Discovering Australia and Oceania

Question 1

What two oceans is Australia located between?

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean

Question 2

What is the name given to the area made up of Australia, New Zealand, and the eastern half of the island of New Guinea?

Accepted Answer

Oceania

Question 3

What forms of agriculture is New Zealand still a net exporter of?

Accepted Answer

milk, meat, and butter

Question 4

What is a traditional Maori dance performed with the intention to put fear into the enemy?

Accepted Answer

Haka

Question 5

What does New Zealand lie on the boundary of that affects its topography as it shifts over time?

Accepted Answer

on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates

Question 6

What are the two dominate cultures that create New Zealand today?

Accepted Answer

Maori and British

Question 7

The Maori call these islands Aotearoa - which means what?

Accepted Answer

Land of the long white cloud

Question 8

Explain where New Zealand is in relation to Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

Opposite side of the world

Question 9

What are the two main islands called by the locals?

Accepted Answer

The North Island and The South Island

Question 10

What dome-shaped rock is considered a sacred spot to the Aborigines and is one of Australia’s famous landmarks?

Accepted Answer

Ayers Rock or Uluru

Question 11

Tasmania has how many lakes?

Accepted Answer

4,000 lakes

Question 12

What bird species is now extinct and was the tallest bird to have existed?

Accepted Answer

Moa bird

Question 13

Australia is a nation of over how many islands?

Accepted Answer

over 8,000 in its territory

Question 14

99% of the world’s glacier ice is in what two ice masses?

Accepted Answer

Greenland and Antarctica

Question 15

What is the term for people from New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

Kiwi

Question 16

What are the two origins that make up New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

European and Maori

Question 17

Which is the smallest continent on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 18

What does Australia not share with any other country?

Accepted Answer

Land borders

Question 19

The name “Oceania” establishes what as the defining characteristic of the region?

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ocean

Question 20

What are the two main languages spoken in New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

English and Maori

Question 21

In which two hemispheres is Australia geographically positioned?

Accepted Answer

Southern and Eastern Hemispheres

Question 22

What mountain range is located on The South Island?

Accepted Answer

Southern Alps

Question 23

New Zealand is one of the most secular countries in the world.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

What is the official name of Australia?

Accepted Answer

Commonwealth of Australia

Question 25

This city is the largest and most populous city of Australia and Oceania:

Accepted Answer

Sydney

Question 26

Which island holds ¾’s of the population of New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

North Island (smaller island)

Question 27

Name the most remote developed nation in the world:

Accepted Answer

New Zealand

Question 28

The Eastern Highlands is also known as this?

Accepted Answer

The Great Dividing Range

Question 29

What is the largest country in Oceania in the Southern hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 30

Which geographic region of Australia covers 70% of the country's landmass?

Accepted Answer

The Western Plateau

Question 31

Largest city in New Zealand holding ⅓ of all people in the country

Accepted Answer

Auckland

Question 32

What natural disaster occurs as a result of living on a tectonic plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Christchurch earthquakes

Question 33

On which coast would you find most of Australia’s large cities?

Accepted Answer

East coast

Question 34

Name the world’s largest coral reef system off the coast of eastern Australia.

Accepted Answer

Great Barrier Reef

Question 35

What ground-nesting bird has become a national symbol?

Accepted Answer

Kiwi

Question 36

How many people make up New Zealand? And compare that to sheep.

Accepted Answer

5 million people/ 25 million sheep - 5 sheep for every 1 person

Question 37

Which type of birds had one of the greatest biodiversities in the world before predators arrived on the islands?

Accepted Answer

Ground-nesting birds

Question 38

Why is Australia often called “the land down under”?

Accepted Answer

because it’s under the equator

Question 39

As far as religion goes, only 37% of Kiwis identify as this?

Accepted Answer

Christians

Question 40

What sport did New Zealand adopt from the British that they have went on to be better at?

Accepted Answer

Rugby

Question 41

What separated The North Island and The South Island by just 14 miles at its narrowest point?

Accepted Answer

Cook Straight

Question 42

What is the Capital City of Australia?

Accepted Answer

Canberra

Question 43

What city serves as central administrative center of the federation and is located in the Australian Capital Territory?

Accepted Answer

Canberra

Question 44

How many states and territories is Australia divided into?

Accepted Answer

6 states and 2 territories

Question 45

3rd largest city and also the capital city at around 400,000 people

Accepted Answer

Wellington

Question 46

What is the name of the native inhabitants of Australia?

Accepted Answer

Aborigines

Question 47

What is another word for the interior of Australia?

Accepted Answer

the outback or the bush

Question 48

What is the largest island off the south coast of South Island?

Accepted Answer

Stewart Island

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