Geography. Козлова Е.П. - 82 стр.

16.4 Find these Pacific Islands on the map and name the capitals of the countries

American Samoa (United States), Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Fresh Polynesia
(France), Guam (United States), Kiribati, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New
Caledonia (France), New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands (United States), Palau,
Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom), Samoa, Solomon Islands,
Tokelan (New Zealand), Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna (France).

16.5 Say whether the following statements are true or false

1. Thousands of islands scattered across the Pacific Ocean were called Oceania.
2. New Zealand is the largest island among the Pacific Islands.
3. Australia has three dominant landforms: the highlands, the lowlands and the
plateaus.
4. Central and western parts of the continent are characterized by abundant rainfall.
5. Eucalyptus and other ever-green trees are predominant forest types in the south-
east and on the sides of mountains.
6. Australia has animals and plants found nowhere else.
7. Australia is an independent federative state within the Commonwealth of Nations
headed by the British Queen.

16.6 Complete the following sentences

1. Oceania is divided into ………. .
2. Melanesia is called “black islands” because of ………. .
3. Geologists describe the Pacific Islands as ………. .
4. Australia is bounded by ………. .
5. Australia (including Tasmania) has an area about ………. .
6. The Central Lowlands are located ………. .
7. Tropical forests are situated in the north-east of the continent because ………. .
8. Flora and fauna of Australia include ………. .
9. The Commonwealth of Australia consists of ………. .

16.7 Read the texts and reproduce them in the form of a dialogue

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     Hundreds of years ago there were stories about a large continent in the Southern
Hemisphere. But no one could say what it was like and whether it was inhabited.
People called this land “terra australis incognita” or “the unknown southern land”.
The Dutch were the first Europeans to visit Australia. They discovered it while
making their journeys to the island of Java, a Dutch colony in Southeast Asia. When
the Dutch found themselves on the west of Australia they gave the name New
Holland to this western part of the continent. In 1770, the English captain James

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