Deck 10: Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica

Question 1

Which of the following is not correct regarding the Aborigines of Australia?

A) The population was about 200,000 to 500,000 at the time the Europeans arrived.
B) They had an animistic religion.
C) They were nomadic hunters.
D) They all spoke the same language.

Answer 1

They all spoke the same language.

Question 2

The Maori of New Zealand came from

A) Australia
B) China
C) South America
D) South Pacific islands

Answer 2

South Pacific islands

Question 3

The first European settlers in Australia were

A) religious dissenters
B) merchants
C) prisoners
D) utopian

Answer 3

prisoners

Question 4

The main colonizers in the South Pacific Islands were the

A) French
B) Americans
C) British
D) Germans

Question 5

Areas within _______ degrees of the equator have hot and rainy weather all year.

A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 30

Question 6

The parts of Australia that are least subject to drought are

A) Around the coasts
B) In the interior
C) At Ayres Rock
D) In the far west

Question 7

An atoll is an island that has

A) a volcanic center and a coral reef around the shores.
B) A volcanic center, surrounded by a lagoon and a coral reef.
C) A lagoon in the middle and a coral reef surrounding it.
D) A folded and faulted mountain range caused by the clash of tectonic plates.

Question 8

The line that separates Asian from Australian plant and animal species in Indonesia is called the

A) Mason-Dixon Line
B) Free-throw line
C) Wallace Line
D) International Date Line

Question 9

About half the native animals of Australia are __________, which raise their young in pouches.

A) birds
B) reptiles
C) rabbits
D) marsupials

Question 10

An animal import that has been a particular pest in Australia is the

A) domestic cat
B) rabbit
C) mouse
D) horse

Question 11

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, as well as low coral islands in the Pacific, are vulnerableTo

A) sea-level rise from global warming
B) earthquake damage
C) snowstorms
D) tornadoes

Question 12

Australia and New Zealand share all these problems in common except

A) low education levels
B) great distances from traditional markets
C) transition from historic colonial ties to Europe to closer involvement with the Pacific Rim
D) small local markets

Question 13

Most Australians live in

A) the West
B) the North
C) the Southeast
D) the Southwest

Question 14

The least populated political division in Australia is

A) Victoria
B) New South Wales
C) Western Australia
D) Northern Territory

Question 15

Today, most immigrants to Australia come from

A) Britain
B) Continental Northwestern Europe
C) Asia
D) The United States

Question 16

Both Australia and New Zealand are developing new markets in

A) Asia
B) Europe
C) South America
D) North America

Question 17

Over one-half of Australia's foreign tourists come from

A) The United States
B) Europe
C) Asia
D) Africa

Question 18

All are part of Australia except:

A) Great Barrier Reef
B) The Great Dividing Range
C) Southern Alps
D) The Outback

Question 19

All are true except

A) Most of the surface of Antarctica is covered in ice and snow.
B) The Transantarctic Mountains are an extension of South America's Andes Mountains.
C) The Antarctic was never part of Gondwanaland.
D) The majority of Antarctica's terrestrial extent lies in East Antarctica.

Question 20

Which of the following refers to "black islands"

A) Polynesia
B) Melanesia
C) Oceania
D) Micronesia

Question 21

The Maori of New Zealand came from Polynesia.

Question 22

Australia was the last inhabited continent to be explored by Europeans.

Question 23

Sheep farming really became established in New Zealand after the invention of barbed wire.

Question 24

The Maori of New Zealand are more integrated into New Zealand society than the Aborigines are in Australia.

Question 25

Coral atoll islands in the South Pacific have abundant rainfall.

Question 26

Australia is the flattest continent because it is far from any plate boundaries.

Question 27

Australia has a federal form of government.

Question 28

The weather on the main islands of New Zealand is very similar to that of Hawaii.

Question 29

The island of Tasmania is part of New Zealand.

Question 30

The dried white meat that lines the inside of a coconut shell is called ________.

Question 31

A well in which water naturally rises to the surface because of pressure on the underground layers of rock is called _____________________.

Question 32

The _________________________ was the main colonizer of the Pacific Islands.

Question 33

__________________ is a specially planned city as well as the capital of Australia.

Question 34

In 1991 the __________________________ banned commercial mining activities and introduced protection regulations in Antarctica.