Early Cultures
Challenges
Antarctica
Antarctica
Australia and the Pacific
100

The first inhabitants of Australia

Aborigines

100

Low, sandy islands formed on top of extinct volcanoes.

What are atolls?

100

Large mass of compressed ice

What is an icesheet?

100

Thinning layer of reduced ozone

What is an ozone hole?
100

Along the coast

What is the location of most people?

200

A communities cultural and historical background, passed through spoken stories and songs.

Oral Tradition

200

The driest continent in the world.

What is Australia?

200
Slow moving bodies of ice

What is a glacier?

200

High dry plateau in Antarctica

What is the interior?

200

Living formation of rock like materials made from skeletons of tiny sea creatures

What is a coral reef?

300

Group living in eastern Melanasia on Samoa and Tonga.

Who are the Polynesians?

300
Sun exposure and warmer waters destroying coral reefs.

What is coral bleaching?

300

Floating masses of ice

What are iceburgs?
300

24 hours of sunlight

What is summer in Antarctica?

300

Contributed to increase in drought and coral bleaching

What is climate change?

400

The original inhabitants of New Zealand and the Cook Islands.

Who are the Moari?
400

A large reef northeast of Australia.

What is the Great Barrier Reef?
400

Near the center of Antarctica

What is the South Pole?

400

Large landmass of compressed ice covering most of the continent.

What is an ice sheet?

400

Process that leads to too many fish taken too quickly

What is overfishing?

500

First people in the world to travel over 1,700 miles by boat.

Who are the Polynesians.

500
This island will disappear completely by 2100.
What is Tuvalu?
500

Treaty that preservegs Antarctica for peaceful and scientific use

What is the Antarctic Treaty?

500
Continent with no plants

What is Antarctica?

500

The center of Maori society

What is a marae?