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Australia/New Zealand/Antarctica Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One of Australia's best-known landforms

a)

Outback

b)

Grand Canyon

c)

Uluru

d)

Kangaroo Hill

2.

World's largest coral reef

a)

Oceania Barrier Reef

b)

Australia Barrier Reef

c)

Red Sea Barrier Reef

d)

Great Barrier Reef

3.

New Zealand is made up of

a)

East Island and West Island

b)

North Island and South Island

c)

New Zealand and Old Zealand

d)

Left Rock and Right Rock

4.

Key feature of Southern Island

a)

Southern Alps

b)

Southern Hills

c)

Lower Kingdom

d)

Land Down Under

5.

New Zealand has what type of climate?

a)

Ocean Breeze

b)

Inland

c)

Coastal

d)

Marine

6.

First humans in Australia

a)

Explorers

b)

Natives

c)

Aborigines

d)

Eskimos

7.

New Zealand's first settlers

a)

Maori

b)

Irish

c)

Zealander

d)

Polynesia

8.

Australia and New Zealand both gained independence in

a)

the early 1900's

b)

the early 2000's

c)

the late 1700's

d)

they never gained independence

9.

Australia's two largest cities

a)

Perth and Brisbane

b)

Canberra Darwin

c)

Sydney and Melbourne

d)

Newcastle and Geelong

10.

Two kinds of islands in the Pacific

a)

High and Low

b)

Wet and Dry

c)

Pacific and Oceanic

d)

Tidal and Barrier

11.

Small, ring-shaped coral islands surrounding lagoons

a)

reefs

b)

atolls

c)

beaches

d)

natural

12.

Ice covers over how much of Antarctica?

a)

100%

b)

50%

c)

25%

d)

98%

13.

What is an Ice Shelf?

a)

A pit stop for hikers and campers

b)

a frozen lake

c)

where penguins sleep

d)

a ledge over the water

14.

Floating masses of ice that break off from ice shelves are called

a)

icecaps

b)

glaciers

c)

icebergs

d)

dry ice

15.

Antarctica was first sighted in what year?

a)

1775

b)

1885

c)

1907

d)

1953

16.

Antarctica is the only continent

a)

with no water source

b)

with no airports

c)

with 25 days of sunlight

d)

with no permanent human population

17.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Australian Ocean

b)

Tasman Sea

c)

Coral Sea

d)

Atlantic Ocean

18.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Great Australian Bight

b)

Great Barrier Reef

c)

Gulf of Australia

d)

Tasman Sea

19.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Coral Sea

b)

Tasman Sea

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Great Barrier Reef

20.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Lake Eyre

b)

Lake Darling

c)

Lake Murray

d)

Lake Simpson

21.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Great Dividing Range

b)

Southern Alps

c)

Great Victoria Desert

d)

Outback

22.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Eastern Highlands

b)

Simpson Desert

c)

Outback

d)

Great Sandy Desert

23.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Great Northern Front

b)

Southern Alps

c)

Australian Desert

d)

Outback

24.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Han River

b)

Murray River

c)

Darling River

d)

Victoria River

25.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Darling River

b)

Eyre River

c)

Southern River

d)

Murray river

26.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Eastern Highlands

b)

Great Dividing Range

c)

Southern Alps

d)

Outback

27.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Eastern Highlands

b)

Simpson Desert

c)

Great Victoria Desert

d)

Great Sandy Desert

28.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Ronne Ice Shelf

b)

Southern Ocean

c)

Ross Ice Shelf

d)

Ross Sea

29.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Arabian Peninsula

b)

Antarctic Peninsula

c)

Ronne Ice Shelf

d)

West Antarctica

30.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Ross Ice Shelf

b)

West Antarctica

c)

Antarctic Peninsula

d)

Ronne Ice Shelf

31.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Ross Sea

b)

Weddell Sea

c)

Arctic Sea

d)

Southern Ocean

32.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Weddell Sea

b)

Ross Sea

c)

Southern Ocean

d)

Arctic Sea

33.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

West Antarctica

b)

Antarctic Circle

c)

East Antarctica

d)

Lake Antarctica

34.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Ross Ice Shelf

b)

Mount Penguin

c)

East Antarctica

d)

West Antarctica

35.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

Weddell Sea

b)

Southern Ocean

c)

Ross Sea

d)

Arctic Ocean