3. Lake Mungo was once an inland freshwater lake. Approximately how many years ago did it dry up? 10000 a. 20000 b. 30000 c. 40000 d. 4. What do the Dreaming stories and the scientific study of the Great Barrier Reef reveal about the changes that came with the end of the last Ice Age? 5. How did the end of the Ice Age change life for the people of the Torres Strait and Tasmania? APPLY AND ANALYSE 6. Compare the landscapes of SOURCES1 and 3 . Suggest ways that the geography of these two locations would have shaped the lives of people living there. 7. Explain how the SOURCE2 description of the archaeological finds on Barrow Island help us to understand the effect of the Holocene climate change. EVALUATE AND COMMUNICATE 8. Think about the connection between the Dreaming stories and the archaeological investigation of the Deep Time locations of Australia. Demonstrate your understanding by creating the front cover of a book with the title From Dreaming to Deep Time. Answers and sample responses for this topic are available online.
LESSON 2.5 Living with the megafauna
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to describe the features of the megafauna and the evidence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ responses to their changing environment.
Tune in You are living during the last stage of the Pleistocene epoch, Ice Age, on the big continent called Sahul. People live in the north on thick ice sheets and big glaciers. They share their land with giant animals like woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed cats and huge ground sloths.
SOURCE1 Life in the Ice Age
1. What challenges would people face living in such a harsh environment? 2. How would Australia change if our own sea levels rose 150 m due to climate change? 3. How did the landscape in the image differ from the current Australian landscape?
TOPIC2 Deep Time to modern era 31
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