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"Oldies"
100
the capital of Australia
What Canberra?
100
the capital of New Zealand
What is Wellington?
100
the reason why Antarctica is considered to have a polar desert climate
What is because it has little precipitation and the air is so dry all the time?
100
type of government that has a king or queen but also a parliament and a prime minister
What is a parliamentary democracy?
100
when a country is exporting more than they are importing
What is a trade surplus?
200
Australia's largest city
What is Sydney?
200
country that ruled both Australia and New Zealand
What is Great Britain?
200
the percentage of the world's ice found in Antarctica
What is about 90%?
200
name given to Australia and New Zealand as a continent
What is Oceania?
200
tax placed by a government on goods (usually imports)
What is a tariff?
300
the first humans in Australia
Who are the Aborigines?
300
the first humans in New Zealand
Who are the Maori?
300
the people that live in Antarctica
Who are scientists/researchers/
300
ring-shaped island of coral in the South Pacific
What is an atoll?
300
major religion practiced throughout much of southeast Asia
What is Buddhism?
400
vast area of Australia that is dry, mostly barren and largely uninhabited
What is the Outback?
400
two exports that both Australia and New Zealand ship to other countries
What are wool, meat and dairy products?
400
the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 banned this
What is military activity?
400
British Naval captain who explored the islands of the South Pacific
Who is James Cook?
400
islands that are normally formed by volcanic and seismic activity
What are high islands?
500
two other major cities in Australia besides Canberra and Sydney
What are Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne?
500
both Australia and New Zealand are part of this larger union
What is the British Commonwealth?
500
team led by this man were the first to reach the South Pole
Who is Roald Amundsen?
500
the thinning of this layer of the Earth's atmosphere over the South Pole has been cause for concern among environmentalists
What is the ozone layer?
500
U.S. territory found in the South Pacific
What is American Samoa? or Guam