Ch 14, Oceania

Question 1

Aborigines

Answer 1

An indigenous inhabitant of Australia

Question 2

Atoll

Answer 2

A low, sandy island made from coral. Often oriented around a central Lagoon.

Question 3

Austronesian

Answer 3

Language family that encompasses wide expenses of the Pacific, insular Southeast Asia, and Madagascar.

Question 4

Haoles

Answer 4

Light skinned Europeans or US citizens in the Hawaiian islands.

Question 5

Intercropping

Answer 5

The practice of planting multiple crops in the same field.

Question 6

Kanakas

Answer 6

Malaysian agricultural workers imported to Australia, historically concentrated along Queensland’s “sugar coast.”

Question 7

Mallees

Answer 7

A tough and scrubby eucalyptus wood land of limited economic value that is common across portions of interior Australia.

Question 8

Maori

Answer 8

Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

Question 9

Microstates

Answer 9

Usually independent states that are small in both area and population.

Pretty reliant on the state that colonized them because they’re so small.

Question 10

Outback

Answer 10

Australia’s large, generally dry, and thinly settled interior.

Desert

Question 11

Pidgin English (pijin)

Answer 11

A version of English that also incorporates elements of other local languages, often utilized to foster trade in basic communication between different culture groups.

Question 12

White Australian policy

Answer 12

Before 1973, a set of stringent Australian limitations on non-white immigration to the country. It has been largely replaced by a more flexible policy today.