SS - Ch 11 - Quiz Hist. and Cultural Geo: S Pacific, Australia
Samoan
is a Polynesian language.
Austronesian languages - It is one of the world's largest
language families (not including many languages spoken in Australia and New Guinea).
characteristics that could make Vanuatu a Third World country
limited unemployment opportunities poverty environmental changes
In what century was the South Pole ultimately mapped?
19th
Oceanic peoples made more interisland contact than peoples of _________, but less than other civilizations of the __________.
Australia; Eastern Hemisphere
The Austronesian languages are divided into two branches:
Indonesian and Oceanic
The seven most closely related Micronesian languages form a subgroup called
Nuclear Micronesian.
Which of the following events happened first?
People of New Guinea and the Torres Strait turned to agriculture and pig farming.
The Oceanic branch's languages fall into three groups
Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian.
The original form of most Austronesian languages has been traced to a_________ language that was spoken about 4,000 years ago.
Proto-Oceanic
Austronesian languages - Its original form is traced to a
Proto-Oceanic language spoken 4,000 years ago.
By 3000 B.C.E., traders from _________ visited the northern coasts of New Guinea. Some of them settled there, while others continued exploring and establishing communities in Pacific archipelagos.
Southeast Asia
countries colonized the South Pacific and Australia
Spain Germany Great Britain
Which of the following defines a postfigurative culture?
a culture in which children learn from their forebears
Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?
along the northeastern coast of Australia
Austronesian languages - It is divided into two branches:
an Indonesian (or Western) branch and an Oceanic (or Eastern) branch.
Exploration such as the voyages of Captain James Cook can be seen as the precursor to
colonization.
The following are considered a result of European contact with Oceania
destabilization of the Maori the forced relocation of Australian aboriginals to government agencies the arrival of rabbits to Australia
Quality of life surveys often rank Sydney
high compared to other cities.
Australia's aboriginals had nomadic foraging societies. What might be another term for "nomadic foraging"?
hunter-gatherer
forbidden by the Madrid Protocol
mining drilling most nonscientific activities
the Antarctic Treaty...
overlaps some foreign territories.
Which of the following best defines the religious structures of most Oceanic islands prior to contact with foreigners?
polytheistic
A large majority of those who live in the outback are
the indigenous population.
