Vocabulary
Water
Landforms
Islands
Three Times
100
an animal that carries its young in a pouch
What is a marsupial
100
Of Australia's two rivers, this is the one that is further north
What is the Darling River
100
The desert that takes up central Australia that is actually made of several smaller deserts
What is the Outback
100
High islands are created by these
What are mountains or volcanoes
100
The three TYPES of islands in the Pacific
What are High, Low and Atolls
200
large piece of the earth's crust
What is a tectonic plate
200
Largest coral reef system in the world
What is the Great Barrier Reef
200
The tallest mountain in New Zealand
What is Mount Cook
200
These are what creates low islands
What are sand and coral
200
The three GROUPS of islands in the Pacific
What are Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia
300
hot spring that shoots scalding water into the air
What is a geyser
300
Of Australia's two rivers, this is the one that is farther south
What is the Murray River
300
The tallest mountain in Australia
What is Mount Kosciusko
300
The third smallest country in the world
What is Nauru
300
The three types of tectonic plates
What are divergent, convergent, and transform
400
type of low island that has water around it AND in the middle of it
What is an atoll
400
The body of water between Australia and New Zealand
What is the Tasman Sea
400
The most famous building in Australia
What is the Sydney Opera House
400
The "third" island that makes up New Zealand
What is Stewart Island
400
Three problems in Tuvalu
What are pollution, COTS, sinking, no natural freshwater, little tourism,
500
a narrow inlet from the sea that is bordered by steep cliffs
What is a fiord
500
The body of water that is northwest of Australia
What is the Timor Sea
500
The native name for Ayers Rock
What is Uluru
500
The tiny island in the middle of the Pacific owned by Chile
What is Easter Island
500
Three bad things the Europeans did to the original people of Australia and New Zealand
What is killed them, gave them diseases, enslaved them, and pushed them off their land
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