Australia and New Zealand

Australia's largely dry desert land forces a reliance on

• mineral resources

• trade

• tourism

Which sit on the rims of underwater volcanoes?

• Atolls

• Caldera

• Lagoons

Australia's isolation for thousands of years has resulted in

• a unique plant and animal life.

• a hidden race of super humans.

• little life surviving on the continent.

What group walked across exposed continental shelves to get to Australia?

• The Maori

• The English

• The Aborigines

• The Dutch

A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh food or water.

• Pilgrim

• Colonizer

• Indigenous person

• Nomad

The English used Australia as a penal colony to relieve their overcrowded British prisons.

• True

• False

After settlement, the English raised sheep for cotton in Australia.

• True

• False

The British found and mined gold in Australia.

• True

• False

Because so much of the land is dry desert, most Australians live

• near ocean coasts.

• in mountains.

• near rivers.

• near lakes.

The Stolen Generation of Australia were

• Aboriginal children forced to attend English schools and foster homes.

• disillusioned American artists.

• enslaved Aborigines forced to work on plantations.