Geography
This is the remote, dry interior region of Australia.
What is the Outback?
These are people who were the first to live in a place.
What does indigenous mean?
This Pacific region contains many small islands.
What is Micronesia?
This is a very dry area with little rainfall.
What is a desert?
A person found guilty of a crime by a court is called this.
What is a convict?
This word means being far away from other places or people.
What is isolation?
This word means having many different kinds of people, plants, or animals.
What is diversity?
This Pacific region is spread across the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
What is Polynesia?
This is a ridge of rock or coral found near the ocean surface.
What is a reef?
This is when people move to a new land and settle there.
What is colonization?
This is a group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
Moving to a new country to live there is called this.
What is immigration?
This Pacific region is near Australia.
What is Melanesia?
This is a large, slow-moving mass of ice on land.
What is a glacier?
This is a place where prisoners are sent as punishment.
What is a penal colony?
This term describes how close something is to another place.
What is proximity?
These are reasons people leave one place and move to another.
What are push and pull factors?
This is a ring-shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon.
What is an atoll?
This word refers to the far north or far south ends of Earth.
What is a pole?
Australia originally began as this type of colony.
What is a penal colony?
This is a series of islands that are close together in a line.
What is an island chain?
This word describes a group of living things that are alike and can have babies together.
What is a species?
This narrow body of water connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
To say something belongs to you is to do this.
What is a claim?
People may move because of jobs, safety, or opportunities. These are examples of this term.
What are push and pull factors?