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Oceania Unit

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Check off the benefits of the Outback Way

a)

better and faster travel

b)

new jobs

c)

more opportunities for education

d)

deforestation

2.

How were Aboriginal people able to survive in the "Outback"?

a)

They were self-sufficent and lived off of the land and made many materials out of different things

b)

They were helped by the European immigrants who taught them how to sheep farm

c)

Aboriginal people could not survive in the Outback so they moved to the coast

d)

Aboriginal tribes joined together to form a government to address issues

3.

Is "the Outback" in Australia more related to the politics, economics geography or society of Australia?

a)

politics

b)

economics

c)

geography

d)

society

4.

What physical landform is created through the physical process of weathering and erosion?

a)

volcanos

b)

mountains

c)

coral reefs

d)

trees

5.

What is an atoll?

a)

a mountain

b)

low island with corral rings

c)

a set of islands

d)

a canyon

6.

Volcanic activity can create what physical feature?

a)

high islands

b)

coral reefs

c)

trees

d)

fjord

7.

What physical formation is tectonic plate movement responsible for?

a)

coral reefs

b)

glaciers

c)

continental islands

d)

none of these

8.

What environmental issues is Papua New Guinea concerned about due to their physical environment?

a)

deforestation

b)

oil drilling

c)

desertification

d)

melting ice caps iff the coast

9.

Why is sheep farming popular in New Zealand?

a)

the green plains and fair climate

b)

sheeps came from New Zealand

c)

the government gives extra tax breaks to sheep farmers

d)

the mountains and warm climate

10.

Does New Zealand's use of 3 official languages show cultural convergence or cultural divergence?

a)

cultural convergence

b)

cultural divergence

11.

Rugby is played in these countries.

a)

Austillia

b)

New Zealand

c)

Fiji

d)

Papua New Guinea

12.

What are most businesses in areas threatened by rising sea levels doing?

a)

shutting their business down

b)

staying in the same location but changing their business to relate to the sea

c)

move their business

d)

they're staying in the same location as they don't believe sea levels are rising