Social studies

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Removal of aboriginal ______ from their families

Children

Rocky organic material off Australia's coast

Coral reef

Where do most people live in New Zealand?

North Island

Smaller, often an atoll, Thin oil, coconut trees.

Low islands

What are New Zealand's first settlers called

Marori

Highest population

Melanesia

Stretches from New Guinea to Fiji

Melanesia

Has 2000+ islands?

Micronesia

Is East of the Philippines?

Micronesia

Australia's climates

Mostly steppe (grassland), and desert

What is in the central area of Australia

Outback mining

How many statues are on Easter Island

Over 600

Protects earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays

Ozone layer

Cooks discoveries prepared the way for establishment of a new _____?

Penal colony.

Most of Anartica's climate is?

Polar desert

____ affects the thinning of the earth's ozone layer?

Pollution

Largest region and includes Tahiti and Hawaii

Polynesia

And article has no permanent ______?

Population

Polar desert has has very little?

Precipitation

South Island is located in the?

Southern Alps

What were the aborigines known as

Stolen generation

France with many other countries, finally signed the ______to stop testing nuclear weapons.

Treaty

Banned military activity to promote scientific research

Treaty of 1959

What is the name of the huge plateau in Australia?

Uluru/Ayers

Uluru is located on what side of Australia?

West side

The great barrier reef off of Australia is the largest coral reef in the _____?

World

The Kiwi _____ is New Zealand's national ______?

Bird/symbol

How long is the great barrier reef in Australia?

1250 miles

Did transportation of civics to the colony of New South Wales ceased in _____after a campaign by the settlers.

1848

What were the dates US and Britain testing nuclear weapons On atolls

1940's-1960's

France continued testing nuclear weapons from the ____ to the ____?

1960's-1990's

India and Pakistan both tested nuclear weapons in _____ and refused to sign the _____?

1998/treaty

Aborigines were around ______ _____?

40,000+ years

When were the aborigines around?

42,000- 48,000 years ago.

Coral island with a lagoon

Atoll

US and Britain tested nuclear weapons on _____ in Micronesia and Polynesian for about __ years!

Atolls/20

What are the North Island people called

Auckland

Only native land mammal of New Zealand is a ______?

Bat

Where did the aborigines come from?

From what is now South-East Asia.

In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and cleaned for ______?

Great Britain

Volcanoes,mountains, Forest, rich soil. (pollution maybe thinning it)

High islands

Form along the coast of Antarctica?

Ice shelves

Icebergs break off of an _____ and float in the water.

Iceshelf

All countries have signed the Treaty to stop testing nuclear weapons except _____and _____?

India, Pakistan

New Zealand is a major producer of _____?

Kiwi

Two of Australia's animals

Koalas and kangaroos


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