Vocabulary
Define flora
Who are the aboriginals?
What is indigenous people of Australia
Who are Maori
What is the interior of Australia called?
What is the outback
In what hemisphere are Australia & New Zealand located in?
What is the Southern Hemisphere
Define fauna
What is all of the animal life in a particular region
About how many Aboriginal people are living in Australia today?
What is 400,000
What is the name of the Moari God?
Who is Lo
Where in Australia do most people live?
What are the coasts
What is an endangered species?
Define arid
What is dry and lacking rainfall. A climate zone that is hot all year with very little rain.
What do the Aboriginals do in order to make sure resources are replenished?
What is they would perform rituals
What modern day country do historians believe the Maori came from?
What is Tahiti
On which island of New Zealand does most of the population live?
What is the North Island
Why is Australia called the "down under"?
What is when looking at a map of the world Australia looks like it's under most countries on the globe.
Define peninsula
What is a piece of land surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
What is the dreamtime?
What is the past, present and future and influences all aspects of life. Aboriginals believe that mythic beings shaped the land and established rules for social life during dawn of time.
On which island were the Maori hunters, gatherers and fishers?
What is the South Island
What is common in chaparral regions?
What are fires
What percentage of Australia's plant and animal species are unique to the continent?
What is 80%
Define exotic species
What is a species not native to a particular area that has been brought to an area
What can Aboriginal rock art tell us about Aboriginals and their culture?
What is the sorts of things that they cared about and the things they wanted to happen that they would hope the dreaming spirits would grant them
Who is better integrated into society in their respective countries, the Maori or the Aboriginals?
What is the Maori
How many different vegetation zones are there in Australia?
What is 8
Explain continental drift theory
What is the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangea, about 270 million years ago tectonic plate movement caused Pangea to break apart. Overtime, the movement of the plates caused the continents to be in the places that they are today.