Exam 14: Australia and Oceania

Which country of the region of Australia and Oceania signed the Kyoto Protocol in 2007, leaving the United States as the only industrialized country that has not signed the agreement?

What event sets off the process that creates an atoll?

Australia and Oceania face numerous environmental risks. Write an essay in which you describe and assess the severity of these problems.

What strategy has been valuable to both Maoris and Aborigines in their efforts to gain greater control over their ancestral land and resources?

What is the largest country (in terms of land area as well as population)in the region encompassing Australia and Oceania?

Explain the different development paths taken by the countries of Oceania?

What are kanakas?

The brown tree snake

Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?

About how many different languages have been identified in Papua New Guinea?

What is the greatest potential environmental threat to Oceania?

Using the graphic below, what age ranges have the highest percent of population in Australia and the Solomon Islands?

Which of the following countries is NOT part of Melanesia?

What land form dominates much of New Zealand?

What product is mined extensively on the island of Nauru in Micronesia?

An atoll typically has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT