Early Cultures
The first inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
Low, sandy islands formed on top of extinct volcanoes.
What are atolls?
Large mass of compressed ice
What is an icesheet?
Thinning layer of reduced ozone
Along the coast
What is the location of most people?
A communities cultural and historical background, passed through spoken stories and songs.
Oral Tradition
The driest continent in the world.
What is Australia?
What is a glacier?
High dry plateau in Antarctica
What is the interior?
Living formation of rock like materials made from skeletons of tiny sea creatures
What is a coral reef?
Group living in eastern Melanasia on Samoa and Tonga.
Who are the Polynesians?
What is coral bleaching?
Floating masses of ice
24 hours of sunlight
What is summer in Antarctica?
Contributed to increase in drought and coral bleaching
What is climate change?
The original inhabitants of New Zealand and the Cook Islands.
A large reef northeast of Australia.
Near the center of Antarctica
What is the South Pole?
Large landmass of compressed ice covering most of the continent.
What is an ice sheet?
Process that leads to too many fish taken too quickly
What is overfishing?
First people in the world to travel over 1,700 miles by boat.
Who are the Polynesians.
Treaty that preservegs Antarctica for peaceful and scientific use
What is the Antarctic Treaty?
What is Antarctica?
The center of Maori society
What is a marae?