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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is "agriculture"? (choose the BEST answer)
Managing plants & animals for food & resources
Growing plants
Bioengineering
Collecting plants & animals for food
- 2. Multiple Choice
The advantages that Aboriginal agriculture had over European methods were: (choose as many as you want)
Aboriginal methods didn't need extra water
Aboriginal methods didn't need fertilisers
Aboriginal methods didn't need any work
Aboriginal methods didn't harm the environment
Aboriginal methods produced food only Aboriginals could eat
- 3. Multiple Choice
What type of vegetable was grown and harvested by many Aboriginal peoples?
yam
potato
oranges
turnip
- 4. Multiple Choice
After Europeans arrived, a lot of the soft soil carefully managed by Aboriginal peoples over thousands of years was ruined by....
sheep and cattle
ploughing
vandals
wheat and cotton
- 5. Multiple Choice
The trampling and compaction of the soil into a hard layer caused bigger floods, because
the rain ran right off it and into the rivers
the rain was attracted to it
it caused more rain
it made rivers flow backwards
- 6. Multiple Choice
Aboriginal peoples would take seeds from one area and trade or give them away in other areas, causing some types of plant to...
spread across the country
die out
stay in one area
feed the birds
- 7. Multiple Choice
Grain grindstones over 30,000 years old have been discovered in NSW, meaning that the Australian Aboriginals were the world's first...
bakers
butchers
sailors
stonemasons
- 8. Multiple Choice
What animals did many Aboriginal tribes harvest from the Australian Alps at the same time every year?
Bogong moths
kangaroos
emus
bunyips
- 9. Multiple Choice
What did Aboriginals use to clear land and create new forests and hunting grounds?
fire
ploughs
tractors
axes
- 10. Multiple Choice
Some scientists think that the evidence of stone shelters, fireplaces and stone fish traps means that up to 10,000 Aboriginal people lived semi-permanently near..
Brewarrina
Bathurst
Bogong
Brisbane
- 11. Multiple Choice
Aboriginal land management was for a long time not recognised by European settlers because (pick more than one)
Aboriginal methods were very different to anything the Europeans had seen
Europeans thought Aboriginals were just hunters
Europeans wanted the land
Aboriginals kept their methods secret
Aboriginal methods destroyed the land
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