Vocabulary
Plants and animals native to a specific region.
What does indigenous mean?
This type of marsupial has gray fur, eats and lives in eucalyptus trees.
What is a koala?
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This is the only country in the world that is also a continent. It is referred to as the "island continent"
What is Australia?
When Europeans began to settle in Australia in the 1800s, they brought along this species, which quickly became feral and caused serious damage to crops and grazing lands.
What are European Rabbits?
What is a marsupial?
This animal is the only amphibian in New Zealand.
What is a frog?
Make a sentence with one of the cloud types.
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These are unusually hot parts of the Earth's mantle that magma can rise up from.
What are hotspots?
This is an indigenous animal to Australia and New Guinea and the only mammal in the world that can lay eggs and has a beak.
What is a platypus?
When referring to animals, this is the opposite of domesticated.
Wild.
What is feral?
These types of mammals lay eggs. Examples include the Echidna and the Platypus. Their name means "one hole."
What are monotremes?
These types of winds blow over large areas of Earth.
What are global winds?
These islands are formed by volcanic activity as tectonic plates move over hotspots.
What are high islands?
Also acceptable: what are volcanic islands?
This type of invasive plant species is devastating New Zealands native plant populations by smothering native foliage and can even take down large trees.
What is old man's beard?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
These hunting animals were brought to Australia by seafaring travelers about 3,000 years ago and today prey on native kangaroos and wallabies.
What are dingoes?
These local winds blow during the day when the land heats up faster than the sea, and the cooler, high-pressure air flows over the water onto the land.
What is a sea breeze?
These islands are also called low islands and form over long periods of time by a gradual buildup of the skeletons of corals and other tiny marine animals.
What are coral islands?
Also acceptable: what are atolls?
These animals were introduced to Australia for both hunting and to solve the invasive European rabbit problem. They became an invasive problem as well.
What are (European) red foxes?
Islands formed on top of coral reefs after millions of years of erosion of a volcanic island.
How are atolls formed?
This indigenous Australian flightless bird can grow as high as five feet tall and can be aggressive
What is a cassowary?
(arguably also: what is an emu?)not aggressive
This type of precipitation occurs when rain falls through a layer of freezing air. The raindrops turn into small lumps of ice before hitting the ground.
What is sleet?
These islands are great for growing crops because they get plenty of rain and have nutrient-rich soil.
What are high (volcanic) islands?
Predators in Australia are not adapted to this invasive animal's toxin, and therefore this animal is able to move freely and can poison people, pets, and many native species in Australia.
What are cane toads?