1. Chapter 34

2. Focus Question
What is ASEAN?

3. Australia Australia is a continent and a country
Add Tasmania, New Zealand and hundreds of smaller islands
Worlds 6th largest country in terms of land
Smallest continent
Population: 19 million
Natives: Aborigines
Europe Colonized Australia
Island Nation
Top 12 Riches nations in the world

4. Australia Climate: Varies from very hot and dry to wet and coastal
Great Barrier Reef
Largest Reef in the world
Forms lagoons
Harsh Wilderness is known as the Outback
Problems with Nature: Typhoons, Floods, Windstorms
Home to the worlds most venomous snakes, spiders, and scorpions

5. New Zealand and the Pacific
1,000 miles Southeast of Australia
Formed from underwater Mountains
Regions: Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia
Volcanoes and Geysers
Climate: Tropical
Agriculture: Fruits and Flowers
Native Population: Maori

6. Antarctica Large Mushroom shaped Continent
Makes up 1/10 the worlds landmass
Only Major landmass in the world without permanent human settlement
There is no trace of Civilization anywhere in Antarctica
Only scientist go to Antarctica for research
Short period of time
Heaviest Continent
Ice weighs the continent down
If the ice all melted the continent would sink into the ocean
Contains 1/3 of the worlds fresh water
In ice caps
Ice sheets

7. Focus Question
What is Geography?