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What is the average Indigenous population in the Pacific Islands?


A) 90 percent
B) 80 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 60 percent
E) 50 percent

F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

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Which country in Oceania is most vulnerable to ozone depletion and suffers high levels of skin cancer?


A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) Papua New Guinea
D) Solomon Islands
E) Fiji

F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

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What percentage of Australia is urban?


A) 70%
B) 45%
C) 98%
D) 67%
E) 89%

F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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After 1973,immigrants to Australia came from which country?


A) Vietnam
B) Hong Kong
C) Philippines
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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Which of the following countries did not become independent after WW II?


A) New Caledonia
B) Papua New Guinea
C) Fiji
D) Western Samoa
E) none of the above

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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What forms the Pacific Garbage Patch?


A) plastic waste carried into gyres
B) plastic waste pulled into tsunami
C) dead zones along coastal regions
D) acidification of the ocean
E) all of the above

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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What was blackbirding?


A) exotic birds decimated by European species
B) Kanaka people kidnapped and enslaved
C) colonial policies against Aboriginal people in Australia
D) missionary influence on local leaders and law
E) none of the above

F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

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Which of the following are threats to the Great Barrier Reef?


A) coral bleaching
B) sediment pollution
C) shipping accidents
D) large net fishing
E) all of the above

F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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What does the Antarctic Treaty ban?


A) mineral and oil exploration
B) nuclear testing
C) tourism
D) mineral and oil exploration and nuclear testing
E) all of the above

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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What New Zealand species was hunted to extinction by the Maori?


A) kauri
B) beech
C) kiwi
D) moa
E) none of the above

F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

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What is a major source of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emission?


A) carbon dioxide from fossil fuels
B) methane from livestock
C) industrial fluorinated gases
D) nitrous oxide
E) none of the above

F) D) and E)
G) None of the above

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What is the Aboriginal worldview that links people to ancestors and the past to the present?


A) corroboree
B) hongi
C) Waking life
D) Dreamtime
E) none of the above

F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

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One of the most serious ecological disasters in Australia was the introduction of the ________ to Australia in 1859.


A) European dingo
B) European rabbit
C) Moa
D) European honey bee
E) none of the above

F) B) and D)
G) C) and E)

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Which Pacific Island has the highest quality phosphate in the world from guano deposits?


A) Fiji
B) Vanuatu
C) Nauru
D) Solomon Islands
E) New Caledonia

F) All of the above
G) C) and D)

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Australia is one of the most arid places on earth,with two-thirds of the country receiving less than ________ inches of rainfall annually.


A) 30
B) 20
C) 35
D) 40
E) 50

F) C) and E)
G) All of the above

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Which of the following was formerly a British colony?


A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) Papua New Guinea
D) Australia and New Zealand
E) all of the above

F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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The climate of ________ is dominated by the westerly wind belt and frequent rain storms.


A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) New Guinea
D) Polynesia
E) none of the above

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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What document delineates the relationship and land rights between the British Crown and Maori people?


A) Treaty of Raratonga
B) Treaty of Waitangi
C) Antarctic Treaty
D) Law of the Sea
E) Maori-British Treaty

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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During what decade of the twentieth century did Australia and New Zealand decide to dramatically reduce government intervention and regulation of the economy?


A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s
E) 1990s

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Which of the following is an example of ecological imperialism?


A) duck billed platypus
B) brown tree snake
C) red kangaroo
D) Tasmanian wolf
E) none of the above

F) C) and D)
G) None of the above

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