Landforms, water and resources of Australia and Oceania

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Use the table

   Country	People (millions)	People per km²
   Australia	26.7	3.5
   Papua New Guinea	10.4	22.9
   New Zealand	5.2	19.7
   Fiji	0.9	50.6

   Data: World Bank, 2023, read Nov 11, 2026.

2. 1.

   Tala compares countries. About how many times as many people live in Australia as in New Zealand?

   • About 5 times as many
   • About 2 times as many
   • About 20 times as many
   • About 10 times as many
3. 2.

   Using the same table, which country is the most crowded, with the most people per km², Zee asks?

   • Papua New Guinea
   • Fiji
   • New Zealand
   • Australia
4. 3.

   Ari's friend says Australia must be the most crowded country in the table, because it has the most people. Which response is right?

   • Disagree: it has the fewest people per km²
   • Agree: Fiji has the fewest people per km²
   • Disagree: New Zealand has the most people
   • Agree: the most people means the most crowded
5. 4.

   Tuvalu is a Pacific country of low coral atolls. Its highest point is only 4.6 m above sea level. What kind of islands are they, Bo asks?

   • High islands built by volcanoes
   • Low islands built by coral
   • Pieces of a continent
   • Tall mountain peaks
6. 5.

   New Guinea, 785,753 km², is the world's second-largest island. Jun's friend says land that big must be a continent. Which response is right?

   • Disagree: it is a peninsula of Australia
   • Agree: big land is a continent
   • Agree: it is joined to Asia's mainland
   • Disagree: it is a very large island
7. 6.

   Map of Western Australia's coast with ore ships sailing north to Asia. Iron ore is loaded onto huge ships at Port Hedland, on Australia's northwest coast, and sent to steel mills in Asia. Why ships, Kira asks?

   • Iron ore floats on water
   • Asia is across the sea, and ships carry heavy loads
   • Trucks can drive across the ocean
   • Ships are the slowest choice
8. 7.

   The Snowy Mountains Scheme in southeastern Australia uses dams and tunnels to make electricity and water farms. Why build it where deep snow falls, Luz asks?

   • Snow burns well as a fuel
   • Melting snow fills rivers for power and farms
   • Farms grow well on snow
   • Mountains have no rivers
9. 8.

   Noah's note says, "In Hobart, July is the middle of summer." Hobart is far south of the equator. Which fix is right?

   • Change "Hobart" to "Tokyo"
   • Change "summer" to "winter"
   • Leave it: July is summer, as in the north
   • Change "July" to "June"
10. 9.

    Map of southeastern Australia and Tasmania, with sea between them. Pia's note says, "Tasmania is a peninsula of mainland Australia." Bass Strait, a stretch of sea, lies between them. Which fix is right?

    • Change "Tasmania" to "Fiji"
    • Change "a peninsula" to "an island"
    • Leave it: land near Australia is a peninsula
    • Change "mainland" to "desert"
11. 10.

    Map of Australia with Mount Kosciuszko marked in the southeastern mountains. Ren's note says, "Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m, Australia's highest mountain, is on the west coast." It is in the mountains of the southeast. Which fix is right?

    • Change "the west coast" to "the southeast"
    • Leave it: the highest peaks are in the west
    • Change "highest" to "lowest"
    • Change "2,228 m" to "8,849 m"