Chapter 9 Section 1 - Matching Words Worksheet

Humans arrived here 55,000 - 60,000 years ago
Time when climate changes caused large areas of northern and southern Australia to again be underwater, leading the Aboriginal people of the area to face a changed landscape
Reflects the conflicts that occurred after sea levels rose and forced groups on to land inhabited by other groups
Island created due to rising sea levels, separated from mainland Australia by the Bass Strait, where the Aboriginal people adapted and remain today
Scraper tool from Australia, common in Pleistocene and early Holocene
Bifacial tool from Northwest Australia around 2500 - 1000 BCE
Major change in Tasmania in 1800 BCE
Changes in foraging caused a change in size and location of territory resulting in the abandonment of this site in Tasmania
Rainbow Serpent imagery that began at a time of rising sea levels, at first depicting the pipefish, eventually turning into an imaginary, composite beast
Term for massive ancient Southeast Asian landmass, created from lower sea levels during the Pleistocene, which extended the Asian continent
Name for the area that included Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania
Area, which included the islands of the Philippines and eastern Indonesia (Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and the Lesser Sundas), that never had a land bridge to Asia or Greater Australia, in which migration was done via the sea