Flashcards and recall.

Try this with Outdoor and Environmental Studies

1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Biological isolation
• Geological stability
• Climatic variation
• Gondwana
• Endemism
• Roughly when did Australia finally separate from Antarctica, and why does it matter environmentally?
• Why are most Australian soils nutrient-poor?
• Give two pieces of evidence that Australia is geologically stable.
• Monotremes
• Why do marsupials dominate Australia's native mammal fauna?
• Australian megafauna
• Sclerophyll vegetation
• Epicormic buds
• Lignotuber
• Serotiny
• El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
• El Nino
• La Nina
• Aridification of Australia
• What happened to Australian environments during the Last Glacial Maximum?
• How did post-glacial sea level rise reshape Australia's coastline?
• Why did biological isolation leave Australian species so vulnerable to species introduced after 1788?
• Country
• Custodianship
• Traditional Owners
• How long have Indigenous peoples lived in Australia, and what evidence supports this?
• Songlines
• Totem
• How did Victorian Indigenous communities use fire to manage Country before colonisation?
• Budj Bim
• Gunditjmara
• Kulin Nation
• How did Indigenous seasonal calendars differ from the European four-season model?
• What does reciprocity mean in Indigenous relationships with Country?
• Name three land management practices used by Indigenous peoples in Victoria before European colonisation.
• terra nullius
• Dispossession
• How did European colonisation change Kulin Nation peoples' relationships with their Country after 1835?
• Aborigines Protection Act 1869 (Vic)
• Coranderrk