1. Australia Review Game

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

4. 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

5. 2. Tariff

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

7. 4. disease

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

9. 3. Aust. first settlers came from Asia

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

11. 2. Investing in GDP

12. 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

13. 1. Utilizing nations OWN resources to help economy

14. 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

15. 4 It was a remote island

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

17. 2. False, TIMBER is the main resource

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

19. 3. Outback

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

21. 2. prisoners

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

23. 1. farmers

24. 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

25. 3 The low sea levels exposed the land providing a place to live

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

27. 4. Coral Sea

28. 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

29. 2. They were dying of disease

30. 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

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

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

33. 4. overfishing

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

35. 2. Head of State

36. 2 houses in the legislature is:
Bicameral
Bilingual
Bilegislatre
Bi-casas

37. 1. Bicameral

38. 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

39. 3. someone who takes a risk to start a business

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

41. 3. mixed

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

43. 2. building universities

44. 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

45. 4 Concerns for the environment

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

47. 2. Capital

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

49. 3. human

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

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

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

53. 2. The survival of ecosystem

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

55. 3. education

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

57. 3 Great Barrier Reef

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

59. 2. Coral Sea

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

61. 4. Ayers Rock

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

63. 1. Great Victoria Desert