Australia Quiz

Australia and the United States were both colonized by which European country?

• France

• Italy

• Spain

• Great Britain

The Great Barrier Reef is located in which sea?

• Caribbean

• Coral

• Mediterranean

• Tasman

Which of the following is located in the Outback of Australia?

• Great Barrier Reef

• Sydney

• Great Victoria Desert

• Canberra

Aborigines are

• the indigenous people of Australia

• the name the natives gave to the first English colonists

• Animals that carry their young in pouches as they mature

• Australian sheep or cattle ranches

From where did the Aborigines enter the Australian continent thousands of years ago?

• New Zealand

• Southeast Asia

• Africa

• Antarctica

Which was an effect of British settlement of Australia?

• Aborigines remained in their homelands

• Many Aborigines became factory workers in order to survive

• Thousands of Aborigines died of small pox and other diseases

• Aborigines were elected to representative positions in the colonial government