Australia and Oceania

One way that people living in Oceania have adapted to the environment includes

• hunting large animals
• relying on fishing
• building underground shelters
• using salt water for irrigation of crops
  

Australia’s main cities are located along its coastlines for which of the following reasons?

• it was cheaper to buy along the coast
• the railroads were only built around the coast to avoid dangerous animals in the outback
• the interior is desert or mountainous and there is fishing, water and trading along the coast
• Australians wanted to live close to the surfing

Which of the following would be the best description of the outback?

• dry climate, hot, and with little population
• cold and rainy with many cities
• rainy, hot, and densely populated
• lots of mountains, cold, and little population

The Pacific region is considered dangerous because of what physical environmental processes?

• volcanoes
• tsunamis
• earthquakes
• all of the above

The physical geography of Oceania has most likely causes societies in the region to

• building homes from stone
• become isolated on various islands
• use ocean water for irrigation
• depend on a diet of citrus fruits

How did the physical geography of Southeast Asia contribute to the diversity of culture in the region?

• a vast archipelago of thousands of islands facilitated a global trading network
• a series of tall mountain ranges isolated cultures from one another
• a large grassland plain allowed multiple empires to dominate the region
• a narrow peninsula connected different societies from large land masses

Indonesia sprawls over an area where two huge slabs of rock that make up the earth’s crust meet.  A slab of rock is known as a tectonic

• plate
• monsoons
• monsoons
• socialism

Myanmar’s economic system, known as , _______means that most businesses are owned and run by the government.

• free enterprise/market
• traditional
• command
• mixed

The Philippines tropical and subtropical climates are influenced by seasonal winds called

• delta
• terraced fields
• irrigation
• monsoons

Polynesia gets its name from Greek words meaning many islands.  If nesoi means island, what does the first part of the compound word mean?

• Pacific
• Many
• small
• Hawaiian