Land & Climate
Name two languages spoken in Australia
French, English, Maori, Tok Pisin and hundreds others
What is an example of an animal that lives in Australia's biomes
What are stonefish, sea krait snakes, taipan snakes, funnel web spiders, Australian box jellies, saltwater crocodiles, koalas, and wombats?
Who were the people who first lived in clans along the coast and deserts in Australia?
What are Aboriginal people?
Vanuatu land divers leap from high towers to celebrate what?
What is a boy's passage to manhood?
What country did Mrs. Swayze struggle to pronounce (hint: and looked up in the dictionary)
What is Papua New Guinea?
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What is an interesting fact about the Savannas in Australia?
They make up the largest collection of natural grasslands left on Earth.
How do people who live in Australia and New Zealand make money?
What is ecotourism (whale watching, reef diving, hiking), factories or tourists?
What is one of Australia and New Zealand's top exports?
What is wool, wheat, meat, processed foods, minerals such as iron, copper, and gold?
This landform of Australia was once called "Sow and Piglets".
What are the Twelve Apostles?
What is Oceania?
What is an ocean region that contains thousands of islands?
What is the largest coral reef in the world?
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
What is a stone structure that was built by the people of Tonga sometime in the 1200s CE?
What is Ha'amonga 'a Maui?
What are constitutional monarchies (list the countries)?
What are Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands?
Australia is one of the world's top producers of this type of fossil fuel.
What is liquefied natural gas?
What are four of Australia and Oceania's landforms
What are flatlands, deserts, grass-covered plains, sandy coastal plains, raised plateaus, mountains, volcanoes, and flat atolls.
Why are coral reefs dying in the waters of Australia and Oceania?
What year did New Zealand become a British colony?
What is 1840?
Australia and Oceania have what percent of the world's population combined?
What is 0.54%?
This artwork is a collection of stories and beliefs that explain the creation of the land, weather, animals, and plant life.
What is the Dreaming? or what is Lightning Man?
Uluru rock is an example of this feature of Earth
What is an example of an endangered species that lives in Australia and Oceania?
What year did Australia become a commonwealth?
What is 1901?
Maori warriors perform this act to scare their enemies
What is the haka war dance?
Is coral a plant or an animal?
Animal! It grows by producing coral polyps.
Wait... what?!
Corals are really made of hundreds or even thousands of tiny animals called polyps. Each polyp builds a hard shell around itself, like building a little fort, to stay safe.
The polyp has a small mouth with wiggly tentacles around it. The tentacles reach out and sting food to catch it, kind of like a jellyfish.
Some corals have tiny plants called algae living with them. They are best buddies — the algae make food for the coral, and the coral gives the algae a place to live. They take care of each other in a symbiotic relationship!