees in the savannah but the biggest grow as tall as a hundred metres and form forests in the east. Eucalyptus trees give people timber