Australia Review Game

How does the high literacy rate in Australia affect its economy and enhance the standard of living for its citizens? It has no effect It increases GDP and decreases human capital It increases human capital, GDP, and Standard of living It decreases GDP but increases standard of living

3.It increases human capital, GDP, and Standard of living

Quota Tariff Mountains Embargo Gaining more money from taxes and protecting nation’s businesses from other foreign companies is an example of which trade barrier? Quota Tariff Mountains Embargo

2. Tariff

Which “silent weapon” killed many aborigines Contaminated food Guns Animals Disease

4. disease

Why is Asia influential to Australia? The 2 nations trade Similar weather features Aust. first settlers came from Asia Common currency

3. Aust. first settlers came from Asia

All of the following are examples of human capital EXCEPT: Investing in computers Investing in GDP Investing in education Investing in high-tech jobs

2. Investing in GDP

Plan for energy independence will focus on using sources of energy we already have here in the Australia including oil & natural gas, wind, and solar . This is an example of: Utilizing nations OWN resources to help economy International trading to stimulate jobs and the economy Utilizing nations resources which will hurt the economy

1. Utilizing nations OWN resources to help economy

Why did the British send prisoners to Australia Empty plot of land Lots of housing No where else to put them It was a remote island

4 It was a remote island

TRUE or FALSE: Coffee is one of Australia’s main resource?

2. False, TIMBER is the main resource

A remote location, scarcely populated, where there is little natural resources best describes: Coral Reef Coastal Cities Outback Oceania

3. Outback

Which group of people contributed MOST to the colonization of Australia? 1. doctors 2. prisoners 3. artists 4. Puritans

2. prisoners

Which occupation helps Aust. economy the MOST? Farmers Miners Entreprenuers Factory workers

1. farmers

How did the ice age impact Australia? It offered more fishing to early explorers It provided natives with water and ice cap mountains The low sea levels exposed the land providing a place to live The natives wanted to move from Asia

3 The low sea levels exposed the land providing a place to live

Which major physical feature does the Great Barrier Reef touch? Indian Ocean Darling River Oceania Coral Sea

4. Coral Sea

Why did the population of Aborigines decrease more in the 19th century? The kids were being taken They were dying of disease The tribes were having conflicts The British population mixed with the aborigine population

2. They were dying of disease

Why can’t tourism jobs sustain Aust. Economy? Tourism is seasonal and only happens at certain times in the year Tourism doesn’t attract enough people The places to tour is Aust. are not all that! Tourism is a steady money maker

1. Tourism is seasonal and only happens at certain times in the year

Taking too many fish out of the sea is known as 1. fish depletion 2. fish exile 3. exfishing 4. overfishing

4. overfishing

What is the title of Queen Elizabeth in Aust? Governer Head of State President Prime Minister

2. Head of State

2 houses in the legislature is: Bicameral Bilingual Bilegislatre Bi-casas

1. Bicameral

An entrepreneur is: 1. someone who fails at a business 2. someone who succeeds at a business 3. someone who takes a risk to start a business 4. someone who borrows money

3. someone who takes a risk to start a business

What type of economy does Aust. Have? Market Capitalist Mixed command

3. mixed

Which of the following is an example of investing in human capital? 1. taxing people 2. building universities 3. farming corn 4. installing telephones

2. building universities

destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, ozone depletion, global warming are all examples of: Natural resources Aust. Use of economic goods Challenges for Aust. Farmers Concerns for the environment

4 Concerns for the environment

Technology, machines, services, manufacturing, phones are all example of which type of productive resource/good? Natural Capital Human Capitalism

2. Capital

High-tech job, educated, literacy rate are all examples of which type of productive resource/good? Natural Capital Human Capitalism

3. human

True/False, Tea Production is useful in Aust. Economy?

False! tourism, fishing, and farming are important for Aust. economy

Tree planting will help… The economy The survival of ecosystem The aborigine population Provide more jobs

2. The survival of ecosystem

All of the following are capital goods EXCETPT: 1. assembly lines 2. telephones 3. education 4. Computers

3. education

Northeast Aust. Several fish and organisms live here, in the Coral Sea best describes: Great Victoria Desert Ayers Rock Great Barrier Reef Oceania

3 Great Barrier Reef

Northeast Aust. Home to the Great Barrier Reef, dumps into Pacific Ocean best describes: Great Victoria Desert Coral Sea Great Barrier Reef Oceania

2. Coral Sea

Stretches across central Aust, huge, red boulder best describes: Great Victoria Desert Coral Sea Oceania Ayers Rock

4. Ayers Rock

located in South and Western Australia named after British queen Victoria Great Victoria Desert Coral Sea Oceania Ayers Rock

1. Great Victoria Desert