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Oceania
- 1. Bellringer What is acoral reef?
- 2. Oceani a Melanesia,Micronesia, & Polynesia
- 3. Atoll • An atollis a coral island that encircles a lagoon partly or completely
- 4. Archipelago • A groupof islands
- 5. Quick Write • WhatUS state is an archipelago? • What are atolls made of?
- 6. US Territories inOceania • Northern Mariana Islands • Guam • America Samoa • Midway (wildlife refuge) • Uninhabited Islands – Wake Island – Johnston Atoll – Baker Island – Howland Island – Jarvis Island – Kingman Reef
- 7. Oceania • Melanesia means black islands • Micronesia means small islands • Polynesia means many islands
- 8. High Islands andLow Islands • Volcanoes form high islands, which generally can support more people and have a more fertile soil. • Low islands are reefs or atolls, and are relatively small and infertile. • Melanesia—mostly high islands • Micronesia and Polynesia— mostly low islands
- 9. Quick Write • Nameone US territory in the Pacific • Name one of the three regions of Oceania • Reef and atolls make up which type of islands? • Volcanoes make up which type of islands?
- 10. Melanesia • Papua New Guinea • Fiji Islands • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu • New Caledonia
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- 14. New Caledonia French-owned island.1/3 of inhabitants are of French dissent
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- 16. Quick Write • Whatcountry is on an island which is part of two continents—Asia and Australia/Oceania? • What European country used to own New Caledonia?
- 17. Micronesia • During WorldWar II, the US fought a number of bloody battles against Japan on these islands • Northern Mariana Islands (US territory) • Guam (US territory) • Palau • Nauru • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Federates States of Micronesia
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- 21. Nauru • The world’s smallest island nation • 80% of the island cannot support life due to massive phosphate mining
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- 24. Federated States of Micronesia
- 25. Quick Write • Whatocean are these islands located in? • In what war did many battles occur between the US and Japan • What island has a major naval base?
- 26. Polynesia • Samoa • Tonga • French Polynesia • Pitcairn
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- 29. French Polynesia Tahiti
- 30. Pitcairn Island • Mutiny on the Bounty 1795 • 8 English crewmen, 6 Tahitian men, 18 women (most of them kidnapped) and a baby settled on the island to avoid the British Navy • Today most of the 67 inhabitants are descendants of this group
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- 32. Quick Write • WhatEuropean country controls the large archipelago in Polynesia • In what war did many battles occur between the US and Japan • What island has a major naval base?
- 33. • What number is Melanesia? • Polynesia? • Micronesia?
Editor's Notes
- #22 The world’s smallest island nation. 80% of the island cannot support life due to massive phosphate mining.
- #23 As seas begin to rise, climate change refugees are coming out of Kiribati
- #24 During the period from June 30, 1946, to August 18, 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, all of which were considered atmospheric. The most powerful of those tests was the "Bravo" shot, a 15 megaton device detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini atoll. That test alone was equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.