part 1

Question 1

___ is the smallest and only single-nation continent in the world.

Answer 1

Australia

Question 2

Australia is located entirely ___ of the equator.

Answer 2

south

Question 3

Australia’s National Holiday is ___.

Answer 3

Australia Day

Question 4

___ is Australia’s National Anthem.

Answer 4

Advance Australia Fair

Question 5

The ruler of Great Britain is the official Head of State in Australia

Answer 5

T

Question 6

The majority of the continent of Australia is Tropical Savanna.

Answer 6

F

Question 7

Because Australia is an Island, its climate is more unstable than the climate of other continents.

Answer 7

F

Question 8

Australia experiences droughts, floods, and cyclones each year

Answer 8

T

Question 9

Australia has ___ states, They are _________

Answer 9

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia

Question 10

Australia has ____ territories. They are _______

Answer 10

Australian Capitol Territory and the Northern Territory

Question 11

___ was Australia’s first major industry.

Answer 11

Agriculture

Question 12

Australia is the world’s largest producer of ___.

Answer 12

Wool

Question 13

During ___, Australia was cut off from Britain and had to produce many of its own manufactured goods.

Answer 13

WWl

Question 14

Australia’s most famous native animal is the ___.

Answer 14

kangaroo

Question 15

Australia has limited mineral resources.

Answer 15

F

Question 16

Australia is the worlds largest exporter of gold.

Answer 16

F

Question 17

In 1872, Benhard Otto Holtermann found a 630 pound mass of gold in New South Wales.

Answer 17

T

Question 18

When Europeans settled in Australia, they brought many species of animals that overpopulated and endangered Australia’s ecology an native species of animals.

Answer 18

T

Question 19

Australia is home to the world’s only egg-laying mammals, the ___ and the ___.

Answer 19

duck-billed platypus and the echiclna

Question 20

Australia’s marsupials include the following 5 marsupials:

Answer 20

Bandicoots, Koalas, Wombats, Tasmanian Devils, Kangaroo

Question 21

Australia’s interior region is called the ___.

Answer 21

Outback

Question 22

The ___ is one of Australia’s most important trees and is used for making paper products, medicines, and soaps

Answer 22

eucalyptus

Question 23

The first people to live in what is now Australia were the ___ who arrived over 40,000 years ago.

Answer 23

Aborigines

Question 24

Australia was oficially adopted as the name of the continent in ___.

Answer 24

1817

Question 25

About 50% of Australia’s land is suitable for growing crops.

Answer 25

F

Question 26

James Cook landed on Australia in 1770 and claimed the land for Britain

Answer 26

T

Question 27

Many of the first settlers were British prisoners placed in work camps or prisons

Answer 27

T

Question 28

Dutch is the official language of Australia

Answer 28

F

Question 29

Today, Aborigines account for ___ percent of Australia’s population .

Answer 29

2.5

Question 30

A ___ is a carved item, usually made of wood, which returns to its starting point when thrown correctly.

Answer 30

boomerang

Question 31

The discovery of ___ in 1851 spurred an increase in Australia’s population.

Answer 31

gold

Question 32

In 1973, ___, a policy that limited the immigration of non-whites, was discarded.

Answer 32

White Australia

Question 33

In 2000, Australia served as the host for the ___, held in Sydney.

Answer 33

Summer Olympics

Question 34

___ was founded in 1836 and was named for the wife of King William IV of England.

Answer 34

Adelaide

Question 35

Dirk Hartog was the first European to have reached Australia

Answer 35

T

Question 36

Melbourne, the capital of New South Wales, is the largest and oldest city in Australia

Answer 36

F

Question 37

Canberra became Australia’s national capital in 1927

Answer 37

T

Question 38

The largest and most populated Australian island is Cartier Island

Answer 38

F

Question 39

In 1787, eleven ships carrying ___ passengers, invluding ___ convicts sailed from England to Australia

Answer 39

1450, 736

Question 40

On January 1, 1901, the ___ was established, giving power to a publicly-elected legislature although the British monarch was the symbolic ruler of the land.

Answer 40

Commonwealth of Australia

Question 41

___ and ___ are the two Australian cities that began as settlements for convicts.

Answer 41

Sydney, Brisbane

Question 42

The Japanese occupied ____ during WWll

Answer 42

Christmas Island