WKA Cultural Geo - Chap 23

What country owns New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna?

What is the acceptance and adoption of a foreign people's values and lifestyles?

All 25,000 islands that are scattered across the Pacific Ocean make up a combined land area less than than of Alaska.

Which island's history includes stories of the HMS Bounty?

What is the capital of Micronesia?

What two countries make up the island of New Guinea?

Which great explorer discovered both New Caledonia and the islands of Hawaii?

What is the capital of Palau?

Which country owns Guam, Wake Island, and Midway Islands?

More people live in Papua New Guinea than in all of the other Pacific Islands combined.

Dried coconut meat, a major export for many of the islands of Oceania, is called

From which of the Mariana Islands did the B-29s that dropped the first atomic bombs take off?

The island of New Guinea is divided into two separate countries.

The potato-like root up to twelve feet long that grows on many islands of Oceania is

What is the capital of Vanuatu?

What country owns Niue and the Cook Islands?

The French used New Caledonia from 1853 to 1894 as a

Which island is the largest of the Mariana Islands?

The name given to the Hawaiin islands at the time of their discovery by Europeans was

Cannibals on the Pacific Islands were only legends told by imaginative sailors, not a reality of Oceania.

Framed houses that have a thatched roof and open sides are called

What is the capital of French Polynesia?

What country owns Easter Island?

Tropical rainforests cover only a small percentage of Papua New Guinea.

What is the term for the groups that worship the people or transportation methods responsible for bringing goods?

What is the world's largest atoll?

What is the capital of Fiji?

What is the name of the island 2600 miles off the coast of Chile that has rows of mysterious stone heads?

Which islands did Alvaro de Mendana discover in 1568 and name after a biblical character?

Who was the frist European to chart the Pacific Ocean?

American Marines fought some of the fiercest battles of WWII on some of the Pacific islands.

The island of Guadalcanal was the site of one of the earliest US offensives of WWII.

What country owns Pitcairn Island?

All of the islands of the Pacific became independent after WWII.

Which island has been called the "crossroads of the South Pacific"?

The largest of the Solomon Islands is

What is the capital of Solomon Islands

What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?

The word pacific means