Chapter 6, geography

Question 1

who discovered islands across the Pacific and became the first man known to sail below the Antarctic Circle?

Answer 1

Captain James Cook

Question 2

what is the world’s smallest continent?

Answer 2

Australia

Question 3

what is the thousands of islands scattered across the Pacific?

Answer 3

Oceania

Question 4

what is the geological feature known as a shield that occupies more than half of the continent of Australia?

Answer 4

Australian Shield

Question 5

what are the deserts in australia?

Answer 5

gibson, great sandy, and the great victoria deserts

Question 6

what is named for its complete lack of trees?

Answer 6

Nullarbor Plain

Question 7

what is the huge monolith (large single rock), that measures over 1,000 feet high and nearly 6 miles around and glows red in the sunset?

Answer 7

Uluru

Question 8

what is Australia’s longest river?

Answer 8

Murray

Question 9

what is the Murray’s chief tributary?

Answer 9

Darling

Question 10

what is the continent’s largest lake?

Answer 10

Lake Eyre

Question 11

what splits Australia into two separate drainage systems?

Answer 11

continental divide

Question 12

what is the continent’s highest peak?

Answer 12

Mount Kosciuszko

Question 13

what is the large island west of the tasman sea?

Answer 13

Tasmania

Question 14

what are the three main topographical regions?

Answer 14

Western Plateau, Central Lowlands, Eastern Highlands

Question 15

what is one of the continent’s unique egg-laying mammals?

Answer 15

The duck-billed platypus

Question 16

who are the native inhabitants of Australia?

Answer 16

Aborigines

Question 17

what is the name for australia because australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, “below” almost all other countries?

Answer 17

land down under

Question 18

what is the Indian Ocean borders the west coast and fills the continent’s southern arch (wide bay)?

Answer 18

Great Australian Bight

Question 19

who explored the surrounding waters and discovered Van Diemen’s Land?

Answer 19

Abel Tasman

Question 20

what Is australia’s capital?

Answer 20

Canberra

Question 21

who charted the entire coastline, thereby establishing that the land was a continent?

Answer 21

Matthew Flinders

Question 22

what was the event where gold was discovered in New South Wales and Victoria, Prospectors from around the world came with dreams of striking it rich

Answer 22

Australian Gold Rush

Question 23

what is the capital of Victoria?

Answer 23

Melbourne

Question 24

what is Tasmania’s capital and Australia’s most southerly city

Answer 24

Hobart

Question 25

what are genuine Australians?

Answer 25

Aussies

Question 26

what is the Australian slang or dialect?

Answer 26

Strine

Question 27

what is the more than 1,200-mile-long reef off the east coast

Answer 27

Great Barrier Reef

Question 28

Oceania- region of the Pacific Ocean, sprawls across millions of miles of the earth’s surface, yet the islands of this area cover only about 312,000 square miles

Question 29

John G. Paton- brought worldwide attention to the needy natives

Question 30

continental islands- located along the Pacific Rim, were once connected to the continents of Asia and Australia

Question 31

Atolls- groupings of tiny coral islands

Question 32

South Seas- designates the water south of the equator, which is often called the South Pacific Ocean

Question 33

Polynesia- “many islands,” covers a large, triangular area from New Zealand in the south to Hawaii in the north to Easter Island in the east

Question 34

Melanesia- most populous of the regions and is inhabited by short, dark-skinned Melanesians, most of whom live in Papua New Guinea