Australia and Oceania

What is pressurized water that reaches the Earth’s surface?

• Water table well

• Artesian well

• Geyser

• Confined aquifer

What is the term for ring shaped islands that are made up of corral attached to submerged volcanoes?

 

• atoll

• artesian well

• seamount

• high islands

Australia is classified as both a continent and a _______.

• seamount

• country

• city

• peninsula

What is the mountain range that stretches along the East Coast of Australia?

• Great Dividing Range

• Kimberley Range

• Nullarbor Plain

• Outback

What is one of the largest underground reservoirs of water in the world?

• Florida basin

• Great Artesian Basin

• Artesian Water Co.

• Artesian Well Park

What is the primary climate of central Australia?

• Sub-tropical

• desert

• equatorial

• humid sub-continental

Which region contains half the population of the continental areas of Australia and Oceania?

• Polynesia

• Micronesia

• Australasia

• Melanesia

What is one of the least populated countries in the world?

 

• Australia

• New Zealand

• Tuvalu

• Fiji

What are people originally native to Australia are called?

• Australians

• Aborigines

• Australian Indians

• Maori

Which European country settled and colonized Australia in the 1500’s?

• France

• The Netherlands

• England

• Germany