New Zealand

New Zealand consists of __________ islands.

• two

• four

• six

• eight

The Polynesians who sailed across the vast Pacific and found the Polynesian Islands reached Fiji and Melanesia in 900 ______.

• CE

• AD

• BCE

• ACDC

The Southern Island is ______________________.

• tropical rainforest

• sand dunes and desert

• mountainous

• arctic

The Landscape on the Southern Island is ...

• Very dry and hostile to life

• impassable jungle

• too high in elevation for humans to inhabit

• Lush river valleys and dramatic mountains

The Pacific and the Australian tectonic plates ...

• are far from New Zealand and have no effect on it.

• collide underneath New Zealand- they are the cause of the mountains there

• are moving away from each other in the Pacific

• never cause earthquakes or volcanoes

New Zealand's North Island has many ...

• artesian fountains in the desert

• deep crevasses that prevent cross-country travel

• islands but no large land masses

• volcanoes

New Zealand has about the same land area as ...

• Oregon

• Texas

• Saudi Arabia

• Britain

The North Island is warmer because it is ...

• highly volcanic

• closer to the equator

• less cloudy

• at a lower elevation