Pacific Realm Physical Geography

Pacific Realm Physical

Geography

Vocabulary

●Coral Reef - Collection of rocky material found in shallow, tropical waters

●Atoll - Small, ring-shaped coral island that surrounds a lagoon

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is a ring shaped coral island that surrounds a lagoon.

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coral reef

Australia

●Country that covers an entire continent

●Western half is a large, dry plateau known as The Outback

○Home to Uluru, a large sandstone formation that is important in Aborigines culture

●The Great Barrier Reef is off the northeast coast

○Home to the world’s largest coral reef, which in turn is home to diverse marine wildlife

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is the world's largest coral reef located off the northeastern coast of Australia.

Australia Climate

●The eastern region of Australia is temperate, with moderate rainfall good for
growing crops and raising animals .

●The western region of Australia, or the outback, is arid, with little rainfall and
sparse vegetation.

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of Australia due to the sparse vegetation and hot, dry climate

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Uluru

Great Barrier Reef

New Zealand

●Two main islands, North Island and
South Island, make up New
Zealand

●It is located 1000 miles to the
southeast of Australia

●Geographically diverse nation with
coasts, glaciers and volcanoes

New Zealand Mountains and Volcanoes

New Zealand Coasts

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landscape, seen through its coasts, forests, mountains, glaciers, and volcanoes.

Pacific Islands - Regions

●Micronesia - many small islands located just east of the Philippines

●Melanesia - Heavily populated region that stretches from New Guinea to Fiji

●Polynesia - Largest geographic region of the Pacific Islands

○Contains islands of Hawaii and Samoa

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is the most populated region of Pacific Islands, ​

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is made up of many small islands, and ​

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is the largest region geographically

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Melanesia

Micronesia

Polynesia

Pacific Islands Geographic Features

●There are many atolls, or ring shaped coral islands with lagoons, or saltwater
bodies of water, in the middle.

●The Pacific Islands also have many volcanic islands, islands created by
volcanoes.

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Climate and Resources of the Pacific Islands

●Basically all islands in the Pacific Islands are tropical with rain all year and
warm temperatures

○Some exceptions are the mountains on the island of Papua New Guinea which have a cool
highland climate and rainy and dry seasons

●Two classifications for resources - low islands and high islands

○Low Islands have few resources and poor soil for farming

○High islands have many resources with good soil for farming