Vocab
The limestone skeletons of tiny sea animals.
What is coral?
Australia's large interior desert area.
What is the Western Plateau?
What do most islands have in New Zealand?
Tropical wet climate
Supplies water used for irrigated farming in southeast Australia.
What are the Murray and Darling Rivers?
What is coal, iron, gold, zinc, nickel
The only place on earth that is both a continent and a country.
What is Australia?
The worlds larges coral reef along Australias northeastern coast.
What is the Great Barrier Reef
What is the southern alps' annual rainfall?
315 inches
A narrow band near the equator where opposing ocean currents meet.
What are the doldrums?
Australia has one fourth of this resource in their country.
What is bauxite?
A tropical cyclone that produces hurricane force winds.
What are Typhoons
Made up of the North and South islands with a marine west coast climate.
What is New Zealand?
What is Australia's normal climate?
Tropical climates
The thousands of islands that differ in size and extend across millions of square miles of the south pacific ocean that form the region.
What is Oceania?
A mountain range that runs through the southern island of New Zealand.
What are the Southern Alps?
Formed by the buildup of coral reefs on the rim of submerged volcanoes.
What are Atolls
Located between the Great Dividing Range and the Western Plateau, it holds the great Artesian Basin that provides vast amounts of underground water.
What are the Central Lowlands?
This countries climate and vegetation regions include tropical climates in the north, deserts in the interior.
What is Australia?
A vast treasure of pressurized underground water that flows to the surface.
What are Artesian Wells?
An energy resource underground by volcanoes.
What is geothermal energy?
Early settlers built strong interwoven wooden framework used for building homes.
What is Wattle?
These hills and mountains stretch along Australia's eastern coast from the Cape York Peninsula to the island of Tasmania.
What is the Great Dividing Range?
What did Great Britain do to the pinelike kauri trees.
cut most of them down
Shallow pools of clear water that usually rise only a few feet above sea level.
What is a Lagoon?
Plants that are only native to New Zealand and carpets where prehistoric volcanoes destroyed ancient forests.
What is Manuka?