Across
- 2. - territory of the British Empire with internal self-rule
- 4. general - representative of the king or queen in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- 5. - being a rival; challenging
- 8. sheet - large mass of compressed ice covering a land area
- 9. - one of Australia's original people
- 10. bleaching - process that occurs when coral reefs weaken and lighten in color due to a warming climate
- 13. - such as ethnic heritage, that people inherit from their parents
- 17. - far from the coast; inland
- 19. colony - place where convicted prisoners were sent, far from their homelands
- 20. - member of the Pacific Island cultural group known for their long-distance navigation skills
- 25. - involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering
- 27. - person who lives in a place
- 28. - slow-moving body of ice
- 30. - a journey made for exploration, research, or war
- 31. - low, sandy island that has formed on top of coral reefs that surround a sunken extinct volcano
- 32. - poisonous
Down
- 1. language - simple language used for interaction between people who speak different languages
- 3. - original, Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand and the Cook Islands
- 6. - large floating mass of ice
- 7. reef - living formation of rock-like material made up of the skeletons of tiny sea creatures
- 10. - according to custom or usual practices
- 11. - distributed or occurring in widely spaced areas
- 12. - fixed quantity set by limits
- 14. - territory controlled by the government of another country
- 15. Treaty - international agreement that preserves Antarctica for peaceful an scientific use
- 16. layer - layer of the atmosphere that filters out most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays
- 18. - to obtain fresh supplies
- 21. tradition - a community's cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs
- 22. - enclosed area of land that functions as the center of Maori culture
- 23. - parcel of land put aside by the Australian government on which some Aborigines were forced to live
- 24. ice - seasonal ice that floats on water
- 26. - process by which one group takes on a cultural traits of another
- 29. - money that people who live in another country send back to families in their home country
