Ch 24 Australia

Question 1

Easter Island is part of the subregion

Answer 1

Polynesia

Question 2

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

Answer 2

have small populations

Question 3

The early Aborigines were

Answer 3

nomadic hunter-gatherers

Question 4

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

Answer 4

British colonists discovered gold

Question 5

What group in Maori society was at the lowest level?

Answer 5

Slaves

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Australia’s environment is the

Answer 7

driest inhabited continent

Question 8

Australia is governed by its parliament and an individual chosen by the parliament, who is know as the

Answer 8

governor

Question 9

What divides Antarctica into two regions?

Answer 9

The Transantarctic Mountians

Question 10

What plants grow in the Antarctic climate?

Answer 10

algae and mosses