Outback
– Sparsely populated region of the low plateau and plains of Australia
Outback
Treaty between world nations that keeps Antarctica a place for peaceful and scientific use
Antarctic Treaty
People native to a certain area
Indigenous
The Native inhabits of New Zealand and Cook Islands
Maori
People sent by the church to spread Christianity
Missionaries
Australia’s largest desert. It receives less than 10 inches of rain a year
Great Victoria Desert
– Formation of rock like material made up of the skeletons of tiny sea creatures
Coral Reef
Aborigines
Native people of Australia
Intergovernmental organization among countries of the south Pacific aimed to increase cooperation and common good
Pacific Island Forum
– Traditional tattoos of the Maori people
Moko
– Sudden violent overthrown of the government
Coup
Ice sheet
Large mass of compressed ice
– Ring shaped coral islands enclosing a body of water
Atoll
Coup
Sudden violent overthrown of the government
Use of resources to create a new product
Secondary Industry
First Person to reach the South Pole in 1911
Roald Amundsen
The Process in which one group of people take on the traits of another group of people
Assimilation
Maori
Native inhabitants of New Zealand and Cook Islands
Theory explaining how huge block of Earth move
Plate Tectonics
Indigenous
People native to a certain place
The thought that one’s own culture and society is better than another one
Ethnocentrism
Australia’s longest mountain range that separates the Eastern coastal region from inland desert region
Great Dividing Range
– Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement; Trade agreement between countries of the South Pacific including Australia
PICTA
Large mass of compressed ice
Ice Sheets
Native people of Australia
Aborigines