Australia/Antarctica

1.       Easter Island is part of the sub region

• Melanesia

• Micronesia

• Polynesia

Since most of the Pacific’s low islands have poor soil and few minerals or energy resources, they

• Have relatively large populations

• Have relatively small populations

• Produce bananas

• Are mainly urban centers

The early Aborigines were

• Settled farmers

• Settled herders

• Nomadic hunter-gatherers

• Nomadic fisherman

In the mid-1800s, what event played a part in the large increase in British immigration to Australia?

• Aborigines moved to the outback

• British colonists discovered gold

• British colonists were allowed to adopt Aboriginal children.

• Captain James Cook described the excellent ranch lands available

In the early 1900s, who controlled most of the Pacific islands?

• The island nations, which set up independent governments in the Pacific

• France, Spain, Great Britain, Japan, and the U.S., which claimed Pacific colonies

• The descendants of Australia’s prison colony, who conquered the Pacific islands

• The Maori, who spread from New Zealand and the Cook Islands to the rest of the Pacific

A significant aspect of Australia’s environment is that Australia is the

• Driest inhabited continent

• Largest continent in the Pacific

• Planet’s most isolated continent

• Continent with the most animal species

Australia is governed by its Parliament and an individual chosen by the Parliament, who is known as the

• Monarch

• Governor

• President

• Prime Minister

What divides Antarctica into two regions?

• The Ross Sea

• The Antarctic Peninsula

• The Weddell Sea

• The Transantarctic Mountains

What forms icebergs?

• Blocks of packed ice that fall into the sea

• Pieces of glaciers that fall off into the sea

• Ocean water that freezes

• Heavy snowfall that freezes

According to the Antarctic Treaty, Antarctica is set aside

• For the exclusive use of the United States

• So that no more humans will ever set foot there

• To house a series of refueling stations for ships sailing from South America

• For scientific research and other peaceful uses