Oceania Flashcards
Southern Alps
A mountain chain in New Zealand
Great dividing range
A range of low mountains in Australia
Geyser
A hot spring that shoots sprays of steam and boiling water into the air
Outback
The interior region of Australia
Uluru
A spectacular rock outcropping in the Australian outback
Great Barrier Reef
A 1,250 mile chain of coral reefs off the coast of Australia
Marsupial
An animal with an abdominal pouch to carry its young
Outcropping
Bedrock that rises above the soil
Draft animal
An animal used to pull a heavy load
James cook
A British explorer who claimed to land in Australia
Aborigine
An original inhabitant of Australia
Penal colony
A settlement that serves as a prison
Charles Perkins
An aboriginal rights leader
Mechanized
Equipped with machines
Hunter gatherer
A person who hunts animals and gathers plants for food
Constitutional monarchy
A government in which the powers of the king or queen are limited by a constitution
Maori
Polynesian people who were the first inhabitants of New Zealand
Treaty of Waitangi
A treaty between the British and the Maori signed in 1840
Pakeha
A Maori word that means “white people”
Hydroelectric power
Electricity produced by moving water
Geothermal energy
Power produced by the internal heat of the earth
Oceania
The region of the Pacific Ocean with thousands of islands
Melanesia
A subregion of Oceania that includes islands of northeast of Australia and south of the equator
Micronesia
A subregion of Oceania that includes islands east of the Philippines and north of the equator
Polynesia
A subregion of Oceania that includes islands of the central and southern pacific
Oceanic island
An island rising from the deep sea floor on a volcanic foundation
Coral island
A type of oceanic island that is a coral reef
Atoll
A ring shaped coral reef encircling a central lagoon with no inner island
Trust territory
A territory placed under the control of a country by the United Nations
Pidgin
A simple form of speech that is a mixture of words from two or more languages
Transantartic mountains
Mountains that divide Antarctica into two parts
Geographic South Pole
The point where all lines of longitude meet
Icecap
A glacier that covers a large area
Antarctic peninsula
An S shaped peninsula that is part of the Andes mountain chain
Ice shelf
Huge flat sheet of ice extending over the ocean, but attached to the land
Iceberg
A large piece of floating ice
Robert Scott
A British polar explorer
Ronald Amundsen
Norwegian polar explorer who was first to reach the South Pole
Antarctic treaty
An agreement signed in 1959 calling for the peaceful use of Antarctica
Ozone hole
The seasonal thinning of a protective layer of atmospheric gas high above Antarctica
