Vocab
The only place on Earth that is both a continent and a country.
What is Australia?
What Oceania's atolls were formed by.
What did Volcanic activity create?
The percentage of Australia's land that is arable.
What is 6%?
New Zealand's climate.
What is Marine west coast climate?
The biggest desert in the world.
What is Antartica?
The limestones skeletons of a tiny sea animal.
What is coral?
Oceania's island type.
What are Low Island?
2 materials that Australia yields.
What is aluminum, bauxite, coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, nickel, and petroleum?
Oceania's Islands climate.
What is Tropical wet climate?
An interwoven wooden framework used for building houses.
What is Wattle?
Ring shaped islands formed by the buildup of coral reefs on the rim of submerged volcanoes.
What are atolls?
What is the great barrier reef made of?
What is Coral?
Jewel that Australia holds.
What is opal.
The reason why the central region of Australia have conditions suitable for farming.
What is The central region has lakes and it helps with the soil for farming?
The rivers that support irrigated farming.
What are Murray river and Darling River?
Region of islands scattered throughout most of the pacific ocean.
What is Oceania?
The chain of hills and mountains in Eastern Australia is know as.
What is The Dividing Range?
Something that the colliding tectonic plates create.
What is Islands.
The climate that many Oceania islands have.
What is Tropical wet climate?
Trees that grow on islands with more rainfall.
What are coconut palm trees?
A generally windless area that occupies a narrow band near the equator where opposing ocean currents meet.
What are Doldrums?
An area of land that lies South of the Great Victoria Desert.
What is the Nullarbor Plain?
Australian farmers near Murray and Darling river grow these 2 kinds of vegetation.
What is wheat, barley, fruit and sugarcane?
Temperatures in New Zealand during the summer.
What is 65F and 85F?
Percentage of the country's indigenous plants that are native.
What is 90%?