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1What is Oceania? hiztoreerox.com#00265
What is Oceania?
Social Studies
Geography
2What is Oceania?
you might ask…
What is Oceania and why does it have that funny
name?
3What is Oceania?
Directions:You and your partner will discuss each question then write down the best answers you come up
with.
Oceania
4What is Oceania?
Oceaniathe tropical region of the Pacific Ocean
5What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What does tropical mean?
Oceania Includes… Australia a continent and a nation
New Zealand a nation
Melanesia a region
Micronesia a region
Polynesia a region
6What is Oceania?
Australiathe world’s smallest, human-inhabited continent
7What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What is the
difference between Australia
the continent
and Australia
the nation?
8What is Oceania?
Australiaa continent
a small continentname for a
nationpart of Oceaniamany climate
zoneslots of people
Antarcticaa continentsmallest continent
not a nationnot part of
Oceaniaone climate
zonefew people
Australia vs. Antarctica
Australia the nation
9What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What do you
already know about
Australia?
New ZealandSouth Pacific nation with two major and many minor islands
10What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What nation
colonized New
Zealand and is still part of their culture today?
New Zealand
11What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What do you
already know
about New Zealand?
New Zealand
12What is Oceania?
DID YOU KNOW?
New Zealand’s stunning geography has been used in many movies
including Lord of The Rings
Melanesiawestern Oceania sub-region stretching from New Guinea to Fiji
13What is Oceania?
BOUNTY ISLAND, FIJI
Melanesia
14What is Oceania?
NORTH EFATE, VANUATU
Micronesianorthern Oceania sub-region with thousands of small islands
15What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What?
Micronesia
16What is Oceania?
DID YOU KNOW?
In Greek, the word ‘mikros’ means
small and the word ‘nesos’ means island
Wake Island
17What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What is the light green
patch in the
middle?
atoll with a lagoon
18What is Oceania?
atollcoral island that partially or completely surrounds a lagoon
19What is Oceania?
DID YOU KNOW?
Coral likes warm
water so these islands are only found in
the tropical region of the ocean
lagoona body of shallow water separated from the sea by a barrier
20What is Oceania?
Polynesiaeastern Oceania sub-region stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand
21What is Oceania?
THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII
Polynesia
22What is Oceania?FAKARAVA, FRENCH
POLYNESIA
Pacific Islands
23What is Oceania?
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What is the good and bad news about
living on a small island in
the middle of an ocean?
24What is Oceania?
Good Newsquiet
warm weatherbeautiful scenery
Bad Newslonely
bad stormsno seasons
Tropical Island Living
DISCUSSION QUESTION
Can you think of any otheritems to add to each list?
25What is Oceania?
Quiz Time
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26What is Oceania?What name is used for the tropical region of the Pacific?What is the continent name that is also a nation name?What part of Oceania has two big islands and many small?What is a coral island with a lagoon called?
What part of Oceania includes Hawaii?
Oceania
Australia
New Zealand
atoll
Polynesia
What are three unique things you would find in Oceania that are not found where you live?
27What is Oceania?
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