Chapter 12 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Currency from another country.

A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union in the early to mid 20th century.

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

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

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 amount of greenhouse gases produced for any given person, entity or practice.

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