Oceania Review

Oceania is made up of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and

• Ring of fire

• Polynesia

• International Date Line

Aborigines

• Natives of New Zealand

• Natives of Papua New Guinea

• Australia's first peoples

Atoll

• Erupting Volcano

• Ring shaped coral island

• High Island

Endemic Species

• Plants and animals native to a place

• Plants and animals new to a place

• Plants and animals with no predator

Exotic Species

• Animals and plants newly introduced to an area

• Animals and plants native to an area

• Species that will go extinct

Known as the largest coral reef in the world and can be seen from space.

• Great Atoll

• Australian Bight

• Great Barrier Reef

Areas placed under control of another country until independence.

• New Zealand

• Trust territories

• Neutral places

Maori

• Natives of New Zealand

• Natives of Australia

• Natives of Melanesia

Mammals that have pouches

• Marsupial

• Outback

• Matrilineal

Inheriting or determining descent through female line

• Patrilineal

• Matrilineal

• Hereditary