Vocab 14

Question 1

High Islands

Answer 1

Larger, more elevated islands, often focused around recent volcanic activity

Question 2

Micronesia

Answer 2

Pacific ocean region that includes the culturally diverse, generally small islands, including the Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, and others

Question 3

Outback

Answer 3

Australias huge, dry interior, as thinly settled as the Sahara

Question 4

Oceania

Answer 4

A major world sub-region that includes New Zealand and the major islands of Melanesia, Mircronesia and Polynesia

Question 5

Aborigine

Answer 5

An indigenous inhabitant of Australia

Question 6

Polynesia

Answer 6

Broadly unified by language ad cultural traditions, includes the Hawaiian Islands, Marquesas islands, Tuamotu archipelago, american samoa, tonga, iribati and others

Question 7

Maori

Answer 7

Indigenous polynesian people of New Zealand

Question 8

Atoll

Answer 8

Low, sandy islands made from coral, often oriented around a sandy lagoon; volcanic eruption is the first step in the creation

Question 9

Archipelago

Answer 9

Island groups, often oriented in elongated patterns

Question 10

Kanaka

Answer 10

Melanesian workers imported to Australia, historically often concentrated along Queenslands “sugar coast”

Question 11

Melanesia

Answer 11

“Dark Islands” of New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji

Question 12

Hot spot

Answer 12

A supply of magma that produces a chain of mid-ocean volcanoes atop a zone of moving oceanic crust

Question 13

Uncontacted people

Answer 13

Ethnic and cultural groups that have yet to be “discovered” by the western world

Question 14

Haoles

Answer 14

Light-skinned Europeans or US citizens in the Hawaiian Islands

Question 15

Native Title Bill

Answer 15

Law that gave Australia’s aboriginal population greater control over their sacred lands