Geographic Terms
series of connected mountains
What is mountain range?
hot springs that spout steam and water through a crack in the earth
What are geysers?
Australia is a country, but it is also a ___.
What is continent?
New Zealand's national symbol
What is the kiwi bird?
direction a river flows from its source to its mouth
What is downstream?
one of four major bodies of salt water surrounding continents
What is ocean?
small shrubs that grow well in fertile volcanic soil
What is manuka?
Australia's nickname
What is "The Land Down Under?"
three farm products of New Zealand
What are wool, lamb meat, and kiwi fruit?
land that is built up from soil carried downstream by a river
What is delta?
stream of either cold or warm water moving through the ocean
What is ocean current?
electricity generated by flowing water
What is hydroelectric power?
Hemisphere that Australia is in
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
What New Zealand did in 1893 that was a first in the world
What is gave women the right to vote?
one of many lines running from north to south; used to measure degrees of longitude
What are meridians?
where stream or river flows into larger body of water
What is mouth?
electricity produced by natural underground sources of steam
What is geothermal energy?
four unusual Australian animals
kangaroo, koala, platypus, emu
native people of Australia
What are Aborigines?
distance north or south of Equator
What is latitude?
one of many lines running east to west that are used to measure latitude
What are parallels?
steep-sided valleys cut into mountains by glaciers
What are fjords?
Australia has some plants and animals that are not found anywhere else in the world. Explain.
What is because the tectonic plate on which Australia sits separated from other continents?
what Europeans unknowingly brought to the Aborigines when they discovered Australia
What are diseases?
distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?