Survival Skills
Characters & Creatures
What Happened When?
Geography & Nature
Think Like Karana!
100

Karana built her fence out of this.

What are.....Whale Bones?

100

Karana was this age when she was left alone on the island.

What is...12 years old?

100

This happened when the Aleuts tried to leave the island.

What is...the Aleuts got into a fight with Karana's people.

100

This is where Karana made her second home.

What is...a cave?

100

Karana was left to survive alone for this amount of time.

What is...18 years?

200

Karana decide to build her new house here.

What is....on the headland?

200

Karana was trying to catch this creature, and it proved to be very difficult.

What is....a devil fish?

200

This happens to Karana's brother when he goes out to get a canoe.

What is...he was killed by wild dogs?

200

This is the name of Karana's village.

What is....Ghalas-at?
200

This is the meaning of Won-a-pa-lei.

What is...girl with the long black hair?

300

This is the reasoning Karana has behind wanting to hunt sea elephants.

What is...she wants to make their teeth into spearheads?

300
This reason makes the most sense as to why Rontu died.

What is...old age?

300

This happens when Karana goes to hunt sea elephants.

What is....two sea elephants get in a fight and Karana ends up hurting herself avoiding them.

300

This is the actual name of the island Karana lived on.

What is....San Nicolas Island?

300

Karana hesitated to make weapons because of this.

What is...the laws of her people forbade women to make weapons?
400

Karana makes a special spear to catch this.

What is...devil fish?

400

This was Karana's common name.

What is....Won-a-pa-lei?

400

This is what Ulape put on before she left the island.

What is...a mark that means she is not married?

400

The group of islands that the island of the blue dolphins is located in.

What are...the Channel Islands?

400

Karana said that this sounds like a human voice.

What is...the lapping of the waves on the inside of the cave?

500

This was where Karana made her second home.


What is....a cave?

500

Karana decided to leave the island because of this.

What is...she knew the ship would not come back any time soon?

500

The name that Karana give the sea otter when she finds out it's a girl.

What is...Won-a-nee?

500

This is the name of the mission that Karana was rescued by and lived with for the remainder of her life.

What is...Mission Santa Barbara?

500

Karana said this would happen to her if she decided to make weapons.

What is...they would break in her hands the moment her life was in danger?

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