Oceania

Question 0

Southern Alps

Answer 0

A mountain chain in New Zealand

Question 1

Great dividing range

Answer 1

A range of low mountains in Australia

Question 2

Geyser

Answer 2

A hot spring that shoots sprays of steam and boiling water into the air

Question 3

Outback

Answer 3

The interior region of Australia

Question 4

Uluru

Answer 4

A spectacular rock outcropping in the Australian outback

Question 5

Great Barrier Reef

Answer 5

A 1,250 mile chain of coral reefs off the coast of Australia

Question 6

Marsupial

Answer 6

An animal with an abdominal pouch to carry its young

Question 7

Outcropping

Answer 7

Bedrock that rises above the soil

Question 8

Draft animal

Answer 8

An animal used to pull a heavy load

Question 9

James cook

Answer 9

A British explorer who claimed to land in Australia

Question 10

Aborigine

Answer 10

An original inhabitant of Australia

Question 11

Penal colony

Answer 11

A settlement that serves as a prison

Question 12

Charles Perkins

Answer 12

An aboriginal rights leader

Question 13

Mechanized

Answer 13

Equipped with machines

Question 14

Hunter gatherer

Answer 14

A person who hunts animals and gathers plants for food

Question 15

Constitutional monarchy

Answer 15

A government in which the powers of the king or queen are limited by a constitution

Question 16

Maori

Answer 16

Polynesian people who were the first inhabitants of New Zealand

Question 17

Treaty of Waitangi

Answer 17

A treaty between the British and the Maori signed in 1840

Question 18

Pakeha

Answer 18

A Maori word that means “white people”

Question 19

Hydroelectric power

Answer 19

Electricity produced by moving water

Question 20

Geothermal energy

Answer 20

Power produced by the internal heat of the earth

Question 21

Oceania

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The region of the Pacific Ocean with thousands of islands

Question 22

Melanesia

Answer 22

A subregion of Oceania that includes islands of northeast of Australia and south of the equator

Question 23

Micronesia

Answer 23

A subregion of Oceania that includes islands east of the Philippines and north of the equator

Question 24

Polynesia

Answer 24

A subregion of Oceania that includes islands of the central and southern pacific

Question 25

Oceanic island

Answer 25

An island rising from the deep sea floor on a volcanic foundation

Question 26

Coral island

Answer 26

A type of oceanic island that is a coral reef

Question 27

Atoll

Answer 27

A ring shaped coral reef encircling a central lagoon with no inner island

Question 28

Trust territory

Answer 28

A territory placed under the control of a country by the United Nations

Question 29

Pidgin

Answer 29

A simple form of speech that is a mixture of words from two or more languages

Question 30

Transantartic mountains

Answer 30

Mountains that divide Antarctica into two parts

Question 31

Geographic South Pole

Answer 31

The point where all lines of longitude meet

Question 32

Icecap

Answer 32

A glacier that covers a large area

Question 33

Antarctic peninsula

Answer 33

An S shaped peninsula that is part of the Andes mountain chain

Question 34

Ice shelf

Answer 34

Huge flat sheet of ice extending over the ocean, but attached to the land

Question 35

Iceberg

Answer 35

A large piece of floating ice

Question 36

Robert Scott

Answer 36

A British polar explorer

Question 37

Ronald Amundsen

Answer 37

Norwegian polar explorer who was first to reach the South Pole

Question 38

Antarctic treaty

Answer 38

An agreement signed in 1959 calling for the peaceful use of Antarctica

Question 39

Ozone hole

Answer 39

The seasonal thinning of a protective layer of atmospheric gas high above Antarctica