Australia and Oceania

World Geography on level

What is the capital of Australia?

Canberra

What do we call Native Australian people?

Aboriginal

What is the capital of New Zealand

Wellington

Which British sailor is the most well-known explorer of the South Pacific islands?

James Cook

What are the parts of Oceania?

Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia

The majority of the population that came to Australia in the 18th century were

Criminals

How many countries are in Oceania

14

What hemispheres are Australia situated on

Southern and Eastern

What is the name of the sacred mountain for the Aborigines

Uluru

What is the name of the largest island that belongs to the Australian continent territory?

Tasman Island

What is the mane for wild Australian dog

Dingo

Which is the most popular city in Australia

Sydney

Which Season does Christmas take place in Australia and New Zealand

Summer

What is the name of a tool that have been historically used for hunting in Oceania?

Harpoon

What is the longest river in Australia?

Murray-Darling

What are the names of two islands that make New Zealand?

North and South

What is the traditional Aboriginal musical instrument ?

Didgeridoo

Where we can find the Great Barrier Reef?

North East Australia Coast

What is the name given to the Aboriginal children that were taken from their families?

Stolen Generations

The Antarctic Treaty specifies that Antarctica cannot be used for ___.

weapons or military use

What is the largest ethnic group in New Zealand?

British/Irish

What was the result of Aboriginal lawsuits in recent years?

aborigines have gained control over land.

Which two nations battled in Micronesia?

The United States and Japan

What kind of government do Australia and New Zealand have?

Parliamentary Democracy

In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to ___.

Give women the right to vote

The Great Barrier Reef is made of ___.

skeletons of tiny sea animals

What kind of islands were formed by the rising and folding of rock from the ocean floor?

continental islands

What is the greatest reason for the decline in indigenous populations in the region?

European diseases

Back in the 1700s, huge ranches called ___ covered millions of acres in the Australian Outback.

stations

what is a dominion

the territory of a sovereign or government

what is a haka

a traditional Maori war dance

what is strine

Australian English

What is the Great Barrier Reef

World’s largest coral reef, only living thing visible from space

what is the outback

arid/semi-arid region of central Australia

what are the island clusters in Oceania

Micronesia – ‘tiny islands’ *closest to Asia, Melanesia – ‘black islands’, Polynesia –‘many islands’

New Zealand main exports

Dairy and Meat

High islands

tall volcanic

New Zealand’s tallest mountain

Mount Cook

Low islands

ring shaped coral islands

continental islands

large and created because of plate boundary interactions

atolls

low islands that are ring shaped coral reefs

Research done in Australia

climate change, rising sea levels, wildlife, and astronomy

percent of salt world’s fresh water in antarctica

70

Why did people first have an interest in Antarctica

fishing, mining, trade routes

when was Australia settled

1700s

what did James Cook do

mapped out most of Australia and claimed a lot of land for the British

what was the treaty of Waitangi

official British control of New Zealand but promised to protect Māori culture.

what is a commonwealth

country that is historically connected to the British empire, has dominion status today

Map: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, Timor Sea, Mt Cook, Transantarctic Mountains, Great Dividing Range, Great Sandy Desert, Nullarbor Plain