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Verified Test Bank Nijman The Austral Realm Chapter 12

Package Title: Testbank

Course Title: Regions 18e

Chapter Number: 12

Question Type: Multiple Choice

1) Which of the following statements about the physical environment of the Austral Realm is INCORRECT?

a) New Zealand has earthquakes and volcanoes; Australia has only volcanoes.

b) Australia's rocks are older than those of New Zealand.

c) Australia's highest mountains are the Great Dividing Range, while New Zealand has a spine of much higher mountains called the Southern Alps.

d) New Zealand has a moderate, moist climate, whereas Australia's climates vary from tropical to Mediterranean to desert.

e) New Zealand has a highland interior, whereas Australia's interior exhibits mainly low relief.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Comprehension

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

2) The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as _______________.

a) eucalyptuses

b) Australopods

c) marsupials

d) Outbacks

e) Anzacs

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

3) __________ is the study of fauna in spatial perspective.

a) Ecology

b) Zoogeography

c) Phytogeography

d) Botanical geography

e) Plant geography

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

4) Wallace's Line refers to the __________________.

a) fault in Australia where earthquakes are particularly severe

b) line separating Australian animal species from non-Australian species

c) middle ridge of the Great Dividing Range

d) place at which Australian waters are divided from New Zealand waters

e) dividing line between the Southern and Pacific oceans

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

5) Figure 12-3 shows that the body of water found near 40° South latitude is ___________.

A map shows the physiography of Australia, and an inset map highlights the prominent physical landscapes. The continent is surrounded by the Indian Ocean to the west, the Timor Sea, Arafura Sea, and Gulf of Carpentaria to the north, the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean to the east, the Tasman Sea to the southeast, and the Southern Ocean to the south. Paralleling the northeast coast of Queensland in the Coral Sea is the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian interior is dominated by desert and semi-desert landscape, reaching from the Indian Ocean coast east to the Great Dividing Range, excluding only the tropical and sub-tropical grasslands and forests of the northern and northeastern coast, and the Mediterranean scrubland of the southwest, southern coast, and southeastern interior. Tropical and sub-tropical grassland and forest is also present in interrupted stretches along the southeast coast. In the smaller inset map, Western Australia is dominated by the Western Plateau & Margins, a roughly triangular sector stretching from Darin in the north, to Perth in the southwest, to Adelaide in the southeast. The Western Plateau & Margins includes the Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victorian deserts, framed by the King Leopold Ranges of the Kimberly Plateau on the north, Hamersley Range in the west, and the Musgrave Ranges and MacDonnell Ranges on the east. While the Canning Basin lies to the north of the Great Sandy Desert, the Yigarn Plateau stretches along the south. The Central Lowlands are comprised of the Carpentaria Basin of the northeast, the Great Artesian Basin of the east, and the Murray-Darling River Basin, extending south to the coast between Adelaide and Melbourne. The Eastern Uplands extend along the entire eastern coast inland past the Great Dividing Range, and include Tasmania.

a) the Indian Ocean

b) the Pacific Ocean

c) the Austral Ocean

d) the Southern Ocean

e) the Arafura Sea

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

6) According to Figure 12-6, which city is closest to Australia's largest mountain range?

A map shows the political divisions, capitals, and overland communications in Australia. In the southeast, New South Wales is the most populous state of Australia with 7.9 million inhabitants, followed by neighboring Victoria with 6.3 million inhabitants. In the northeast, Queensland has 5.0 million inhabitants. Western Australia has 2.7 million inhabitants, while South Australia has 1.7 million. The smallest populations are found in Tasmania with .5 million inhabitants, the Australian Capital Territory with .4 million, and the Northern Territory with .2 million. The core area of Australia is comprised of the southeast coast from the Tropic of Capricorn south to Melbourne and then west just past Adelaide, with the addition of the area around Perth on the southwest coast. Within this core area are located all of Australia’s cities of over 1,000,000 population, including the state capitals of Brisbane in Queensland, Sydney in New South Wales, Melbourne in Victoria, Adelaide in South Australia, and Perth in Western Australia. Rail and road links are primarily along or near the coasts, with the network most interconnected in the southeast. Only one major line in the south directly transits the country east to west, and only one transportation corridor transits the interior north to south.

a) Perth

b) Adelaide

c) Sydney

d) Alice Springs

e) Darwin

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

7) According to Figure 12-7, Tasmania contains all of the following minerals EXCEPT ____________.

A map shows agriculture and mineral resources of Australia, with areas color-coded by dominant land use. While the interior regions of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and South Australia are marked as having no agriculture or pastoralism, the coastal areas and eastern third of the country are sorted into eight different land use categories. Much of Western Australia, from Port Hedland in the north to the southern coast, as well as most of New South Wales, southeast South Australia, and inland Queensland is sheep pasturage. A band of land along much of the northern coast, and surrounding the sheep pasturage in Queensland and reaching into the country’s interior, is cattle pasturage. Dairy farming can be found near and around the major cities, including Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane; a strip near the coast between Brisbane and Gladstone is the largest dairy farming area in the country. Commercial grain is produced in a stretch of Western Australia east of Perth, and in an arc along the southeast coast and inland Victoria and New South Wales. Within these belts of commercial grain are also located pockets of specialized horticulture. Sugarcane is grown on the east coast of Queensland, from just south of Brisbane all the way north to the Red Dome area. In the interior of the Northern Territory, as well as along the northernmost coasts—except in the vicinity of Darwin and the south shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria—hunting and gathering is practiced. All around the southern half of Australia’s coastline, including around Tasmania but excluding the south shores of the Great Australian Bight, are fishing grounds. Coal is found throughout eastern Australia, from Red Dome in the north through the Surat Basin in southern Queensland, and continuing through the New South Wales stretch of the Great Dividing Range. The southern half of Western Australia, as well as Victoria, has significant gold deposits. In northwestern Western Australia around Newman and Paraburdoo are iron ore deposits, whereas south of these deposits in the Teutonic Bore are gold, silver, copper, nickel, and zinc deposits. The entire northwest coast spanning Barrow Island, North Rankin, Scott Reef, Evans Shoal, Sunset, Tern, and Petrel is laid with natural gas reserves and crude oil, as are Kingfish and Flounder in the southeast’s Bass Strait. Tasmania is rich in a large number of minerals such as copper, tin, manganese, lead, zinc, gold, silver, and tungsten.

a) copper

b) lead

c) gold

d) zinc

e) uranium

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

8) Indigenous Australians are known as ______________.

a) Maoris

b) Cook Islanders

c) Aboriginals

d) Austral Indians

e) marsupials

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

9) Which of the following is NOT one of Australia's major problems?

a) aboriginal land claims

b) environmental degradation

c) immigration issues

d) land border disputes

e) urban issues

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

10) Australia’s top customer for its goods is ____________.

a) China

b) New Zealand

c) the United States

d) Indonesia

e) Japan

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe and explain the realm’s “Asian turn” in recent decades.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Realm’s Asian Turn

11) Which of the following cities is located nearest the Australian capital of Canberra?

a) Perth

b) Melbourne

c) Auckland

d) Adelaide

e) Brisbane

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

12) The governmental structure of Australia is that of a(n) ______________.

a) federal state

b) unitary state

c) British colony

d) monarchy

e) indigenous society

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

13) The island lying across the Bass Strait off the southeastern coast of Australia is named ____________.

a) New Zealand

b) Canberra

c) Tasmania

d) South Island

e) East Timor

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

14) Most of the core area of Australia is located in the ___________.

a) northwest

b) northeast

c) southwest

d) southeast

e) Outback

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

15) Approximately ___ percent of Australians live in cities or towns.

a) 30

b) 50

c) 60

d) 70

e) 80

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the major geographic features of the realm.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

16) The capital of Australia is _________________.

a) Canberra

b) Sydney

c) Melbourne

d) Hobart

e) Wellington

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

17) The vast interior rural heart of Australia is known as the _________________.

a) Australian Capital Territory

b) Central Australian State

c) Aboriginal Territories

d) Empty Quarter

e) Outback

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

18) The primary agricultural activity in Australia is:

a) growing sugar cane

b) sheep raising

c) wheat farming

d) mixed horticulture

e) growing grapes for wine

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

19) The environmental crisis that most severely threatens economic activity in the Murray-Darling River Basin is _________________.

a) overpopulation

b) rabbit-induced deforestation

c) mining pollution

d) drought

e) repeated floods

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

20) Which nation does not rank among the five leading trading partners of Australia?

  1. China
  2. South Korea
  3. Germany
  4. United States
  5. Japan

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe and explain the realm’s “Asian turn” in recent decades.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Realm’s Asian Turn

21) New Zealand's largest ethnic minority group, whose roots are Polynesian, call themselves the ______________.

a) Aboriginals

b) Maori

c) Kiwi

d) Austral Indians

e) South Islanders

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

22) Which of the following is true?

a) New Zealand lies less than 100 miles from Australia.

b) Whereas much of interior Australia is desert, most of interior New Zealand is mountainous.

c) The capital of New Zealand is Auckland.

d) New Zealand consists mainly of three large islands.

e) Most of New Zealand's population lives in the interior of the North Island.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

23) The historic 1840 agreement between the Maori and Europeans in New Zealand is known as the Treaty of _______________.

a) Waitangi

b) Canterbury

c) Wellington

d) the South Pacific

e) North Island

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

24) New Zealand is approximately ________ miles from the southeast coast of Australia.

  1. 500
  2. 1,000
  3. 1,500
  4. 2,000
  5. 2,500

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

Question Type: True-False

25) Figure 12-5 indicates that species found in New Guinea are similar to those of Australia.

A map shows the geographic transition between the Austral Realm and Southeast Asia, with proposed zoogeographic boundaries. Wallace’s Line is represented in red, drawn between Borneo and Sulawesi, and continuing south through the Indonesian Archipelago between Bali and Lombok—designating the dominance of placental mammals to the west, and marsupial mammals to the east. Weber’s Line, represented in black, is a refinement and update to Wallace’s division of placental and marsupial mammal dominance, and sweeps in an arc east of Wallace’s Line. Weber’s Line starts in the Philippine Sea northeast of Sulawesi and curves eastward to circuit the Banda Sea, staying close to the western shoreline of New Guinea, then sweeps back southwest through the Arafura Sea and Timor Sea, off the coast of Australia. The net effect is that Weber’s refinement defines the virtually the entirety of Indonesia as dominated by placental mammals instead of marsupials.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

26) The Tropic of Capricorn virtually divides Australia north and south.

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

27) The Subtropical Convergence marks the northern limits of the Southern Ocean.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

28) Australia's plants and animals are closely related to those of Africa.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

29) Biogeography is subdivided into the fields of climatology and geomorphology.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Outline the main physiographic regions of the realm, along with climate zones, the realm’s location on the Southern Ocean, and its notable biogeography.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Physiography of the Austral Realm

30) Australia currently does not permit the immigration of people who do not have European ancestry.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

31) The Austral Realm is the only one that lies completely in the Southern Hemisphere.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the major geographic features of the realm.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

32) Today, around 30% of Australia's population is foreign-born.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

33) Sydney, Australia's largest metropolis, contains more than one-sixth of the country's entire population.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

34) Australia is a federal political unit consisting of six States and two federal territories.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

35) Sydney, Australia's modern capital, overcame competition from Melbourne and was selected to be the capital city.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

36) The proportion of Australia's population living in urban areas is presently about half that found in Western Europe.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss the major geographic features of the realm.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

37) Australia's Aboriginal population totals less than 750,000.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

38) Australia’s successful mixed horticulture cultivation is dependent on irrigation.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

39) Australia, like the United States, experienced a gold rush.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

40) Australia has had a long-term relationship with Papua New Guinea.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

41) There are many mineral-rich mining complexes in Australia.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

42) Figure 12-3 shows that the Great Barrier Reef is located in the Coral Sea.

A map shows the physiography of Australia, and an inset map highlights the prominent physical landscapes. The continent is surrounded by the Indian Ocean to the west, the Timor Sea, Arafura Sea, and Gulf of Carpentaria to the north, the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean to the east, the Tasman Sea to the southeast, and the Southern Ocean to the south. Paralleling the northeast coast of Queensland in the Coral Sea is the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian interior is dominated by desert and semi-desert landscape, reaching from the Indian Ocean coast east to the Great Dividing Range, excluding only the tropical and sub-tropical grasslands and forests of the northern and northeastern coast, and the Mediterranean scrubland of the southwest, southern coast, and southeastern interior. Tropical and sub-tropical grassland and forest is also present in interrupted stretches along the southeast coast. In the smaller inset map, Western Australia is dominated by the Western Plateau & Margins, a roughly triangular sector stretching from Darin in the north, to Perth in the southwest, to Adelaide in the southeast. The Western Plateau & Margins includes the Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victorian deserts, framed by the King Leopold Ranges of the Kimberly Plateau on the north, Hamersley Range in the west, and the Musgrave Ranges and MacDonnell Ranges on the east. While the Canning Basin lies to the north of the Great Sandy Desert, the Yigarn Plateau stretches along the south. The Central Lowlands are comprised of the Carpentaria Basin of the northeast, the Great Artesian Basin of the east, and the Murray-Darling River Basin, extending south to the coast between Adelaide and Melbourne. The Eastern Uplands extend along the entire eastern coast inland past the Great Dividing Range, and include Tasmania.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: Australia

43) Sugar cane is grown in subtropical coastal lowland areas of Queensland.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

44) If no European had settled in New Zealand, it would still be part of the Pacific Realm.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

45) New Zealand is located about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

46) Whereas Australia's population exhibits a strongly peripheral pattern of distribution, New Zealand's population is much more evenly dispersed.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

47) In contrast to Australia, New Zealand's economy is mainly industrial.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

48) New Zealand's interior is as sparsely populated as Australia's.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

49) Maori is an official language of New Zealand.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

50) Figure 12-10 shows that the Southern Alps are located on New Zealand's North Island.

A map of New Zealand shows urban populations, major agricultural regions, roads, and distributions of natural resources. The South Island is characterized by wilderness on its west coast, bordered by the Southern Alps, where Mount Tasman rises to 3,497 meters and Mount Cook rises to 3,754 meters. On the eastern side of the Alps, running north to south, is an extensive area of sheep raising. Along the eastern coast from roughly the Christchurch (population: between 250,000 and 1,000,000) area to the southern tip of the island is mixed crop and livestock farming. Coal deposits are widespread across the South Island, and Uranium, Asbestos, and Gold can be found in the northwest quadrant. Across the narrow Cook Strait, the North Island has wide areas of dairy farming along the coastal lowlands, especially in the north around Auckland (population: over 1,000,000). The rest of the coastal areas, particularly the east coast, are areas of sheep raising. Inland are forested and wilderness areas, particularly around Lake Taupo. Coal is found on the west side of the North Island, and deposits of Lead and Zinc on the north coast near the Bay of Plenty, and Copper north of Auckland. Other than Auckland and Christchurch, Wellington, the country’s capital on the North Island, is the only city of more than 250,000 residents.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Application

Section Reference: New Zealand

51) Given its minimal production of manufactured goods, New Zealand’s principal exports are agricultural products.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

Question Type: Fill-in-the-blank

52) The term Austral means ___.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss the major geographic features of the realm.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

53) The northern boundary of the Southern Ocean is called the ___ Convergence.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss the major geographic features of the realm.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Defining the Realm

54) The northernmost large city of Australia is _______.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

55) Canberra is the second largest city in Australia.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

56) New Zealand’s most frequent natural hazard is.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

57) The largest urban area in New Zealand is centered on the city of ___________

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

58) The chief farming region of New Zealand's South Island is the ___ Plain.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss New Zealand’s general physiography and human geography, along with challenges of earthquakes and the position of Maori in New Zealand society.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: New Zealand

59) This continues to impact Australia on a grand scale.

a) civil war

b) military threat from China

c) climate change

d) earthquakes

e) hurricanes

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Discuss Australia’s administrative framework and main geographic sub-regions; the level and nature of urbanization; the country’s economic geography and major natural resources; and its two main challenges in the form of environmental degradation and aboriginal issues.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: Australia

60) Australia’s military is most closely aligned with the military of this country.

a) China

b) New Zealand

c) the United States

d) Indonesia

e) Japan

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe and explain the realm’s “Asian turn” in recent decades.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Realm’s Asian Turn

61) What area produces the most Austral realm migrants?

a) North America

b) Europe

c) Asia

d) India

e) China

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe and explain the realm’s “Asian turn” in recent decades.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Realm’s Asian Turn

62) New Zealand’s top export destination for its goods is ____________.

a) China

b) Australia

c) the United States

d) Indonesia

e) Japan

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: Describe and explain the realm’s “Asian turn” in recent decades.

Standard 1: Bloom's || Knowledge

Section Reference: The Realm’s Asian Turn

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