Global Regions Quest Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
rain shadow | rises and cools ; eastern side is wet side |
where do people live | on the east coast |
aborigines | nomads: hunters/ gatherers first people in australia |
maoris | seafarers about 800 yers ago they made large canoes they are farmers |
importance of oceania | WWII: island hoping today: tourism |
european settlers and their effects | raised sheep gold rush pushed aborigines off |
difference between australia and new zealand | australia had oil, new zealand didn't aborigines were home to australia, maoris were home to new zealand |
difference between maoris and new zealand | aborigines were hunters/gatherers maoris were farmers |
melanesia | "black islands" isolated |
micronesia | "tiny islands" isolated |
polynesia | many hawaiin islands were an example of this isolated |
austalia's commerce | raised sheep |
two islands | micronesia |
geothermal energy | energy from heat sources from the earth volcanoes, geysers, etc |
suffrage | the right to vote new zealand was the first country to have the right to vote |
high islands | were volcanic |
penal colony | australia was this ; where prisoners were sent |
nuclear free zone | didn't allow nuclear weapons in their waters |
climates | dictated where people chose to live in australia |
land forms | the mountain range/the great divide: formed the outback |
australia's geography and settlement patterns | they lived on the east coast because they had access to water/farming ; they had people who lived in the grasslands to raise sheep ; nobody lived in the outback because there was no water |
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