Primary & Secondary Evidence
Define Primary Evidence
information that comes directly from the time when something happened
How many islands are in their commonwealth?
8,000 islands
How many aboriginal tribes are in Australia?
400
Which ocean is Oceania located in?
Pacific Ocean
Which map focuses on natural features like rivers, mountains, oceans and valleys?
physical
Define Secondary Evidence
information created after an event by someone who wasn’t there
85% of Australia's population lives where?
on the coast
What are two inventions of the Indigenous people?
The boomerang and didgeridoo
How many islands are in Oceania?
10,000 islands
Which map shows governmental boundaries and control, states, cities, countries etc?
political
Provide 3 examples of primary evidence.
Diary, photograph, letter, artifact, interview, autobiography, recording, newspaper from the event, speech, etc.
What did Australia used to be called?
New Holland
How many indigenous languages are spoken?
75
Great Barrier Reef.
Which map is designed to show specific information, like climate or transportation?
Special interest or thematic
History textbook, biography, documentary, research paper, magazine article, website, biography, tv show, lecture.
Who founded the first colony in Australia and what year was it founded?
British settlers and 1788
When were the indigenous people given full political citizenship?
1983
How many miles is Oceania total and in land area?
total: 20 million square miles, land: 3.3 million square miles
What type of map would show all of the countries in Africa?
Political
Is this an example of primary or secondary evidence: A lecture given by a professor in 2021 explaining the significance of the Cold War?
Secondary evidence
85%, 12%, and 3%
Explain what happened with the Stolen Generations in the 1900s.
In the 1900’s government forcibly took aboriginal children away from families and placed them in boarding schools with the reasoning being “resocialization and child protection”. Taking away culture, language
Name 5 of the 14 countries in Oceania.
Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Which type of map would show the average precipitation rates across the United States?
Thematic/special interest map