Geography Chap 23

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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


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