Multiple Choice
The environment of Australia prior to its separation from Antarctica could best be described as
A) glacial, with extensive ice and snow fields.
B) dry with extensive cool deserts.
C) generally dry with conifer forests in the wetter areas.
D) humid with extensive temperate rainforest.
E) fluctuating and so restricting rainforest to small patches of land.
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