GHY-1020 Lecture 4: Oceania (lectures 4 and 5)
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Oceania: australia, fiji, new zealand, new caledonia, vanuatu. Due to ocean currents, people arrived in new zealand very recently. There are more poisonous kind of snakes in australia then anywhere else in the world. New zealand: also known as kiwis, which came from the chew polish that was popular during ww2. Most people in australia can only live clinging to the coast. There is small land area that is sparsely populated. The great barrier reef is the (cid:449)orld"s largest (cid:272)oral reef syste(cid:373) ((cid:1005)33,(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) square miles) The destruction of coral: as global warming continues, the water te(cid:373)perature rises a(cid:374)d (cid:272)orals (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to keep up (cid:449)ith the temperatures. On top of that, overfishing and invasive species plays a (cid:271)ig role i(cid:374) the dyi(cid:374)g out of (cid:272)oral. (k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)(cid:272)oral (cid:271)lea(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g(cid:863) 400 different kinds of coral live in the great barrier reef. The (cid:862)cro(cid:449)(cid:374) of thor(cid:374)s(cid:863) starfish are the (cid:271)iggest (cid:272)ause of (cid:272)oral loss i(cid:374) the great barrier reef.
