WorksheetsCh 10 Oceania
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
Who was the explorer who named the Solomon Islands?
Alvaro de Mendaña
Abel Tasman
James Cook
Arthur Phillip
Who discovered New Zealand?
Abel Tasman
James Cook
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Thor Heyerdahl
Who claimed Tahiti for France?
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Arthur Phillip
James Chalmers
John Paton
Who was the first governor of Australia?
Arthur Phillip
Gregory Blaxland
Pedro Fernandez de Quirós
Kamehameha the Great
Who found a passage through the Great Dividing Range?
Gregory Blaxland
James Cook
Alvaro de Mendaña
King Tupou I
Who was the missionary to Papua New Guinea?
James Chalmers
John Paton
Thor Heyerdahl
Queen Keopuolani
Who discovered the Hawaiian Islands?
James Cook
Abel Tasman
Arthur Phillip
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Who proved it was possible to travel from Peru to the Pacific islands?
Thor Heyerdahl
Pedro Fernandez de Quirós
Kamehameha the Great
James Chalmers
Who was the missionary to the islands of Tanna and Aniwa?
John Paton
James Chalmers
Arthur Phillip
King Tupou I
Who was the mother of the second king of Hawaii?
Queen Keopuolani
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Victoria
Queen Liliuokalani
Who was the Christian king of Tonga?
King Tupou I
Kamehameha the Great
Arthur Phillip
James Cook
Who took Spanish survivors from the Santa Cruz Islands to the Philippines?
Pedro Fernandez de Quirós
Alvaro de Mendaña
Abel Tasman
Gregory Blaxland
Who fought for fifteen years to unify his island group by force?
Kamehameha the Great
King Tupou I
James Chalmers
Thor Heyerdahl
This explorer claimed Tahiti for France.
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
James Cook
Pedro Fernández de Quirós
Abel Tasman
Captain James Cook explored for which country?
Great Britain
The Netherlands
France
Spain
The indigenous tribe called the ______ already occupied New Zealand when the Europeans came.
Maoris
Inuits
Aborigines
Zulus
An aboriginal Australian musical instrument made of hollowed-out eucalyptus wood.
Didgeridoo
Boomerang
Clarinet
Kapu
Australian hunting stick that returns to the thrower.
Boomerang
Didgeridoo
Kapu
Marn Grook
She was overthrown as queen of Hawaii.
Queen Liliʻuokalani
Queen Keopuolani
Queen Kaʻahumanu
Queen Jezebel
She was the favorite wife of Kamehameha the Great and led the destruction of the old religion.
Queen Keopuolani
Queen Lili'uokalani
Queen Ka'ahumanu
Queen of Sheba
Which of the following is not a characteristic of low islands?
little rainfall
suffer great damage from tropical storms and high waves
good soil for agriculture
People living there were dependent on fishing as a food source.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of high islands?
composed of volcanic mountains and volcanic debris
suitable for settlement and agriculture
locations where explorers were likely to find supplies
lack of good drinking water
Which of the following was discovered by the Spanish?
New Zealand
Tahiti
Solomon Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Which of the following was discovered by Captain Cook?
Tahiti
New South Wales
New Zealand
Tasmania
Which of the following was not true of Dutch exploration?
The Dutch East India Company suppressed findings.
Parts of the western coastline of Australia were mapped out.
The Dutch lacked the money and manpower to colonize.
Maoris helped the Dutch explorers.
Who found a passage through the Great Dividing Range?
Gregory Blaxland
James Cook
Thor Heyerdahl
Alvaro de Mendaña
Who was the first governor of Australia?
Gregory Blaxland
James Cook
Arthur Phillip
Pedro Fernández de Quirós
On what group of islands was James Cook killed?
Falkland Islands
Hawaiian Islands
New Zealand
Philippine Islands
What is the name of the native peoples of New Zealand?
Aborigines
Maoris
Marquesas
noble savages
The first European explorer to make peaceful contact with the natives of New Zealand was _____.
Gregory Blaxland
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
James Cook
Thor Heyerdahl
Marn Grook is a(n) _______.
Australian holiday
city in New Zealand
Dutch explorer
game similar to soccer and football
Which region was once called New Holland?
Australia
Hawaii
New Zealand
the Philippines
Tasman explored for _____.
the Netherlands
Spain
Portugal
France
This young navigator accompanied Mendaña on an expedition in 1595.
Gregory Blaxland
Thor Heyerdahl
Pedro Fernández de Quirós
Abel Tasman
Which explorer named the Solomon Islands?
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Alvaro de Mendaña
Thor Heyerdahl
William Solomon
James Chalmers was a missionary to _____.
Papua New Guinea
India
China
Brazil
What Norwegian explorer theorized that the first Polynesians came from South America rather than Asia?
Thor Heyerdahl
Alvaro de Mendaña
Pedro Fernández de Quirós
Abel Tasman
Most of the islands in this group are small islands and are low. Some are less than one square mile in size.
Macronesia
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
This triangular region has corners formed by the Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island, and New Zealand.
Macronesia
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
The Treaty of Waitangi gave the Maoris _______.
all the rights of British citizens
land ownership rights
the right to self-governance
exclusive fishing rights
Polynesian religion was animist and _______.
polytheist
monotheist
atheist
agnostic
Kamehameha the Great united all the _______.
Hawaiian Islands
Caribbean Islands
Philippine Islands
Japanese Islands
What name did the first Europeans assign to the natives of Australia?
Aborigines
Maoris
Inuit
Zulus
Canberra is the capital of what country?
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
South Africa
What was the name of the missionary to Aniwa and Tanna Islands?
John Paton
David Livingstone
James Cook
William Carey
Name the holiday that celebrates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.
Australia Day
Anzac Day
Labour Day
Queen's Birthday
Name the island Abel Tasman discovered while looking for the huge landmass he believed to be the southern land.
Tasmania
New Zealand
Fiji
Hawaii
What is the name of the Australian game that contains elements of football and soccer?
Marn Grook
Rugby
Cricket
Netball
Give the name for the unusual Australian musical instrument made out of eucalyptus wood.
Didgeridoo
Banjo
Harmonica
Ukulele
Name one of the four subregions of Oceania.
Melanesia
Antarctica
Europe
Africa
These were the natives of Easter Island.
Maori
Rapa Nui
Aborigines
Inuit
These people settled in Hawaii and brought their culture with them.
Samoans
Tahitians
Fijians
Maori
What is the farming of fish called?
Agriculture
Aquaculture
Horticulture
Silviculture
Why did the Missionary Party overthrow the queen of Hawaii?
She wanted to expand the kingdom.
She refused to trade with other nations.
She wanted to abolish the constitution and pass bills that legalized vices.
She increased taxes on missionaries.
What were two ways the Polynesians got their food?
They hunted and gathered.
They farmed and built fishponds.
They traded and fished.
They raised livestock and mined.
What two things happened to the Aboriginal Australians after the British settlers grew in numbers?
They gained new technologies and prospered.
They formed alliances and expanded territories.
They died in large numbers from diseases, and the government forced them to assimilate.
They migrated to other regions and maintained their culture.
What did President Cleveland’s representative recommend regarding Hawaii joining the United States?
He recommended for it.
He recommended against it.
He had no opinion.
He suggested a delay.
How did the British whalers, seal hunters, and traders in New Zealand behave?
Lawfully
Peacefully
Lawlessly
Respectfully
