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?
Melting ice contributes directly to this global problem.
What is sea-level rise?
This large island nation lies southeast of Asia.
What is Australia?
These massive ice formations move slowly through Antarctic valleys.
What are glaciers?
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?
Rising seawater can destroy farms by increasing this in the soil.
What is salinity?
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 rocky underwater structures are built from tiny sea creatures’ skeletons.
What is a coral reef?
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?