GEOG 200 AUST, NEW ZEAL, ANTARCTICA AND PACIFIC
About ___ percent of Australians live in cities or towns.
90
Native Australians are known as:
Aboriginals
The finger of land extending from the main body of Antarctica toward South America is known as the ____________________.
Antarctic Peninsula
Prior to independence, New Guinea was administered by:
Australia
Which country temporarily withdrew from UNCLOS as an indirect result of the independence of East Timor?
Australia
The Australian capital city is:
Canberra
The city that centers the Australian Capital Territory is ______________.
Canberra
The chief farming region of New Zealand s South Island is the ________________ Plain.
Canterbury
Australia s top customer for its goods is ____________.
China
Australia s newest neighbor, which successfully seceded from Indonesia and became independent in 2002, is _______________.
East Timor
The UNCLOS allows states to claim all resources within a(n) _____________ that extends up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts.
Exclusive Economic Zone
Australia currently does not permit the immigration of people who do not have European ancestry.
False
Australia s plants and animals are closely related to those of Africa.
False
Biogeography is divided into the fields of climatology and geomorphology.
False
Countries have always claimed at least 12 nautical miles of offshore water as part of their territorial sea.
False
Exclusive Economic Zones are always less extensive than territorial seas.
False
In contrast to Australia, New Zealand s economy is mainly industrial.
False
Like the Antarctic, the Arctic is divided amongst various counties into well defined territories.
False
New Zealand is located about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia.
False
Papua New Guinea is located in Polynesia.
False
Polynesia is the Pacific s most populous region.
False
Polynesian culture is characterized by its variety, diversity, and inconsistency from island to island in the Pacific.
False
Russia stands to gain the most from the opening of the Arctic.
False
Sydney, Australia s modern capital, overcame competition from Melbourne to be selected as the national headquarters.
False
The South Pole is today claimed by the United States, whose explorer Marie Byrd was first to reach this distant outpost in 1895.
False
The islands of Micronesia tend to be small, but they are, on average, higher in elevation than the islands of Melanesia.
False
The largest city in Melanesia is Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
False
The proportion of Australia s population living in urban areas is presently about half that found in Western Europe.
False
Whereas Australia s population exhibits a strongly peripheral pattern of distribution, New Zealand s population is much more evenly dispersed.
False
Which of the following remains under colonial administration?
Guam
A U.S. state that is a part of the Pacific realm is ______________.
Hawai'i
Which of the following about New Caledonia is incorrect?
It remains under British rule.
The LOS in UNCLOS stands for _____________________.
Law of the Sea
New Zealand s largest ethnic minority group, whose roots are Polynesian, is known as the:
Maori
The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as:
Marsupials
The island of New Guinea is included in the Pacific region known as:
Melanesia
Which of the following cities is located nearest the Australian capital of Canberra?
Melbourne
The Pacific region that from the end of World War II through the 1980s was largely a United States Trust territory is _____________.
Micronesia
Which of the following statements about the physical environment of the Austral Realm is incorrect?
New Zealand has earthquakes and volcanoes; Australia has only volcanoes.
The vast interior rural area of Australia is known as the:
Outback
In territorial size, the largest country in Melanesia is:
Papua New Guinea
The largest cluster of population in Melanesia is found in:
Papua New Guinea
The people of New Guinea are:
Papuans
Regionally, the Hawaiian Islands are part of:
Polynesia
The Pacific region called ___________ takes its name from the word for many, and is contained within a huge triangle whose corners are New Zealand, Easter Island, and the Hawaiian Islands.
Polynesia
Shallow offshore continuations of coastal plains into adjacent seafloors are known as continental _____________.
Shelves
The term Austral means _______________.
South
The northern boundary of the Southern Ocean is called the _______________ Convergence.
Subtropical
The island across the Bass Strait off the southeastern coast of Australia is called:
Tasmania
Which of the following about Fiji is incorrect?
The vast majority of Fijians are of Melanesian heritage.
An international agreement allows exclusive 200-nautical-mile (320-km) fishing zones for coastal states.
True
Australia has had a long-term relationship with Papua New Guinea to assist that country s development.
True
Australia is a federal political entity consisting of six States and two federal territories.
True
Australia is the only world geographic realm that lies completely in the Southern Hemisphere.
True
Australia s aboriginal population totals about 2% of its total population.
True
Australia s successful mixed horticulture is cultivated using irrigation.
True
Australia, like the US, experienced a gold rush.
True
Before the European invasion, New Zealand would have been included in the Pacific World.
True
Broken Hill and Mount Isa are both mineral-rich complexes of Australia.
True
High-island cultures are associated with fertile soils and farming economies.
True
If no European had settled in new Zealand, it would have been part of the Pacific Realm.
True
In the Pacific realm, the so-called high islands mainly have volcanic origins, whereas the low islands are made of coral.
True
Low-island environments are marked by economies based on fishing.
True
Maori is an official language of New Zealand.
True
Melanesia is the most heavily populated of the three Pacific regions.
True
New Caledonia is still under French rule.
True
New Guinea is a part of Melanesia, a Pacific region that also includes the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia.
True
New Zealand s interior is as sparsely populated as Australia s.
True
Pie-shaped best describes the cartographic form of national territorial claims that have been made in Antarctica.
True
Sydney, Australia s largest metropolis, contains more than one-fifth of the country s entire population.
True
The Antarctic Treaty that presently holds national land claims at abeyance expired in 1991 and was replaced by the Wellington Agreement.
True
Today, fully a quarter of Australia s population is foreign born.
True
Which of the following is located in Melanesia?
Vanuatu
Which of the following is located in Micronesia?
Vanuatu
The historic 1840 agreement between the Maori and Europeans in New Zealand is known as the Treaty of:
Waitangi
Which of the following is true?
While much of interior Australia is desert, most of interior New Zealand is mountainous.
__________ is the study of fauna in a spatial perspective.
Zoogeography
The dominant economic activity associated with high-island cultures is:
agriculture
For many years, Australia had an immigration policy that ____________________.
allowed only white people to enter the country
A territorial sea is:
an adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail
The environmental crisis that most severely threatens economic activity in the Murray-Darling river basin is:
drought
The governmental structure of Australia is that of a:
federal state
The agricultural activity most closely associated with Australia s tropical climate is:
growing sugar cane
The better-watered volcanic islands, where the economy is based upon agriculture, are known as:
high islands
Which of the following is not one of Australia s major problems?
land border disputes
Wallace s Line refers to the ____________________.
line separating Australian animal species from non-Australian species
When a body of water is less than 24 nautical miles wide, the boundary between the states on each shore is drawn along the:
median line
Arctic claims can be made by all but which of the following countries:
of Finland
Most of the core area of Australia is located in the _________.
southeast
Which of the following countries has made no claim to territory in Antarctica?
the United States