🖨️ Oceania geography worksheet (printable, with answers)
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Which of these animals is the heaviest?
- A. Common kingfisher
- B. Platypus
- C. North Island brown kiwi
Which of these animals eats only plants?
- A. Dingo
- B. Red kangaroo
- C. Tasmanian devil
Which of these is closest to the equator?
- A. Uluru
- B. Sydney Tower Eye
- C. Royal Exhibition Building
Which of these is a legend that has never been proven to exist?
- A. Emu
- B. Yowie
- C. Koala
Which of these covers the largest area?
- A. Great Barrier Reef
- B. Tongariro National Park
- C. Kakadu National Park
Which of these is a reptile?
- A. Quokka
- B. Saltwater crocodile
- C. Common wombat
Which of these was completed most recently?
- A. Sydney Harbour Bridge
- B. Sydney Opera House
- C. Q1 Tower (Surfers Paradise)
Which of these was completed most recently?
- A. Adelaide Oval
- B. Flinders Street Station
- C. Royal Palace of Tonga
Which of these is a legend that has never been proven to exist?
- A. Laughing kookaburra
- B. Black swan
- C. Bunyip
Which of these is the furthest south?
- A. Australian War Memorial
- B. Milford Sound (Mitre Peak)
- C. Parliament House, Canberra
Which of these animals is endangered?
- A. Rainbow lorikeet
- B. Central bearded dragon
- C. Queen Alexandra's birdwing
Which of these animals is the longest?
- A. Kea
- B. Common brushtail possum
- C. Short-beaked echidna
The Twelve Apostles: which country is it in?
- A. Australia
- B. New Zealand
- C. Vanuatu
Which of these animals eats only plants?
- A. Southern cassowary
- B. Australasian gannet
- C. Laysan albatross
Which of these structures is the tallest?
- A. ChristChurch Cathedral
- B. Shrine of Remembrance
- C. Nan Madol
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Answer key — Oceania
- C. North Island brown kiwi (Common kingfisher (40 g) · Platypus (1.4 kg) · North Island brown kiwi (2.5 kg))
The kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak. - B. Red kangaroo
The kangaroo appears on Australia's coat of arms alongside the emu. - A. Uluru (Uluru (25.3°S) · Sydney Tower Eye (33.9°S) · Royal Exhibition Building (37.8°S))
Climbing Uluru has been banned since October 2019 out of respect for the Anangu people. - B. Yowie
In the mid-1970s a reward of 200,000 Australian dollars was offered for a captured yowie, and no one has ever claimed it. - A. Great Barrier Reef (Great Barrier Reef (344,000 km²) · Tongariro National Park (796 km²) · Kakadu National Park (19,800 km²))
It is made up of about 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands. - B. Saltwater crocodile
It can swim long distances out at sea and is sometimes found far from land. - C. Q1 Tower (Surfers Paradise) (Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) · Sydney Opera House (1973) · Q1 Tower (Surfers Paradise) (2005))
- B. Flinders Street Station (Adelaide Oval (1873) · Flinders Street Station (1909) · Royal Palace of Tonga (1867))
'Meet me under the clocks' is a famous Melbourne saying about its entrance. - C. Bunyip
In Aboriginal Australian stories, the bunyip lurks in swamps, creeks and waterholes called billabongs. - B. Milford Sound (Mitre Peak) (Australian War Memorial (35.3°S) · Milford Sound (Mitre Peak) (44.6°S) · Parliament House, Canberra (35.3°S))
Writer Rudyard Kipling called it the eighth wonder of the world. - C. Queen Alexandra's birdwing
The world's largest butterfly; females can have wings about 25 cm across. - B. Common brushtail possum (Kea (48 cm) · Common brushtail possum (80 cm) · Short-beaked echidna (40 cm))
Brought to New Zealand in the 1800s for its fur, it has become a major pest there, numbering in the tens of millions. - A. Australia
First called the Sow and Piglets, they were renamed the Twelve Apostles, although there were never twelve. - A. Southern cassowary
By swallowing fruit whole and dropping the seeds far away, it helps rainforest trees spread. - A. ChristChurch Cathedral (ChristChurch Cathedral (63 m) · Shrine of Remembrance (30 m) · Nan Madol (7.5 m))
Its spire collapsed in the February 2011 earthquake.