Vocab ch 10

Pacific islands of volcanic origin whose height enables agriculture to grow and humans to reside on them

• high islands

• scurvy

• John Paton

• Sydney Cove

Pacific coral islands that have little fresh water and few places where humans can live

• low islands

• didgeridoo

• scurvy

• Santa Cruz

Group of Pacific islands that includes Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji

• Melanesia

• Canberra

• didgeridoo

• low islands

A region of Pacific Islands that are small and low; means "tiny islands"

• Micronesia

• James Chalmers

• Polynesia

• low islands

Group of Pacific Islands located between the Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island, and New Zealand; means "many islands"

• Polynesia

• Micronesia

• Melanesia

• high islands

Norwegian explorer who proposed that the first Polynesians came from South America rather than Asia and proved that it was possible to travel in a balsa boat from Peru to the Pacific Island of Tuamoto

• Thor Heyerdahl

• Polynesia

• Santa Cruz

• low islands

Scottish missionary to the islands of the South Pacific

• John Paton

• James Chalmers

• Victoria

• Santa Cruz

Missionary to Papua New Guinea who was killed by the Natives

• James Chalmers

• John Paton

• Micronesia

• Tasmania

Pacific island chain discovered by Alvaro de Mendana

• Solomon Islands

• aborigines

• Victoria

• Polynesia

Attempted settlement by Mendana in the South Pacific islands; means "holy cross"

• Santa Cruz

• Sydney Cove

• Solomon Islands

• James Chalmers