Australia/Oceania/Antarctica Review

Australian Outback

• Australia is too geographically remote for any significant animal migration to occur.
• the desert-like Australian countryside far away from cities, where few people live.
• convicts
• An international agreement signed by many countries to protect and manage Antarctica. Aspects of the treaty include control of military activities, waste disposal, mineral exploitation, wildlife conservation and tourism.

Austrailia

• an extremely cold continent of desert at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle
• a 1,250-mile chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral
• Continent, country, and (sometimes considered an) Island.
• English

Ayers Rock

• A region in northwest Oceania
• Percent of Earth's freshwater frozen in Antarctica's ice sheet.
• also known as Uluru; found in southwestern Northern Territory, central Australia, it is a large, red sandstone rock.
• Australia is too geographically remote for any significant animal migration to occur.

Great Barrier Reef

• South America
• An international agreement signed by many countries to protect and manage Antarctica. Aspects of the treaty include control of military activities, waste disposal, mineral exploitation, wildlife conservation and tourism.
• a 1,250-mile chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral
• Percent of Earth's freshwater frozen in Antarctica's ice sheet.

coral bleaching

• the world's largest reserve of underground water; located in central Australia
• South America
• An international agreement signed by many countries to protect and manage Antarctica. Aspects of the treaty include control of military activities, waste disposal, mineral exploitation, wildlife conservation and tourism.
• the loss of color in corals that occurs when stressed corals expel the algae that live in them

Great Artesian Basin

• English
• Continent, country, and (sometimes considered an) Island.
• the world's largest reserve of underground water; located in central Australia
• a 1,250-mile chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral

Canberra

• indigenous people of New Zealand
• Australia's capital
• Continent, country, and (sometimes considered an) Island.
• Percent of Earth's freshwater frozen in Antarctica's ice sheet.

Who did the British first send to Australia as settlers?

• convicts
• An international agreement signed by many countries to protect and manage Antarctica. Aspects of the treaty include control of military activities, waste disposal, mineral exploitation, wildlife conservation and tourism.
• A region in northwest Oceania
• A chain of islands

What was the impact on the native Australians, Aborigines, when the British arrived?

• also known as Uluru; found in southwestern Northern Territory, central Australia, it is a large, red sandstone rock.
• Loss of culture, land, language, etc.
• A region in southwest Oceania
• Australia is too geographically remote for any significant animal migration to occur.

1962

• Aborigines given right to vote in Australia.
• A chain of islands
• the world's largest reserve of underground water; located in central Australia
• the loss of color in corals that occurs when stressed corals expel the algae that live in them