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Australia
Water
Antarctica
Culture
100
The meaning of the term Micronesia
What is “little islands”?
100
A dry virtually treeless land in Australia
What is the Nullarbor Plain?
100
Oceania’s low islands receive small amounts of this and are covered with grasses and shrubs.
What is rainfall?
100
The landform that divides Antarctica into two distinct areas
What are the Transantarctic Mountains?
100
A people who share a common culture
What is an ethnic group?
200
The meaning of Polynesia
What is "many islands"?
200
The World Heritage Site containing underwater creatures and fish located off Australia's northeast coast.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
200
Windless areas near the Equator in the Pacific ocean
What are doldrums?
200
An international agreement restricts activity on Antartica to this.
What is scientific research?
200
Can be made up of the language, religion, and history of a people.
What is culture?
300
The region that includes Melanesia and Micronesia
What is Oceania?
300
A part of the Indian Ocean that lies south of Australia
What is the Great Australian Bight?
300
Wells from which pressurized water flows to the surface are called this.
What are artesian wells?
300
Air does loses these two things as it rises over the Antarctic Plateau.
What are moisture and heat?
300
Every culture creates a social system by organizing its members into these.
What are smaller groups?
400
Characterized by mountain ranges split by valleys that fan out into coastal plains.
What are high islands?
400
Area containing the origins of most of Australia’s rivers
What is the Great Dividing Range?
400
The Great Barrier Reef is formed by coral which are these.
What are the limestone skeletons of tiny sea animals?
400
The movement of the Antarctic ice cap is caused primarily by this.
What is the tremendous weight of the ice?
400
Three of the main factors that change cultures
What are trade, migration, and war?
500
The amount of this varies from island to island in Oceania.
What is rainfall?
500
The arid expanse of grassland and desert in Australia.
What is the Central Lowlands?
500
The general number of separate coral reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef.
What are thousands?
500
The climate zone where Antartica's only two flowering plants grow.
What is the tundra?
500
The two major factors that aided the development of complex social systems.
What are food surpluses and trade?