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6th grade Landforms, water and resources of Australia and Oceania worksheet

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Landforms, water and resources of Australia and Oceania

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  1. Read this first

    Use the table

    CountryPeople (millions)People per km²
    Australia26.73.5
    Papua New Guinea10.422.9
    New Zealand5.219.7
    Fiji0.950.6

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

  2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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"
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Landforms, water and resources of Australia and Oceania. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can name the Great Dividing Range, the Great Barrier Reef, the Outback and the nearby seas, and tell a continent, a country and a region apart.
  • I can work out which way rivers flow, use Southern Hemisphere seasons and Australia's time zones, and explain how people find water in dry land.
  • I can compare countries by people and by people per km², and tell low coral islands from high volcanic ones.

Standard: D2.Geo.10.6-8

Common mistakes

Your child mixed up a continent, a country and a region. Australia is a country and a continent; Oceania is a region of many countries.

Your child matched a resource to the wrong place. Make a chart together: Western Australia iron ore, New Zealand dairy, Queensland sugar cane.

Your child used northern seasons south of the equator. In Australia and New Zealand, December is summer and July is winter.

Questions parents ask

What is the most common mistake with landforms, water and resources of australia and oceania?

Your child mixed up a continent, a country and a region. Australia is a country and a continent; Oceania is a region of many countries.

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