Australian animals: General, monotremes, marsupials

1. What are the two groups of mammals that exist only in Australia?
2. Why are there many animals in Australia that don't exist in anywhere else in the world?
3. What happened in the 17th and 18th centuries?
4. What are the three monotreme species?
5.  Why are monotremes so strange?
6. What do monotremes' eggs feel like?
7. Where does the platypus live?
8. How long can the platypus stay under water?
9. What does the echidna look like?
10. What do echidnas eat?
11. Where does the echidna carry its eggs?
12. How many different species of marsupials are there?
13. Where does the name ´marsupial´come from?
14. Why do marsupials have pouches?
15. What is a baby kangaroo called?
16. What is a wombat?
17. What is weard about the koala's name in the Aboriginal language?

Animals: birds, reptiles, other animals

1. How many bird species can you find in Australia?
2. How many native birds are there?
3. How much does an emu weigh?
4. How long does the emu incubate its eggs.
5. What is a dingo?
6. Why have they built the Dingo Fence?
7. How many species of snakes are there?
8. What is the most poisonous snake in Australia?
9. How many different lizards are there?
10. How many kinds of crocodile are there?
11. In what kind of places can you find green tree frogs?
12. How long can a goanna become? 

Aboriginals

1. When did the Aboriginals come to Australia from Asia?
2. How many tribes of Aboriginals are there nowadays?
3. What kind of tools did Aboriginals used to use in hunting?
4. What did the Aboriginals' protein-rich diet consist of?
5. What do The Aboriginals believe in?
6. What happened in 1770?
7. Why did a lot of Aboriginals die in the 19th century?
8. What is the Aboriginal name for Aboriginals?
9. What kind of flag do they have?
10. What does the flag mean or tell with the colors?
11. When Australia celebrated its 200th anniversary, what did the Aboriginals mourn for?

Uluru & Great Barrier Reef

1. What is Uluru?
2. Where is Uluru located?
3. What was Uluru called before 1985?
4. What is the greatest attraction in Uluru?
5. Why don´t the Aboriginals go to Uluru?
6. What has caused deaths at Uluru?
7. Why are you not allowed to take any rocks or chunks from Uluru?
8. Why have some tourists returned the rocks or chunks that they took from Uluru?

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9. How old is the Great Barrier Reef?
10. How many coral caves are there at the Great Barrier Reef?
11. How many species of shellfish are there?
12. What islands lie along the Great Barrier Reef?
13. Which subspecies of whale comes to the Great Barrier Reef to breed?
14. What kind of people does the Great Barrier Reef attract?