Test 4 Study Guide - Austrailia and Antartica

Question 1

What is Australia’s largest natural lake?

Answer 1

Lake Eyre

Question 2

What 1200 mile long reef lies off Australia’s eastern coast?

Answer 2

Great Barrier Reef

Question 3

What is the capital of New South Wales?

Answer 3

Sydney

Question 4

What is the capital of Tasmania?

Answer 4

Hobart

Question 5

What is Australia’s highest peak?

Answer 5

Mt. Kosciusko

Question 6

What is Australia’s longest permanent river?

Answer 6

Murray River

Question 7

What is Australia’s largest region?

Answer 7

Australian Shield

Question 8

What is the name that Australia is often called?

Answer 8

“The Land Down Under”

Question 9

What are the native inhabitants of Australia called?

Answer 9

Aborigines

Question 10

What 1851 event caused the population of Australia to increase by 200%

Answer 10

Australian Gold Rush

Question 11

What is the world’s biggest natural structure formed by living things?

Answer 11

Great Barrier Reef

Question 12

What are the names of New Zealand’s two main islands?

Answer 12

North Island and South Island

Question 13

What is the biggest suburban area in the world?

Answer 13

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Question 14

What body of water separates New Zealand’s main islands?

Answer 14

Cook Strait

Question 15

Who were the two men who led the first expeditions to the South Pole?

Answer 15

Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott

Question 16

What is the lowest point on earth?

Answer 16

Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench