Vocab
A ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral
What is Atoll?
A low area of flat land in central and western Australia that covers almost two-thirds of the continent
What is Western Plateau?
A string of more than 2,500 small reefs located on the Northeast coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Unlike shrubs and grasses, which grow on dry, low islands, this tree appears on islands with more rainfall.
What is Coconut Palms?
The only place on the Earth that is both a continent and a country.
What is Australia?
A stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef
These two islands display sandy beaches, emerald hillsides and snow-tipped mountains, and are located Southeast of Australia
What is New Zealand?
These people near the Murray and Daromd Rovers, grow wheat barley, fruit, and sugarcane
What is Australian Farmers?
This type of climate covers most of the islands in Oceania
What is Tropical Wet Climate?
The islands that lie north and east of Australia meaning “black islands”
What is Melanesia?
A material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches
What is Wattle?
South of the great victoria desert lies this plain whose name comes from the Latin nullus arbor, meaning “no tree”
What is Nullarbor Plain?
A vast treasure of pressurized underground water that lies beneath the central lowlands
What is the Great Artesian Basin?
In this climate area more regular rainfall brings vegetation to life such as eucalyptus and acacia trees.
What is Milder Steppe Climate?
A high country that features sparkling lakes, carved by glaciers, and tumbling rivers that rises to 12,316 feet.
What is Aorangi (Mount Cook)?
An equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds
What is Doldrums?
This arid expanse of grassland and desert stretches across the east central part of Australia and separates the Great Dividing Range and the Western Plateau.
What is Central Lowlands?
Pressurized water flows to the surface, is too salty for humans or crops, rancher use it to water livestock
What is Artesian Wells?
Although the country as a whole averages 25-60 inches, this area on South Island has an annual average of 315 inches
What is the Southern Alps?
A region consisting of thousands of islands, differing in size and extending across millions of square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Some were created by colliding tectonic plates millions of years ago and others were created by volcanic hot spots.
What is Oceania?
A New Zealand myrtaceous tree, Leptospermum scoparium, with strong elastic wood and aromatic leaves
What is Manuka?
A chain of hills and mountains stretching from the Cape York Peninsula to the Island of Tasmania that interrupt Australia’s otherwise level landscape
What is the Great Dividing Range?
Name two of the seven of the deposits of mineral resources that make the country of Australia one of the world’s major mining areas.
What is coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, nickel, and petroleum?
These yearly seasonal weather patterns impact the natural vegetation of the region and the lives of its people
What is Wet & Dry Monsoons?
New Zealand's most important resource which greatly benefits the country's economy
What is Fertile Volcanic Soil?