Deck 12: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands

Question 1

The indigenous Mãori people refer to New Zealand as:

A) Aotearoa
B) Mao-Mao
C) Pago-Pago
D) Diprotodon

Answer 1

Aotearoa

Question 2

A great stimulus to development and immigration in Australia was the ________ of the 1850.

A) American Civil War
B) gold rush
C) tea party
D) slave trade

Answer 2

gold rush

Question 3

New Zealand's indigenous population are the:

A) Indians
B) Pago-Pagos
C) Mauis
D) Maori

Answer 3

Maori

Question 4

-New Zealand straddles the Pacific Plate and the ________ Plate.

A) Philippine
B) North American
C) Indo-Australian
D) Fiji

Question 5

- Which is the correct order of U.S. possessions from east to west in the Pacific Ocean?

A) Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands
B) Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam
C) Northern Marianas Islands, Wake Island, Hawaii
D) Hawaii, Wake Island, Howland Island

Question 6

- Niue and Cook Island are among the possessions of ________ in the Pacific Ocean.

A) New Zealand
B) the United States
C) the United Kingdom
D) Chile

Question 7

-Baker Island and Jarvis Island are among the possessions of ________ in the Pacific Ocean.

A) New Zealand
B) the United States
C) the United Kingdom
D) Chile

Question 8

- Tokelau and Chatham Islands are among the possessions of ________ in the Pacific Ocean.

A) New Zealand
B) the United States
C) the United Kingdom
D) Chile

Question 9

- Between New Zealand and Australia lies the:

A) Marianas Trench
B) Tasman Sea
C) Great Australian Bight
D) Nazca Plate

Question 10

The Great Dividing Range runs along Australia's ________ coast.

A) northern
B) southern
C) eastern
D) western

Question 11

- ________ separates Tasmania from mainland Australia.

A) Bass Strait
B) Gulf of Carpentaria
C) Coral Sea
D) Strait of Malacca

Question 12

-Darling and Murray Rivers originate in the:

A) Outback
B) Great Victoria Desert
C) Great Dividing Range
D) Annamese Cordillera

Question 13

- Challenger Deep is deepest ocean trench and is found 250 miles southwest of Guam at the border of the ________ and ________ Plates.

A) Australian; Tokyo
B) Pacific; Nazca
C) Eurasian; North American
D) Philippine; Pacific

Question 14

Society Islands and Marquesas Islands are part of:

A) French Polynesia
B) Philippines
C) Nauru
D) New Zealand

Question 15

- Australia's tropical rainy climate is found in the:

A) north
B) west
C) south
D) none of these

Question 16

-Australia's tropical wet and dry climate is found in the:

A) north
B) west
C) south
D) none of these

Question 17

-Dry summer subtropical climate is typical for the Australian cities of Melbourne, Adelaide, and:

A) Brisbane
B) Sydney
C) Canberra
D) Perth

Question 18

Australian Outback is:

A) rainforest
B) desert
C) deciduous forest
D) Mediterranean scrub

Question 19

-The climate most typical of Alice Springs, Australia is:

A) tropical rainy
B) desert
C) tropical wet and dry
D) Mediterranean

Question 20

- Darwin lies in the ________ climate zone.

A) tropical wet and dry
B) tropical rainy
C) desert
D) Mediterranean

Question 21

La Niña (Spanish: the little girl) occurs when cold water intensifies, bringing dry weather and:

A) more fish
B) larger apple harvests
C) suicides
D) locusts

Question 22

Among unique marsupials (animals with a pouch to carry their young) of the region are kangaroos, wombats, and:

A) dingo
B) manatee
C) Tasmanian devil
D) white tail deer

Question 23

Kimberly Plateau is found in ________ Australia.

A) eastern
B) southwestern
C) southern
D) northern

Question 24

About ________% of the Great Barrier Reef is healthy coral.

A) 10
B) 20
C) 35
D) 50

Question 25

________ have resulted in mass coral bleaching and ocean acidification (due to absorption of excess CO₂), which destroy the coral in the Great Barrier Reef.

A) Too many divers and tourists
B) Rising sea temperatures
C) Bleach spilled from tankers off Australia's coast
D) Oil spilled from tankers in the Coral Sea

Question 26

Population density is greatest in Western Australia around:

A) Perth
B) Sydney
C) Darwin
D) Adelaide

Question 27

Population density is greatest in Queensland around:

A) Perth
B) Brisbane
C) Sydney
D) Canberra

Question 28

Population density is greatest in South Island, NZ around cities such as Blenheim, Dunedin, and:

A) Aukland
B) Wellington
C) Christchurch
D) Sydney

Question 29

About 80 percent of the population lives within ________ mile(s) of Australia's coast.

A) 1
B) 5
C) 12
D) 20

Question 30

More than ________ percent of Australia's exports now go to Asia; only ________ percent are shipped to Europe.

A) 20; 25
B) 50; 1
C) 99; 1
D) 60; 11

Question 31

After many years of planning, trains could travel all the way from Adelaide to Darwin in ________, reducing the isolation of the Northern Territory capital and the towns along the rails.

A) 1888
B) 1913
C) 1945
D) 2001

Question 32

Some ________ percent of Australia's population lives in urban areas.

A) 55
B) 62
C) 71
D) 89

Question 33

About ________ percent of Australia's agricultural land is used for food crops, with a further ________ percent devoted to profitable dairying herds grazing on improved pastures and grasses.

A) 5; 5
B) 11; 15
C) 22; 3
D) 6; 50

Question 34

In total about ________ percent of Australia-to the north, east, and west of the arid interior-now has ranching as its major economic use.

A) 3
B) 22
C) 40
D) 67

Question 35

Rutile is used in the production of titanium. Australia accounts for about ________% of the world's supply of rutile.

A) 20
B) 40
C) 55
D) 70

Question 36

Australia accounts for over ________% of the world's iron ore.

A) 25
B) 33
C) 55
D) 74

Question 37

Australia accounts for over ________% of the world's alumina.

A) 20
B) 40
C) 60
D) 80

Question 38

________ households are Australia households in which the wage earner generates income from an Asian (often the Chinese) economy and travels there frequently on business.

A) "Slanty"
B) "Yellow"
C) "Astronaut"
D) "Walk-about"

Question 39

The primary petroleum deposits in Australia occur:

A) in the interior near Alice Springs
B) in Sydney harbor
C) off the northwest coast
D) on the island of Tasmania

Question 40

Intensive commercial farming is closely connected to ________ cities in Australia.

A) coastal
B) interior
C) tropical climate
D) desert climate

Question 41

Among the top ten countries from which Australia imports the most are China, USA, and:

A) Canada
B) Chile
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Singapore

Question 42

Among the top ten countries to which Australia exports the most are China, Japan, and:

A) Canada
B) Chile
C) Saudi Arabia
D) United Kingdom

Question 43

Exports to the United Kingdom from New Zealand declined 75% due to UK's:

A) membership in the European Union
B) Falklands War
C) severing of diplomatic relations
D) preferential treatment of Australia

Question 44

Approximately ________ percent of New Zealanders say they have European origins.

A) 10
B) 99
C) 50
D) 68

Question 45

The vast realm of Pacific islands is often called:

A) the Gilliland realm
B) Haystack Islands
C) Oceania
D) Polynesia-Remote

Question 46

Of the three Pacific island groupings, the one covering the largest land/ocean area is:

A) Micronesia
B) Melanesia
C) Polynesia
D) They are all about the same.

Question 47

The number of Australian Aborigines before the arrival of Europeans is unknown but thought to have been 6 million people.

Question 48

New Zealand was one of the first countries in the Pacific to be settled, first by eastern Polynesians who came by ocean-going canoes (waka) in separate voyages between 1250 and 1300 BC.

Question 49

In countries such as Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands, life expectancy is high, use of modern birth control is widespread, the birth rate is low, and children under 15 make up 20 percent or less of the population.

Question 50

New Zealand is dominated by Marine west coast climate.

Question 51

The only country that sits atop the Fiji Plate in the Pacific Ocean is Fiji.

Question 52

El Niño (Spanish: the little boy) is caused by a warming of the ocean in the eastern Pacific which brings heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, but reduces fish.

Question 53

Due to proximity to the Equator, no part of region has glaciers.

Question 54

Only part of Australia with greater than 60 inches of annual rainfall is in the north, near the Equator.

Question 55

Rainfall exceeds 80 inches per year on New Zealand's southern coast.

Question 56

No city in New Zealand has a population of more than one million.

Question 57

Australia's urban dominance is declining due to excellent agricultural and mining opportunities.

Question 58

Western Australia has two cities greater than 2 million: Perth and Broome.

Question 59

The largest cities in Australia are Sydney and Canberra.

Question 60

No city on the northern coast of Australia has a population of more than one million.

Question 61

Northern Australia is dominated by hunting and gathering.

Question 62

Major precious metal deposits in NZ include platinum and palladium.

Question 63

Major precious metal deposits in Tasmania include gold and silver.

Question 64

New Zealand's major coal deposits are found on the South Island.

Question 65

Commercial grain farming in Australia falls primarily in the southeast and southwest.

Question 66

More than a quarter of working age Mãori are on welfare.

Question 67

New Zealand has one of the world's highest proportions of livestock (cattle and sheep) to human population-a ratio of 2 to 1.

Question 68

Of the territories in Melanesia, the only one lacking full independence is New Caledonia.

Question 69

Of the territories in Micronesia, the only one lacking full independence is Palau.

Question 70

Of the territories in Polynesia, one of the few with full independence is Tonga.

Question 71

The Micronesian territory with the largest population is the independent country of Nauru.

Question 72

Evaluate how William Buckley (1780-1856) illustrates the interaction of the British and Australian Aborigines.

Question 73

Predict which environmental issue provides the most challenges for Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

Question 74

Evaluate whether human or natural systems pose the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef.

Question 75

Explain how physical geography plays an important role in the distribution of Australia's population.

Question 76

Assess the White Only Policy.

Question 77

Evaluate the economic challenges of Western Australia's mineral extraction industries.

Question 78

Predict the future development of Australia's Aborigines.

Question 79

Develop a plan for opening a single new coal mine in Australia for export. Where would you open the mine? What challenges would you face?

Question 80

Assess the coal mining and natural gas industries' effects on the environment.