Australia and Pacific Islands

What is most likely to damage the economy of Oceania ?

• population increase

• the discovery of precious metals

• regional pollution and natural disasters

• the cultivation of cash crops

What statement about Polynesia is most accurate ?

• Polynesia is located in the central Pacific.

• Guam is apart of the Polynesian islands.

• Most of the islands in Polynesia are low islands .

• Polynesia contains Ocieanias largest island.

a circular shaped island that has formed from a coral reef

• barrier islands

• continental island

• continental shelf

• Atoll

Native people of Australia

• Chang

• Huns

• Aboriginal people

• ozone

The early Aborigines were

• settled farmers.

• settled herders

• nomadic hunter-gatherers

• nomadic fishermen

Since most of the Pacific’s low islands have poor soil and few mineral or energy resources, they

• have relatively large populations.

• have relatively small populations.

• produce bananas and cacao.

• are mainly urban centers.

In the mid-1800s, what event played a part in the large increase in British immigration to Australia?

• Aborigines moved to the Outback.

• British colonists discovered gold.

• British colonists were allowed to adopt Aboriginal children.

• Captain James Cook described the excellent ranch lands available.

In the early 1900s, who controlled most of the Pacific islands?

• The island nations, which set up independent governments in the Pacific

• France, Spain, Great Britain, Japan, and the U.S., which claimed Pacific colonies

• The descendents of Australia’s prison colony, who conquered the Pacific islands

• The Maori, who spread from New Zealand and the Cook Islands to the rest of the Pacific

A significant aspect of Australia’s environment is that Australia is the...

• driest inhabited continent.

• largest continent in the Pacific.

• planet’s most isolated continent.

• continent with the most animal species

Australia is governed by its parliament and an individual chosen by the parliament, who is known as the ___________

• monarch

• governor

• president

• prime minister