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WorksheetsAustralia Test. Yes it is a grade.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
1. Which is correct about this map?
The circle is the Pacific Ocean; the triangle is the Indian Ocean; the square is the Great Barrier Reef.
The triangle is the Great Dividing Range; the square is the Indian Ocean; the circle is the Pacific.
The circle is the Indian Ocean; the triangle is the Great Barrier Reef; the square is the Pacific Ocean.
The triangle is the Coral Sea; the circle is the Pacific Ocean; the square is the Indian Ocean.
Because Australia is ______ of the equator, the climate of Australia is warmer in the ________.
south; south
north; south
north; north
south; north
Which is true about Australia?
It is an island; it is a continent; it is a country.
It is a colony of Great Britain; it is an island; it is a continent.
It is an island; it is a country; it is considered part of Asia.
It is a continent; it is a country; it is not considered an island
Which is correct about this map?
The dotted line represents the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest living organism.
The dotted line represents the Great Dividing Range, a chain of mountains 2000 miles long.
The dotted line represents the Great Victoria Desert, the seventh-largest desert on earth.
The dotted line represents the Great Ayers Rock, a limestone formation on the Pacific coast.
What is at the triangle?
Uluru, a giant limestone rock associated with the spirit world for the Taino people.
Uluru, also called the Outback, a huge flat area of dry grasses and eucalyptus trees
Uluru, a rock sacred to Aboriginal people because of its connection to the Dreamtime.
Uluru, the largest city in Australia and the center of sheep-herding and mining activity
Australia warmly encourages entrepreneurs. The government does not own major parts of the economy. But the government does have strict rules for the safety of consumers and workers. Which letter places Australia on this continuum?
A
B
C
D
In Australia, only 0.1% of the land is used to grow crops like wheat. Yet Australia is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of wheat. How can we explain this?
Australia is three million square miles. It’s so huge that 0.1% of the land is still the size of Brazil.
Australia has a small demand for wheat because it has a small population, so it can export the surplus
Australia is eager to produce food, especially in the warm climate of the south. It exports the surplus.
Australia is careful to conserve water so that even the dry Outback can be used to produce wheat.
The British sea-captain James Cook explored the island that became known as Australia in 1768. He reported back to King George III that there was a perfect harbor and that the land would make a wonderful colony--even thought it was 10,000 miles away. But King George already had thirteen wonderful colonies across the Atlantic only 3000 miles away. Then what?
Britain ignored this ideal land, and it was not colonized until 1804. New South Wales was given the name “Australia,” which means “southern” in Latin.
After the American Revolution, 1776-1783, Britain lost its thirteen Atlantic colonies, so it turned to colonize this distant land in 1788.
Captain Cook continued his exploration of the rest of the South Pacific, and the Aboriginal people of the land continued to inhabit this land.
In 1767 King George gave Captain Cook the right to stay on this land, establish a colony, and share property rights with Aboriginal people.
How are Canada and Australia similar? One box is entirely correct; the other three have errors.
box A
box B
box C
box Z
Malcolm Turnbull, at left, was the chief executive of Australia from 2015 to 2018. Scott Morrison, right, is the current chief executive. Morrison has said that the constitutional monarchy is one of the great traditions of Australia. Turnbull disagrees with him about everything. What does Turnbull probably think?
Turnbull probably thinks that if he gets another chance to be president, he will lead the effort to make Australia a republic.
Turnbull probably thinks that the monarchy is important because it celebrates the Aboriginal culture and history of Australia.
Turnbull probably thinks that when Australia finally earns independence from Britain, it will at last become a republic.
Turnbull probably thinks that a diverse country like Australia should disconnect from the British monarchy and become a republic.
Which is true?
Since Australia is a parliamentary democracy, the voters elected Scott Morrison as the new prime minister.
Since Australia is a parliamentary democracy, voters elected Scott Morrison prime minister and he chose the legislators.
Since Australia is a parliamentary democracy, the voters elected the legislators, and the legislators chose Scott Morrison.
Since Australia is a parliamentary democracy, Scott Morrison was chosen by the prime minister to be the chief executive.
Which box completes these sentences?
Before the arrival of British colonists, the ______ people of Australia had a _________ economy. They produced what they consumed, and they honored old cultural practices.
Today they use art, music, and dance to connect to the ______, when the spirit world created the human world. A giant sandstone rock formation in the center of the continent, which the Anangu people call _______, is connected to this belief system. Around 250 different ________ were spoken by the first residents of Australia.
prisoners
mixed
monarchy
Ayers Rock
states
Aboriginal
traditional
Dreamtime
Uluru
languages
Taino
communist
colonial
Dreamtime
stories
white
market
boomerang
Outback
half-castes
An official Australian government policy in the first half of the 1900’s removed thousands of children from their homes. These children, who were of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage, were being raised in Aboriginal communities. The government sought to provide greater opportunities for them by raising them in English-speaking institutions and training them for careers as servants. What did the government call them as children? What did they call themselves as adults?
Anungu; Pitjantjatjara
Aborigines; Half-Castes
Half-Breeds; Anungu
Half-Castes; Stolen Generations
You are photographing a performance at a museum of traditional Anangu culture near Uluru. What is happening?
An Aboriginal man is playing a didgeridoo.
An Aboriginal man is using a boomerang.
An Aboriginal man is calling a kangaroo.
An Aboriginal man is hunting a wallaby
Paintings by traditional Aboriginal artists are admired all over the world, and they often sell for high prices to Australian collectors. What if Australian art collectors became interested in paintings by traditional artists from Kenya, a country across the Indian Ocean in east Africa? What could the Australian government do?
The Australian government could slap an embargo on Kenya. This would stop all trade with Kenya until they promised to stop making traditional paintings. Then Australian consumers would buy Aboriginal paintings.
The Australian government could colonize Kenya. This would force Kenya to provide raw materials that could be manufactured into Aboriginal paintings.
The Australian government could slap a tariff on Kenyan paintings. This would raise the price of Kenyan paintings and encourage Australian consumers to buy Aboriginal paintings.
The Australian government could establish a free-trade agreement with Kenya. This would decrease the number of Kenyan paintings coming into Australia and at the same time raise the prices of Kenyan paintings.
The life expectancy of Australia is 82 years. For Aboriginal people in Australia, the life expectancy is 70 years. What could explain this difference?
Many Aboriginal people do not live as long as Australians of European origin, so their life expectancies are twelve years shorter.
Many Aboriginal people live in isolated communities on reserved land and they do not have access to quality health care.
Many Aboriginal people living in Australia today still use stone tools, so they have no contact with the health care in the modern world.
Many Aboriginal people die at younger ages than Australians whose ancestors were British prisoners, so their life expectancy is shorter.
Why do most Australians live in cities on the southeast coast?
The entire Outback region, 98% of the land, has been reserved for Aboriginal people, and Aboriginal people are 3% of the population.
Around 70% of the country is hot and dry, receiving less than 20 inches of rain per year. The climate on the southeast coast is pleasant.
Around 85% of Australians live in cities, and Sydney, on the southwest coast, is the largest city in the continent of Australia.
To protect the Great Barrier Reef, scuba diving and fishing are not allowed on the northwest coast, but they are on the southeast.
Why is the flag of the United Kingdom on the Australian flag?
Australia was once a British colony.
Australia is still a British colony.
English is Australia’s official language.
Ayers Rock is the British name for Uluru.
The per capita GDP of the United Kingdom is $44,300. The per capita GDP of its former colony Australia is $50,400. The United Kingdom is trying to leave the European Union. One of the reasons is that the UK is worried that trade is causing its workers to lose their jobs to EU competition. Australia is open to trade--especially with its Asian neighbors with their huge populations. What do these two per capita GDP statistics tell us?
More successful economies are often more open to trade
Protecting jobs from free trade often helps economies succeed
Former colonies often continue to struggle, while the homeland succeeds
Higher per capita GDP often causes trade to decrease, even with barriers
Other groups like the Jews, Native Americans, Freed slaves of African descent have not acknowledgment or reparations from the crimes committed against them. Today, these groups of people, like the Aboriginals, are less privileged, receive more discrimination, and have less access to resources, and are unequally represented in government and other positions of power.
Australia is a very diverse and modernize country. It's government is progressive and reflective. The Australian government _____to____ in _____ for _______ . However the native people still have a lower _____ and ____
apologized
Indigenous
2018
their pain and suffering caused by the Spanish
apologized
Australians
2001
the pain and suffering caused by
apologized
Indians
2019
their pain and suffering
apologized
Aboriginals
2008
their pain and suffering caused by Europeans
