Physical Geography
It is a rock-like structure built by layers of coral organisms.
What is a coral reef?
These plants and animals are native to the region where they are found.
What are indigenous plants and animals?
They are non-native plants and animals that disturb the habitats of native life forms.
What are invasive species?
It is a group of islands northeast of Australia and New Zealand.
What are the Pacific Islands?
It is the largest coral reef in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
It is a large area in the Pacific Ocean made up of thousands of small islands and coral reefs.
What is the Pacific Realm?
What is a kiwi bird?
This animal has lived in Australia for many years, but were not indigenous to the island continent.
What is a dingo?
These islands are created by a gradual buildup of the skeletons of corals and other tiny marine animals. They often sit on top of coral reefs.
What are low islands?
It is the only country in the world that is also a continent.
What is Australia?
This large kingfisher bird is famous for it's call, which sounds like laughter.
What is a kookaburra?
These invasive species were brought to Australia by Europeans in the 1800s.
What are feral rabbits?
This island is formed when tectonic plates move over hot spots, or unusually hot parts of the mantle.
What is a high island?
These are ring-shaped reefs, islands, or chains of islands made of coral.
These trees grow rapidly and sometimes even reach 300 feet in height!
What are eucalyptus trees?
This plant has spread widely since the 1940s. It smothers down native foliage (leaves of a plant or tree) and can even bring down large trees.
What is an "old man's beard?"
This is a nickname for Australia.
What is the "island continent?"
These types of animals are mammals whose females carry their babies in a pouch.
What is a marsupial?
How many species of small mammals have become extinct in Australia since the introduction of non-native animals?
19