Across
- 3. - Sacred indigenous animal and staple meat source
- 8. – Plant used as bush medicine by indigenous
- 9. Grub – Large, white, wood-eating insect/ food
- 11. - Australian freshwater crustacean
- 12. – Hemiparasitic plant, berry
- 14. – Insects which carry food to the point their abdomens swell enormously
- 17. – Also known as cyerus, wetland ‘grass- like plant’
- 18. – Known as mountain pepper, in woodlands
- 21. trap – Vast network of weirs, dams and canals to manipulate ‘water snake’ through it
- 22. – Nut, native to Australia
- 26. Plum – Flowering plant native to Australia
- 27. - What did the indigenous use to burn vegetation?
- 28. – Wooden spear, throwing device
- 29. – settler or inhabitant
- 31. stick – Stick made for digging
- 32. – Also called bushfood, native food used as substance by aboriginal
Down
- 1. – Long-established belief or repeated thing
- 2. – Traditional Australian bread known as ‘soda bread’
- 4. – Essential nutrients for human body
- 5. – Traditional aboriginal edible seed
- 6. – Known in some regions as first people
- 7. – Prolonged shortage in water supply
- 10. - Common name for plant form edible tubers (like a potato)
- 13. – Habitat destruction
- 15. – Mechanical agricultural preparation of soil
- 16. – Stingless bee, native to the coast of Australia
- 19. – Regrowth after loss or damage
- 20. – Traditional Australian carrying vessel, woman used to carry water, fruit, nuts etc.
- 23. – Searching for wild food resources
- 24. – Plants used to make medicine
- 25. – Also known as thorn tree, belongs to pea family called Fabaceae. Native to Australia.
- 30. – Tough tissue, tendon or ligament