Physical Features 1
Location of Oceania
Hawaii is included in Oceania
What is true?
Australia's landscape dominated by this desert
What is the Outback?
People who navigate or find their way by using natural signs like the stars or ocean currents.
What are wayfinders?
Another name for New Zealand
What is Zealandia?
What are Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines?
The number of islands that make up Oceania
What is over 10,000 islands?
Three major landmasses of Oceania
What are Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea?
A large group of islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii and New Zealand.
What is Polynesia?
People who travel or work on the sea, like sailors or fisherman
What are seafarers?
4 subregions of Oceania
What is Australia/New Zealand, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia?
3 Island groups that make up Oceania
What are the Continental, High, and Low islands?
Region that holds the Ring of Fire
What is Melanesia?
People who go on a long journey to faraway places, usually by sea or through space.
What are voyagers?
The place most people live in Australia
What is the coast?
Largest Mountain Range in Australia
What is the Great Dividing Range?
Coral islands made up of the skeletons and living bodies of small marine animals called corals.
What are Low islands?
Three important volcanic mountains that are included in Melanesia.
What are Mount Tamanu, Fiji; Mount Lamington, Papua New Guinea; and Mount Yasur, Vanuatu
Living creatures that make up the land and ocean ecosystems along with the islands of Hawaii are related to this.
What are Oral Traditions?
Name of the six indigenous groups that are found in Oceania.
What are Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous Polynesians, Indigenous Melanesians, Indigenous Micronesians, Torres Strait Islands, and the Kanak People?
Created as tectonic plates press together and push land upward
What are fold mountains?
Volcanic islands are created as eruptions build up over time. These eruptions begin underwater.
What are high islands?
Marine realm in Australia and Oceania that is known for having the greatest diversity of tropical coral.
What is Central Indo-Pacific?
Key agricultural practices developed by early Polynesian voyagers in Hawaii
What are Agricultural terraces?
The Length of the Great Barrier Reef
What is 1,430 Miles?