1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Physical Geography PeopleHistory Economic Activity Odds & Ends

2. A Major area of hills & Mts. In Australia, where most of the country’s freshwater begins, west of it is a ribbon of grassland, then desert.

3. Great Dividing Range

4. Makes up most of Australia

5. Desert

6. Made up of Coral, it lies off Australia’s North-East Coast.

7. Great Barrier Reef

8. some volcanoes don't reach the surface but, coral formed along the rim of the Volcano—how is this island classified?

9. Coral--atoll

10. The World’s coldest, driest, and windiest Continent.

11. Antarctica

12. The native people of Australia

13. Aboriginies

14. The native people of New Zealand

15. Maori

16. it has no permanent residents

17. Antarctica

18. most countries of Oceania have a ___________ city--a single city that dominates the government, business, & social life of the country.

19. Primate

20. How is the population distributed in Australia?

21. mostly pretty sparse w. a concentration near the coast in Australia.

22. it is believed the earliest settlers of Australia, and parts of Melanesia, went there during the Ice Age by crossing the …

23. Land Bridge

24. 300-1000 A.D.

25. when seafarers settled most of Polynesia.

26. when Westerners conquered, colonized, and settled here. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, Germans, & the U.S.

27. 1500s-1800s

28. 1820

29. When Antarctica was discovered

30. The country took over some of these islands, during the late 1930s and early 1940s, making them the scene of many a bloody World War Two battle.

31. Japan

32. remoteness and lack of education

33. barriers to modernization

34. helping to break down the barriers to modernization

35. technology

36. Australian ranches which can be as large as 6,000 square miles

37. stations

38. New Zealand’s is good, Australia’ is okay, on some of these islands, this is non-existent.

39. transportation system

40. a mixture of European and traditional, as evidenced by Strine

41. lifestyle

42. the U.S. moved the residents to conduct a test of an atom bomb, it is still uninhabitable today

43. Bikini Atoll

44. signed in 1959 makes Antarctica a "continent for science & peace" no one owns it (can anyone mine there?), many countries have research stations there.

45. Antarctic Treaty

46. an agreement that bans oil and gas exploration on Antarctica until 2041.

47. Madrid Protocol

48. mammals whose offspring mature in the mothers pouches— such as kangaroos, koalas, wallables.

49. marsupials

50. The traditional open sided thatched roof hut used in the South Pacific

51. Fale