Geography Chap 23
Easter Island belongs to what country
Chile
ESSAY: Contrast Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
Melanesia is composed of continental islands. The inhabitants are short and black-skinned. Europeans visited these remote islands last. Micronesia is made up of smaller islands. These islands are atolls, formed by coral. Since the islands have poor soil, the inhabitants rely on fishing for survival. These islands have little elevations. The people who live in Micronesia are taller and lighter-skinned than those in Melanesia. The islands of Polynesia developed from volcanoes. Their soil is rich and their elevation, unlike Micronesia's, is high. The inhabitants have lighter skin and wavier hair than people elsewhere in the Pacific Islands.
Niue and the Cook Islands belong to what country
New Zealand
capital of Micronesia
Palikir
capital of French Polynesia
Papeete
which island's history includes stories of the HMS Bounty
Pitcairn Island
Papua New Guinea capital
Port Moresby
capital of Vanuatu
Port-Vila
capital of Fiji
Suva
the name given to the Hawaiian Islands at the time of their discovery
The Sandwich Islands
Alvaro de Mendana discovered which islands in 1568, named them after a Bible character
The Solomon Islands
Guam, Wake Island, and the Midway Islands belong to what country
The United States
acceptance and adoption of a foreign people's values and lifestyles
acculturation
Melanesian groups that worship the people or transportation methods responsible for bringing them the material goods of the Western world are called
cargo cults
dried coconut meat is called
copra
framed houses that have a thatched roof and open sides
fales
All of the islands of the Pacific became independent following World War 2
false
Cannibals on the Pacific Islands were only legends told by imaginative sailors, not a reality of Oceania
false
Tropical rainforests cover only a small percentage of Papua New Guinea
false
"pacific" means
peaceful
the French used New Caledonia from 1853-1894 as
penal colony
a potato like root
taro
this island is twenty-six hundred miles off the coast of Chile and has rows of mysterious stone heads
Easter
first European to chart the Pacific ocean was
Ferdinand Magellan
island has been called "the crossroads of the South Pacific"
Fiji
New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna belong to what country
France
Pitcairn Island belongs to what country
Great Britain
worlds largest atoll
Kwajalein
largest of the Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
largest Mariana Island
Guam
capital of Solomon Islands
Honiara
What two countries make up New Guinea
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
discovered both New Caledonia and the islands later known as Hawaii
James Cook
capital of Palau
Koror
B-29s that dropped the first atomic bombs took off from which Mariana Island
Tinian
American Marines fought some of the fiercest battles of WWII on some of the Pacific islands
true
The island of Guadalcanal was the site of one of the earliest U.S, offensives of WWII
true
more people live in Papua New Guinea than in all the other Pacific Islands combined
true
the 25,000 islands that are scattered across the Pacific Ocean have less combined land area than the state of Alaska
true
the island of Papua New Guinea is divided into two separate countries
true
