Chapter 12 Key Term Quiz

Australasia and Oceania
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Suggests a a recent and rapid expansion of Polynesian ancestors from Asia/Taiwan via coastal and island Melanesia, in the settling of the Pacific.

The development of Aboriginal art from the 1970s onwards in the western desert of Australia.

A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

In general refers to any society dominated by settlers from elsewhere. More specifically refers to societies such as the Australia, Canada, and US that were populated by settlers form Europe.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

The theory that the settling of Polynesia started around 8000 BCE.

An arc tectonic activity, including volcanoes and earthquakes, caused by the movement of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.

Currency from another country.

An area of volcanic activity. Not caused by plate tectonics but by plumes from the mantle.

Suggests a long history of cultural interaction between Southeast Asia, Melanesians and Polynesians in the settling of the Pacific.

An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

A highly infectious and fatal disease that affects rabbits. Introduced into Australia in 1959 to control the rapidly growing rabbit population.

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