geography: geography of oceania

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands

OCEANIA

Australia's Natural Features

Land Down

Under

Reversed Seasons

Three Landforms

Above: Great Barrier Reef

Above Right: Australian Kangaroo

Far Right: Eucalyptus Tree

Right: Australian Koala

Q1. WHAT DOES ENDEMIC MEAN? NAME AN ENDEMIC SPECIES OF AUSTRALIA.

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Indigenous Aborigines

Australian HistoryEuropean Settlers and

Independence

Australia Today

Q2. WHAT IS THE NAME FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA?

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NEW ZEALANDNatural Features

Exploration

Colonization

Independence

History and Culture

New Zealand Today

Left: Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand

Q3. WHAT EUROPEAN NATION SETTLED IN NEW ZEALAND AND THEN LATER GRANTED THEIR INDEPENDENCE?

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PACIFIC ISLANDSLand of Much Water

Tahiti is a high island

Marshall Islands are low islands

Q4. WHAT ARE HIGH ISLANDS MADE OF? WHAT ARE LOW ISLANDS MADE OF?

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Humid tropical

climate

Coconut palm

Tourism

Climate, Plants, and Resources

Ferdinand Magellan to US Territories

History and CultureMap of the Pacific

Islands

Pacific Islands Today

Left: EEZ Zones of the Pacific

Above: Nuclear test size in the Marshall Islands

Q5. WHICH PACIFIC REGION (MICRONESIA,

MELANESIA, OR POLYNESIA) WILL YOU FIND THE US STATE OF HAWAII?

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Picture Citations Slide 2

map.net.au esc.nsw.gov.au budgiesareawesome.blogspot.com bird.net.au

Slide 3 gowhere.com outback-australia-travel-secrets.com imagesaustralia.com

Slide 5 history.howstuffworks.com lemonlemonade.wordpress.com goway.com

Slide 6 blogs.novonordisk.com seanselva.com cia.gov

Slide 8 nzmirror.com worldwidehomestay.com hannasworld.typepad.com mvemilygrace.blogspot.com

Slide 9 teara.govt.nz mvemilygrace.blogspot.com silverfernz.com soccertunes.tk

Slide 10 mkiwi.com

Slide 12 tahiti-one.com gseii.org

Slide 14 oneorchid.com tourismroi.com touristlink.com

Slide 15 oki-park.jp exequy.wordpress.com biology.usgs.gov

Slide 16 fao.org watoday.com.au

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