Australia, Pacific Realm, Antarctica (1)
What continent is higher and colder than any other continent?
What is Antarctica?
How are invasive species introduced to new regions?
What is people bring them from other places?
What is special about the platypus and echidna of Australia and New Guinea?
What are indigenous plants and animals?
What city has remained the economic, political, and cultural center of the Philippines for centuries?
What is Manila?
Which two cultures had a strong influence on Southeast Asia more than a thousand years ago?
What are China and India?
What country controlled the Philippines from 1521 - 1898?
What is Spain?
Which modern day country maintained relative freedom from European powers throughout the centuries of colonialism?
What is Thailand?
What did China primarily trade on the Silk Roads?
What is cloth?
What major desert lies in Mongolia?
What is the Gobi Desert?
What does the word Samurai mean?
What is "one who serves"?
What does the word shogun translate as?
What is military ruler?
What is unusual about New Zealand's kiwi and cassowary birds?
What is they are not physically able to fly?
What problem do dingoes cause?
What is they attack native animals and livestock?
What are the two kinds of Pacific Islands?
What are high islands and low islands?
What caused many immigrants to go to Australia in the 1850s?
What is the discovery of gold?
What city in Thailand sits along the banks of the Chao Phraya River?
What is Bangkok?
What term is used when people fish for only what they need to live?
What is subsistence fishing?
In the 17th century, the Netherlands gained power in which country in the region?
What is Indonesia?
Part of what country was known to Europeans as the Spice Islands?
What is Indonesia?
In what year did the Korean War begin, when North Korea attacked South Korea?
What is 1950?
During which dynasty did China begin to trade along the Silk Roads?
What is the Han?
What was life in China like under Chairman Mao?
What is government controlled farms and industry?
What is the focus of industries in North Korea?
What is military equipment?
What is one reason that the population of Aborigines in Australia declined so much?
What is Europeans pushed them off their land?
Why did the British send convicts to Australia?
What is to clear out British prisons?
What three things threaten the corals that make up reefs?
What is warmer water temperatures, pollution, and overfishing?
Why do people on the low islands in the Pacific Realm do more fishing than farming?
What is the low islands often have little rainfall?
What makes the Foja Mountains of New Guinea a unique place for scientists to do research?
What is animal species have lived there without human presence?
Original built as a Hindu temple, this complex of interconnected buildings is located in Cambodia.
What is Angkor Wat?
What word is defined as total control of a market?
What is monopoly?
What 6 countries make up the island nations of Southeast Asia?
What is Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei, and Timor-Leste?
What is a major cause of desertification in Mongolia?
What is livestock grazing?
Where do most people in Japan live?
What are coastal plains?
From which dynasty does the name China probably come?
What is the Qin?
What was the last dynasty in Korea?
What is the Choson?
How did past Aborigines communicate some of their history?
What is painted pictographs on cave walls?
How did the first people probably get to Australia?
What is traveled by sea or land bridge from Asia?
Why does rising water temperature hurt coral reefs?
What is warmer water causes the algae that corals need to leave?
Why is language important to the Aborigines?
What is it passes along their history and culture?
Why did the US get involved in the Vietnam War?
What was the largest and longest lasting mainland empire in ancient Southeast Asia?
What is the Khmer Empire of Cambodia?
During World War 2, what country seized control of both Indonesia and the Philippines?
What is Japan?
What helped certain kingdoms in ancient Southeast Asia gain power?
What is control of trade?
List the following Chinese dynasties in correct chronological order: Han, Qin, Shang, Zhou.
What is Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han?
What did Confucianism teach?
What is both rulers and subjects have to act properly?
What dynasty helped Silla defeat its rival kingdoms?
What is Tang?
What is zaibatsu?
Why were so many different languages present in the region of Australia and the Pacific islands?
What is small groups in isolated areas developed their own language?
In what way did Europeans unintentionally hurt the Aboriginal population?
What three main groups of British people settled in Australia?
What are convicts, migrants, and gold seekers?
What makes up nearly one-fifth of Australia's land mass?
What is desert?
When did the Philippines gain its independence?
What is 1946?
What geographic feature connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans on either side of the Malay Peninsula?
What is a strait?
In 1959, why did North Vietnam's president send aid to overthrow South Vietnam's government?
What is he hoped to create a single communist country?
What are the 5 largest islands of Indonesia?
What are Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, and New Guinea?
What role did China and Korea play in Japan's industrialization?
What is they were sources of raw materials?
Which country served as a model for Japan's industrialization after 1868?
What is Great Britain?
What is an agreement to stop fighting called?
What is an armistice?
Why did the Japanese restore the emperor to power in 1868, effectively ending the period of the shogun?
What is that people wanted to end Japan's isolation, making it competitive with industrialized nations?