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WorksheetsAustralia and New Zealand
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Australia's largely dry desert land forces a reliance on
mineral resources
trade
tourism
Which sit on the rims of underwater volcanoes?
Atolls
Caldera
Lagoons
Australia's isolation for thousands of years has resulted in
a unique plant and animal life.
a hidden race of super humans.
little life surviving on the continent.
What group walked across exposed continental shelves to get to Australia?
The Maori
The English
The Aborigines
The Dutch
A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh food or water.
Pilgrim
Colonizer
Indigenous person
Nomad
The English used Australia as a penal colony to relieve their overcrowded British prisons.
True
False
After settlement, the English raised sheep for cotton in Australia.
True
False
The British found and mined gold in Australia.
True
False
Because so much of the land is dry desert, most Australians live
near ocean coasts.
in mountains.
near rivers.
near lakes.
The Stolen Generation of Australia were
Aboriginal children forced to attend English schools and foster homes.
disillusioned American artists.
enslaved Aborigines forced to work on plantations.
Though they faced many hardships after colonization, the Aborigine and Maori were granted full citizenship of Australia and New Zealand in the 1800s.
True
False
The colonization of North American natives and Australian and New Zealand natives both resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
conflict.
death.
stolen land.
equal rights.
For the kidnapping in forced schooling of Aboriginal children, what did Australian PM Kevin Rudd do in 2008?
He publicly apologized.
He returned the children to their families.
He resigned.
Australian ranches are huge because
Australia's climate is mostly dry desert.
everything's bigger in Australia.
the animals are bigger.
faming is the leading industry in Australia.
An example of an invasive species to Australia is
the introduction of 24 European rabbits.
the prickly pear.
the large marsupials.
the kangaroo.
Who or what spread most of the invasive species to Australia?
Storms
The English settlers
Climate change
Marsupials
