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

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

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

   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?

   • Pieces of a continent
   • Low islands built by coral
   • Tall mountain peaks
   • High islands built by volcanoes
5. 4.

   Side view of a high, rugged island with steep mountains rising from the sea. Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island, is high and rugged, with mountains well over 1,000 m. How did an island this high form, Esme asks?

   • Volcanoes built it up from the sea floor
   • River mud piled up into mountains
   • Coral built it, like a low atoll
   • Wind blew sand into high dunes
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
   • Disagree: it is a very large island
   • Agree: it is joined to Asia's mainland
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
   • Ships are the slowest choice
   • Trucks can drive across the ocean
   • Asia is across the sea, and ships carry heavy loads
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?

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

   • Leave it: July is summer, as in the north
   • Change "summer" to "winter"
   • Change "July" to "June"
   • Change "Hobart" to "Tokyo"
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 "a peninsula" to "an island"
    • Change "mainland" to "desert"
    • Change "Tasmania" to "Fiji"
    • Leave it: land near Australia is a peninsula
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 "highest" to "lowest"
    • Leave it: the highest peaks are in the west
    • Change "the west coast" to "the southeast"
    • Change "2,228 m" to "8,849 m"