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Chapter 30
Final Exam
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bikini Atoll | The sites of U.S. atomic weapons tests. |
| Agriculture | Volcanic activity and flooding rivers both add nutrients back to the soil and keep it rich which leads to good farming. Also fish is in access in large numbers here. |
| Outrigger Canoe | a small ship used in lagoons of islands wher Pacific Islanders settled. |
| Population | Australia is the only inhabited continent that lies completely in the southern hemisphere. |
| Rabbits | 24 rabbits were released in Australia in 1859. By 1900, there were more that a billion rabbits. They ruined pastures. In the 1900s the government fenced in 2,000 miles. In the 1950s, they infected them with myxomatosis. |
| Oceania | The Pacific Islands. THe Philippines, Indonesia,and other islands near the mainland are not considered part of Oceania because their culture ties to Asia. |
| Wellington | New Zealand's capital, southern tip of the North Island. |
| Christchurch | One of New Zealand's larger cities, eastern side of South Island. |
| Southern Alps | A mountain range on South Island, New Zealand. |
| Great Barrier Reef | Often called the world's largest coral reef, it is really a 1,350 mile chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast. |
| High Islands | Islands made from vlocanoes. |
| Voyaging Canoes | a large ship developed by Pacific Islanders to sail the ocean. |
| Atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon. |
| Ring of Fire | A chain of volcanoes that lie on the Pacific Rim. |
| Icecap | Antartica's topography is hidden by a thick ice sheet. The ice sheet is the largest supply of freshwater in the world. |
| Atomic Testing | in 1946, U.S. ordered islanders out and they dropped two atom bombs on Bikini atoll. Between 1951 and 58, the U.S. gov. dropped more than 60 A. bombs. |
| Australia | Smallest continent. Southeast of Asia. Bounded by Pacific and Indian Oceans. Occupied by the continent of Australia. |
| Tasman Sea | Sea southeast of Australia and North of New Zealand. |
| Pegasus Bay | Bay off the coast of Christchurch. |
| New Zealand | A country that consists of several islands, including north and south, in the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of Australia. |
| Outback | The dry interior in the inland of Australia. |
| Low Islands | Islands made from coral. |
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