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The Pacific Islands
Australia and New Zealand
Southeast Asia
Countries
Vocabulary
100
What are the two types of islands?
High islands and low islands
100
New Zealand was created by what?
Volcanoes
100
What kind of crop is grown in a paddy?
Rice
100
What is the name of the small island nation off the coast of mainland Southeast Asia?
Singapore
100
What is the name of the huge slabs of rock that move over the Earth's surface?
Tectonic plates
200
What are the three regions of the Pacific islands?
Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia
200
What are the two main islands of New Zealand?
North Island and South Island
200
What pattern has a major impact on the weather of Southeast Asia?
Monsoons
200
Mount Pinatubo errupted in what country in 1991?
the Philippines
200
What is a long narrow inlet or arm of the sea bordered by steep slopes created by glaciers?
Fjords
300
What newer economic activity is a major new source of money for their economies?
Tourism
300
Many of the unique animals in Australia are this type of mammal. What is it?
Marsupials
300
Most of island Southeast Asia's climate is what?
Tropical Wet
300
What country shares a part of an island with Indonesia?
Papua New Guinea
300
What is a small coral island in the shape of a ring?
Atoll
400
What island group has the biggest populations?
High islands
400
What island is off the Southeast coast of Australia?
Tasmania
400
Much of Southeast Asia is a part of this group of volcanoes. What is it?
Ring of Fire
400
What is another name for the country of Myanmar
Burma
400
What is a grass that is used to build shelters?
Bamboo
500
What are two cash crops that are grown in the region?
sugar, copra, dried coconut
500
What is the name of the famous, huge, red geological form?
Ayers Rock
500
What country has the biggest population in Southeast Asia?
Indonesia
500
What is a hot spring that shoots a jet of water and steam into the air?
Geyser
500
What is a rocklike material made up of the skeletons of tiny sea creatures?
Coral