Australia and New Zealand

What group walked across exposed continental shelves to get to Australia?

• The Maori

• The English

• The Aborigines

• The Dutch

The English used Australia as a penal colony to relieve their overcrowded British prisons.

• True

• False

Because so much of the land is dry desert, most Australians live

• near ocean coasts.

• in mountains.

• near rivers.

• near lakes.

Capital of Australia

Australia shares the borderline by land with

• New Zealand

• Tasmania

• the UK

• None

Capital of New Zealand

• Sydney

• Canberra

• Wellington

• New Zealand city

The indigenous people of New Zealand.

• Aborigine

• Clan

• Boomerang

• Maori

Australia is smaller than Canada.

• False
• True

Who landed in 1770 and said that Australia belonged to Britain?

• Dermot Mac Murrough
• Cuhulain
• James Cook
• Robert Emmet

The Opera House is in

• Melbourne
• Adelaide
• Queensland
• Sydney