| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What is Austalia's conventional long form name? | Commonwealth of Australia |
| What is Australia's government type? | Federal Parliamentary democracy with a Commonwealth realm |
| How many states are in Australia? | 6 |
| How many territories are in Australia? | 2 |
| What is Australia's independence date? | January 1, 1901 |
| What is Australia's chief of state? | Queen |
| What is Australia's chief of state represented by? | Governer General |
| What is Australia's head of government? | Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister |
| What is Australia's Legislative branch? | Bicameral |
| What ages can you serve in the army? | 17-49; voluntary |
| New Zealand's executive branch | chief of state: Queen Elizabeth represented by Governer General; head of government: Prime minister and deputy prime minister |
| What is New Zealand's Legislative branch? | Unicameral |
| What do the Aborigines believe about their ancestors' spirits? | they are direct descendents; all inanimate objects and all living things are inhabited by the ancestry spirits |
| What is Ayer's Rock? | Ayers rock is a place where dreaming or dreams emerge from the ground |
| mythical poisonous snake warriors | Liru |
| the australian aborigine age of creation; a realm where the spiritsstill exist, an ongoing spiritual reality for the Aborigines | Dreamtime |
| Australian Aborigine nomadic group which makes its home in the Red Center of Australia's mainland near uluru | Anangu |
| Mythical, native, non-venomous, carpet-snakes people | Kuniya |
| According to legend, an old blind woman who rose from the underground carrying her three children in a basket. She gave them fire, covered the earth with living things, and then left them to settle the earth | Mudungkala |
| The most sacred of Aboriginal sites | Ayers Rock (Uluru) |
| A sacred Dreaming site of the Aborigines; it is considered to be of such significance that the Anangu refuse to speak of it to outsiders | Kata Tjuta |
| Australian Aborigine group which makes their home on the islands of Melville and Bathurst off Australia's northern coast/ Their culture still retains much of its unique character | Tiwi |
| An original inhabitant of a country or area | Aborigine |
| Serve as a way to remember the deceased and as a means of protection for the one who has died as well as the survivors | Pukamani poles |
| an original inhabitant of a country or area | aborigine |
| an extended period without rainfall | drought |
| the remote and usually uninhabited inland regions of Australia | outback |
| climate that receives low rainfall (10-20 in.) with scrubby vegetation | semiarid |
| lands where saturations with water is the dominant factor that decides the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface | wetlands |
| dry expanses of plains and plateaus that covers 70% of the Australian continent. Many parts of the outback are sparsely populated and eroded. Also, the outback is abounding with wildlife and resources | outback (australian) |
| the supercontinent that Australia was in before splitting | gondwana |
| a natural structure that periodically shoots steam and water into the air located in New Zealand and other areas on the continent | geyser |
| a reef that extends outward from the shore | fringing reef |
| landform that arises when water fills steep valleys which are originally carved out by large glaciers | fjord |
| lay some distance from the shore. separated from shore by a lagoon | barrier reef |
| a circular coral reef with a lagoon in the center. Atolls form after coral reefs that built up around volcanoes remained after old volcanoes crumbled into the sea | atoll |
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