Australia Review Game

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Australia Review Game
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How does the high literacy rate in Australia
affect its economy and enhance the standard of
living for its citizens?

1. It has no effect
2. It increases GDP and decreases human capital
3. It increases human capital, GDP, and Standard of
   living
4. It decreases GDP but increases standard of living

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• 3.It increases human capital, GDP, and Standard
  of living

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Gaining more money from taxes and protecting
nations businesses from other foreign companies
is an example of which trade barrier?

1. Quota
2. Tariff
3. Mountains
4. Embargo

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• 2. Tariff

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Which silent weapon killed many aborigines

• Contaminated food
• Guns
• Animals
• Disease

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• 4. disease

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Why is Asia influential to Australia?

1. The 2 nations trade
2. Similar weather features
3. Aust. first settlers came from Asia
4. Common currency

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• 3. Aust. first settlers came from Asia

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All of the following are examples of human
capital EXCEPT

1. Investing in computers
2. Investing in GDP
3. Investing in education
4. Investing in high-tech jobs

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• 2. Investing in GDP

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Plan for energy independence will focus on using
sources of energy we already have here in the
Australia including oil natural gas, wind, and
solar . This is an example of

1. Utilizing nations OWN resources to help economy
2. International trading to stimulate jobs and the
   economy
3. Utilizing nations resources which will hurt the
   economy

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• 1. Utilizing nations OWN resources to help
  economy

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Why did the British send prisoners to Australia

1. Empty plot of land
2. Lots of housing
3. No where else to put them
4. It was a remote island

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• 4 It was a remote island

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TRUE or FALSE Coffee is one of Australias main
resource?

1. True
2. False

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• 2. False, TIMBER is the main resource

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A remote location, scarcely populated, where
there is little natural resources best describes

1. Coral Reef
2. Coastal Cities
3. Outback
4. Oceania

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• 3. Outback

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Which group of people contributed MOST to the
colonization of Australia?

• 1. doctors
• 2. prisoners
• 3. artists
• 4. Puritans

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• 2. prisoners

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Which occupation helps Aust. economy the MOST?

1. Farmers
2. Miners
3. Entreprenuers
4. Factory workers

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• 1. farmers

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How did the ice age impact Australia?

1. It offered more fishing to early explorers
2. It provided natives with water and ice cap
   mountains
3. The low sea levels exposed the land providing a
   place to live
4. The natives wanted to move from Asia

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• 3 The low sea levels exposed the land providing a
  place to live

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Which major physical feature does the Great
Barrier Reef touch?

1. Indian Ocean
2. Darling River
3. Oceania
4. Coral Sea

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• 4. Coral Sea

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Why did the population of Aborigines decrease
more in the 19th century?

1. The kids were being taken
2. They were dying of disease
3. The tribes were having conflicts
4. The British population mixed with the aborigine
   population

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• 2. They were dying of disease

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Why cant tourism jobs sustain Aust. Economy?

1. Tourism is seasonal and only happens at certain
   times in the year
2. Tourism doesnt attract enough people
3. The places to tour is Aust. are not all that!
4. Tourism is a steady money maker

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• 1. Tourism is seasonal and only happens at
  certain times in the year

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Taking too many fish out of the sea is known as

• 1. fish depletion
• 2. fish exile
• 3. exfishing
• 4. overfishing

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• 4. overfishing

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What is the title of Queen Elizabeth in Aust?

1. Governer
2. Head of State
3. President
4. Prime Minister

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• 2. Head of State

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2 houses in the legislature is

1. Bicameral
2. Bilingual
3. Bilegislatre
4. Bi-casas

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• 1. Bicameral

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An entrepreneur is

• 1. someone who fails at a business
• 2. someone who succeeds at a business
• 3. someone who takes a risk to start a business
• 4. someone who borrows money

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• 3. someone who takes a risk to start a business

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What type of economy does Aust. Have?

1. Market
2. Capitalist
3. Mixed
4. command

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• 3. mixed

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Which of the following is an example of investing
in human capital?

• 1. taxing people
• 2. building universities
• 3. farming corn
• 4. installing telephones

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• 2. building universities

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destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, ozone
depletion, global warming are all examples of

1. Natural resources
2. Aust. Use of economic goods
3. Challenges for Aust. Farmers
4. Concerns for the environment

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• 4 Concerns for the environment

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Technology, machines, services, manufacturing,
phones are all example of which type of
productive resource/good?

1. Natural
2. Capital
3. Human
4. Capitalism

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• 2. Capital

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High-tech job, educated, literacy rate are all
examples of which type of productive
resource/good?

1. Natural
2. Capital
3. Human
4. Capitalism

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• 3. human

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True/False, Tea Production is useful in Aust.
Economy?

1. True
2. False

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• False!
• tourism, fishing, and farming are important for
  Aust. economy

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Tree planting will help

1. The economy
2. The survival of ecosystem
3. The aborigine population
4. Provide more jobs

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• 2. The survival of ecosystem

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All of the following are capital goods EXCETPT

• 1. assembly lines
• 2. telephones
• 3. education
• 4. Computers

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• 3. education

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Northeast Aust. Several fish and organisms live
here, in the Coral Sea best describes

1. Great Victoria Desert
2. Ayers Rock
3. Great Barrier Reef
4. Oceania

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• 3 Great Barrier Reef

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Northeast Aust. Home to the Great Barrier Reef,
dumps into Pacific Ocean best describes

• Great Victoria Desert
• Coral Sea
• Great Barrier Reef
• Oceania

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• 2. Coral Sea

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Stretches across central Aust, huge, red boulder
best describes

• Great Victoria Desert
• Coral Sea
• Oceania
• Ayers Rock

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• 4. Ayers Rock

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located in South and Western Australia named
after British queen Victoria

• Great Victoria Desert
• Coral Sea
• Oceania
• Ayers Rock

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• 1. Great Victoria Desert