Vocab
The calm within the violent doldrums can change to violent storms
What is a typhoon?
Located along Australia's North Eastern coast.
What is the great barrier reef?
Bauxite, opals, coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, nickel, and petroleum. Is all mineral recourses you find there.
What is Australia?
Climate and vegetation vary greatly in this country.
What is Australia.
Only what percent of Australia's land is arable.
What is 6 percent?
Ring shaped islands.
What are atolls?
The island of New Zealand that has hot springs.
What is the North island?
Underground water system that lies beneath the lowlands.
What is the artesian wells?
These places experience wet and dry monsoons each year.
What are Australia and Oceania.
Worlds largest coral reef.
What is the Great barrier reef?
Formed from limestone, skeletons of a tiny sea animal.
What is coral?
What is the Great Dividing Range?
Most of Australia's rivers begin in this range.
What is the Great Dividing Range?
Climate of Oceania's islands.
What is the tropical wet climate?
Saplings of the acacia tree were used by early settlers to make.
What is a wattle?
Generally windless area, around the equator.
What is doldrums?
This stretches along Australia's eastern coast from the Cape York Peninsula to the island of Tasmania.
What are the peaks?
Almost 90 percent of the country's indigenous plants are native only to this country.
What is New Zealand?
Average temperature in New Zealand.
What is degrees 50F?
Earth deepest point on land is in.
What is Antarctica?
A small shrub that carpets land where prehistoric volcanic eruptions destroyed ancient forest.
What is manuka?
Also known as the outback.
Two rivers that supply water that supports the irrigation farming.
What are the Murray River and the Darling River?
Vinson Massif is the highest point in this continent.
What is Antartica?
This continent has 14 countries.
What is Oceana?