questions 1.5 Australia's Major Landforms

1) What are the three main land regions in Australia?
The western plateau, the central lowlands and the eastern highlands
2) Where are the Australian alps?
The Australian Alps stretch from the brindabella range north of Canberra to the Baw Baw range east of Melbourne 
3) Why are the mountains in the Australian Alps rounded in shape?
they have been subjected to erosion and weathering
4) Where is Uluru
Uluru is located 335 kilometers south-west of Alice springs  in the Uluru-Kata tjuta National Park.
5) Write a detailed description of uluru
Uluru is the second largest monolith in the world. measuring 9.4 kilometers around the base and extending for several kilometers underground
6) Explain why uluru appears to change colour
this is due to the way in which the sun's rays pass through the atmosphere
7) what is a drainage basin?
is an area of land that is drained by a river and its tributaries
8) Name the two largest drainage basins in Australia
Murray darling basin and the lake eyre basin
9) Which are the three longest rivers in Australia
Murray, the darling and the Murrumbidgee
10) Where does all the water in the Lake Eyre Basin go
Simpson Deset
11) What is unusual about the finke river
in only flows on a few days each year
12) Where is the franklin river and why has it become synonymous with conservation?
the river flows for 125 kilometers from the cheyne range to the gordon river in what is now the tasmanian wilderness. It has become that because ever since the battle to save the Franklin rescued it from damming for hydro-electric power in the 1980's
13) what court ruling eventually saved the franklin
the campaign by the Tasmanian wilderness society