Australia
New Zealand
Oceania
Antarctica
Vocabulary
100
The Aborigines came from this continent about 40,000 years ago.
What is Asia?
100
Early people of New Zealand
What are the Maori?
100
The fastest growing industry in Polynesia
What is tourism?
100
This lies under Antarctica's huge ice cap
What is highlands, valleys, and mountains
100
mammal that carry its young in a pouch
What is a marsupial?
200
Australia is the world's leading producer of this product
What is wool?
200
New Zealand's form of government
What is a parliamentary democracy?
200
Chain of islands located in northern Polynesia, also our 50th state
What is Hawaii?
200
Makes up the huge ice cap that covers Antarctica
What is 70% of the earth's freshwater?
200
center of an atoll
What is a lagoon?
300
Island south of Australia that is still part of Australia
What is Tasmania?
300
Where 75% of the people of New Zealand live
What is the North Island?
300
This country rules some of the islands in Polynesia
What is France?
300
Name of Antarctica's active volcano
What is Mount Erebus?
300
Steep-sided valley cut into mountains by the action of glaciers
What is a fjord?
400
Coral formations off Australia's northeastern coast
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
400
New Zealand was a colony of this country.
What is the United Kingdom?
400
Low islands of Micronesia were formed by these
What is coral?
400
The focus of much of the research done in Antarctica
What is ozone?
400
Inland regions of Australia
What is the outback?
500
This landform stretches along Australia's southeastern coast.
What is The Great Dividing Range?
500
New Zealand sits on top of molten rock. As a result, it is rich in this form of energy.
What is geothermal energy?
500
Two of the independent countries of Polynesia are Tonga, Tuvalu. Name the third.
What is Samoa?
500
Food for many of Antarctica's animals
What is krill (tiny, shrimp-like creatures)?
500
Spring that shoots hot water through a crack in the earth's crust
What is a geyser?
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