Key Terms
This industry focuses on manufacturing and turning raw materials into products.
What is secondary industry?
Captain James Cook used this tool to make more accurate maps while sailing.
What is a chronometer?
These are the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Who are the Māori?
The Antarctic Treaty is an agreement between many nations that keeps Antarctica for:
What is scientific use?
This country lies north of Australia
What is Papua New Guinea?
These rocky underwater structures are built from tiny sea creatures’ skeletons.
What is a coral reef?
This word describes a sudden and forceful takeover of a government.
What is a coup?
This process occurs when one cultural group adopts another’s customs.
What is assimilation?
British colonists took Aboriginal children away from their families and forced them to live in institutions or with white families. This practice continued into the:
1960's
This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef.
What is Australia?
Australia’s original inhabitants are known by this name.
Who are the Aborigines?
These people introduced private land ownership to Pacific Island societies.
Who are the colonizers?
Missionaries came to the Pacific mainly for this purpose.
What is spreading religious beliefs?
These frozen masses float in the ocean after breaking off glaciers.
What are icebergs?
These islands lie northeast of Australia.
What are the Solomon Islands?
This long-lasting weather condition can severely reduce farm harvests.
What is a drought?
This scientific theory explains the movement of Earth’s continents.
What is plate tectonics?
This belief places one’s own culture above others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Climate change increases the likelihood of this dry weather event.
What is drought?
This river is one of Australia’s longest.
What is the Darling River?
These massive ice formations move slowly through Antarctic valleys.
What are glaciers?
European settlers justified many actions using a belief in cultural superiority called this.
What is ethnocentrism?
This sparsely populated region covers much of Australia’s interior.
What is the Outback?
Human-made chemicals caused damage to this protective atmospheric layer.
What is the ozone layer?
This ocean borders western Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?