Exam 11: Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Epilogue: Antarctica

What feature lies off Australia's northeastern coast and contributes to southeastern Australia's mild climate by directing warm west-flowing currents to the south?

Which of the following is NOT among Australia's main environmental problems?

What term is introduced in the textbook to describe a situation in which a person can have a safe and healthy life on relatively little formal income?

Egg-laying mammals,such as the platypus and the anteater,are known as:

What is the species name of the pouch-bearing mammals that have,in isolation from mammals from other parts of the world,evolved over thousands of years to the special conditions of Australia's climate?

Which of the following has NOT been an effect of Asia's global economic rise on the countries of Oceania,particularly Australia and New Zealand?

Which leisure activity is particularly important to Hawaii's economy?

Explain how the introduction of rabbits into Australia by European settlers affected native plant and animal species.How well did efforts to control the growth of the rabbit population work,and what were some of their unintended effects?

What is the name of the type of economy that many small Pacific Island countries have?

The Great Barrier Reef lies off the northeastern coast of New Zealand.

What is the name of the longest fence in the world,found in Australia?

Until the High Court voided such a view in 1993,what group of people was thought to have no prior claim to any land in Australia because they were considered to be "too primitive?"

How many languages are spoken in the Vanuatu island chain?

Which country of Oceania does NOT attract tourism far in excess of its population?

Which statement is NOT true of Australia's Aborigines?

New Zealand has made no attempt in recent years to improve the lives of the Maori population.

What percentage of the population of Australia lives in urban areas?

Unlike the rest of the world,the countries of Oceania remain relatively untouched by globalization today.

What type of feature forms the high islands of Oceania,such as the Hawaiian Islands?

Which of the following statements provides the most accurate description of the composition of the populations of Australia and New Zealand since the 1990s?