monarchs and governance
Oceanic lands
explorers
geography
life in Oceania
5
This influential king intoned, "Tonga is dedicated to God."
Who is Tupou I?
5
The only remaining Oceanic monarchy governs this island group.
What is Tonga? 
5
This Norwegian explorer proposed that the first Polynesians came from South America rather than Asia.
Who is Thor Heyerdahl?
5
These categories are generally considered the four subregions of Oceania.
What are Australia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia? 
5
Early Polynesians brought this plant to the various islands they settled.
What is taro?
10
This island group in 1862 established a parliament, which in 1875 approved a Constitution.
What is Tonga?
10
This is the largest landmass in Oceania.
What is Australia? 
10
This nucleic acids carries genetic information of living things.
What is DNA?
10
These island groups are generally considered the three "corners" of "triangular-shaped" Polynesia.
What are New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island? 
10
This dog breed came to Australia from Asia in ancient times via sailing ships.
What are dingoes?
15
These are generally the two types of islands in Oceania.
What are high islands and low islands?
15
In 1947, this Norwegian explorer proved that it was possible to travel in a balsa boat from Peru to Tuamoto.
Who is Thor Heyerdahl?
15
This is the more formal geographic term for "low islands," islands formed from coral.
What are atolls?
15
Indigenous Australians are called by this categorical name.
What are Aborigines? 
20
This island group contains many high islands, including New Guinea, New Britain, and Bougainville.
What is Melanesia?
20
These islands tend to be better for people and agriculture.
What are high islands?
20
Aborigines likely grew these crops. 
What are millet, yams, bush tomatoes, and old man's weed?
25
Populations on this type of islands tend to suffer greater damage from tropical storms and high waves.
What are low islands?
25
The people on this type of islands are more dependent upon fishing as a food supply.
What are low islands?
25
Aborigines practiced this type of agriculture to reinvigorate the soil.
What is fire-stick farming?
30
These islands were likely settled last, about 1200 A.D., among the major lands of Polynesia.
What is New Zealand?
30
Scientists theorize early settlers of this land arrived there during an ice age land bridge.
What is Australia? 
30
Aborigines stacked rocks in ponds in an early form of this now modern form of food production.
What is aquaculture?
35
Aborigines used these sticks that could return to the throwers.
What is a boomerang?
40
This societal unit raised Aboriginal children.
What is an extended family?