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- What new challenges are facing the livestock industry in New Zealand? - -
1) concerns about the health risks of meat-intensive diets have reduced
demand for meat in some countries
2) efforts to reduce greenhouse gases create pressure to reduce the
emissions from animals and international transport
- What do the names "Melanesia", "Micronesia", and "Polynesia" mean,
respectively? - -Melanesia- meaning black is lands
Micronesia- meaning small islands
Polynesia- meaning many islands
- 2/3rds of Australia receives less than what amount of precipitation
annually (in inches)? - -receiving less than 50 centimeters (20 inches) of
rainfall a year
- What treaty ensures that Antarctica can only be used for peaceful
purposes and mainly for scientific research? - -Antarctic Treaty
- What event in 1997-1998 caused severe drought in Papua New Guinea,
Australia, and Micronesia, resulting in crop failures, food shortages, and
costly shipments of drinking water to smaller islands? - -El Nino
- Ozone depletion has resulted in Australia having some of the highest levels
in the world of what disease? What 1987 international treaty succeeded in
preventing further ozone depletion? - -highest levels of skin cancer in the
world
the Montreal Protocol
- Why is a large part of Australia's interior lowland called The Great Artesian
Basin? - -because it holds the world's largest ground water aquifer
- In terms of geologic age & tectonic activity, how does New Zealand
compare to Australia? - -New Zealand is much younger geologically and
more tectonically active
- What created the low islands (atolls) in the Pacific? Due to their low-lying
nature, these islands are vulnerable to what sort of hazards? - -created from
, the buildup of skeletons of coral organisms that grow in shallow tropical
waters
vulnerable to storms, tidal waves and rising seas
- What mineral's resources ran out in the 1990s in Nauru, leaving behind an
island now a desolate wasteland stripped of vegetation and soil due to its
extraction? - -phosphate
- What country banned all nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed vessels from
its harbors against the objections of the United States? - -New Zealand
- Australia possesses several species of what two types of mammals that
died out on most other continents long ago? - -marsupials and monotremes
- Define ecological imperialism. In 1859, the introduction of what animal to
Australia resulted in devastated pasturelands? - -the process of European
organisms taking over the ecosystems of other regions of the world
the European rabbit
- The 200 nautical mile EEZ (exclusive economic zone) was formalized by
what UN agreement in 1982? Why was this significant for Oceania? - -was
formalized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and it
allowed countries with a small land area but many scattered islands, such as
Tonga and the Cook Islands, to lay claim to immense areas of ocean
- Define tragedy of the commons. - -in which an open-access common
resource is overexploited by individuals who do not recognize how their own
use of the resource can add to that of many others to degrade the
environment
- The Great Barrier Reef, Australia's 2nd most popular foreign tourist
destination, is under pressure from what impacts? - -from fishing with large
nets that damage the reef, chemical and sediment pollution, climate change
and coastal development
- What is the Pacific Garbage Patch and how was it created? - -an area
where ocean currents circle and trap large amounts of plastic and other
waste that has ended up in the Pacific
- Describe Dreamtime, a concept associated with the Aborigine worldview. -
-a concept that joins past and future, people and places, in a continuity that
ensure respect for the natural world
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