Oceania Vocabulary
Great Sandy Desert
(Western Australia; 140,000 sq. mi.) Part of the Western Desert, and the ninth largest in the world.
Soloman Islands
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service sector employs more than_percent of people in Austrailia and New Zealand
70
pidgin language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
Bass Strait
A narrow passage in between Tasmania and Victoria.
Melanesia
A region in Oceania meaning "black islands"
Great Dividing Range
A series of Plateaus and mountain ranges in eastern Australia.
Torres Strait
A strait between north-eastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea.
Gulf of Carpentaria
A wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia.
Papua New Guinea
An island country in the Southwest Pacific, the eastern half of New Guinea
Where did the earliest settlers of Oceania Come from?
Asia
Murray River
Australia's longest river flowing year-round
Who settelled Oceania?
Britian
Late 1700's
British settlers arrived, bringing sheep and profiting from gold and often forcing Aborigines and Maori from their lands
New South Wales
Colony established on Australia by Captain James Cook of mainly convicts who supported themselves through sheep herding
high islands
Common in Melanesia
Low Islands (Atolls)
Common in Micronesia & Polynesia
Small Islands Economy
Dependant on trade for food and fuel, use canoes to travel between islands
Low Islands (Atolls)
Encircling lagoons, the islands have few barriers and have developed more uniform cultures.
What empires claimed Oceania island before WWII?
Europe and Japan
Penal Colony of Australia
Great Britian sent their prisoners to settle Austrailia
hills and mountains that divide Austrailia
Great Dividing Range.
Mt. Cook
Highest mountains in the southern alps (New Zealand)
Oceania consists of what three island groups?
Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
began as hunters and gatherers that eventually domesticated root crops, sugarcane, and pigs, and were connected by language
Melanesian
peoples differ greatly, even among people living on the same island
Melanesian
small islands
Micronesia
Micronesia
Migrants from Southeast Asia and Melanesia settled here and it is now densely populated
Early settlers were subsistence farmers
Polynesia
Hawaii belongs to what group of Islands ?
Polynesia
Inhabitants share a similar language and culture.
Polynesia
Samoan Islands are the most densely populated of Islands of this Island group
Polynesia
Maori people
Polynesian people that settled in New Zealand
The Low Islands only water source?
Rain
Darling River
River located in the northern part of New South Wales.
Commonwealth of Australia
Self-governing dominion within the British Empire established in 1901,
Tasman Sea
Tasman Sea
North Island
The Northern Island of New Zealand
deforestation
The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves and leads to soil erosion, soil salinity, and greater risks of fires and flooding.
Low Islands (Atolls)
The ring-shaped low islands were formed as coral reefs built up on the rims of submerged volcanoes.
the Outback
The sparsely populated Western Plateau covers nearly two-thirds of the continent and is made up of deserts
UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Oceania
a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
Central Lowlands
a region of arid grasslands and deserts that separates the great dividing range and the western plateau
Great Australian Bight
a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia
Aborigines of Australia
arrived by sea as early as 50,000 years ago from Southeast Asia, Australia's earliest inhabitants
Melanesia
black islands"
Clearing land for farming and grazing has caused
deforestation
Great Barrier Reef and other corals reefs
endangered due to toxic waste, as well as tourists, boaters, divers, oil shale mining, and rising water temperatures
high islands
feature mountain ranges divided by valleys and experience earthquakes and volcanoes, Settlement was based on landforms
How were the islands were formed?
from tectonic plates colliding and others by volcanic activity
orographic rainfall
high islands, warm air rises, cools, and condenses
Great Victoria Desert
is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.
Montremes
mammals that lay eggs
Polynesia
many islands
Polynesia
one of three regions in Oceania, meaning "many islands"
low islands vegetation
shrubs and grass
Micronesia
small islands
Australia
smallest continent
Great Barrier Reef
the largest coral reef in the world
Great Artesian Basin
the world's largest reserve of underground water; it is under pressure so that water rises to the surface when wells are bored; located in central Australia
About 85 percent of New Zealand's population lives in
urban areas on the coast
Mt. Wilhelm
world's highest island peak
