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The sun rises in the ____.
What is the east?
Term for a earth oven or cooking pit.
What is a hangi?
This large flightless bird went extinct shortly after people settled the islands of Aotearoa.
What is the Moa?
When was Aotearoa New Zealand settled by people.
Around 1200-1300 or 800 years ago would be acceptable.
This term means "black islands."
What is Melanesia?
The sun sets in the ___.
What is the west?
This is the term for a defensive strongly fortified place Māori would build.
What is a Pā?
Māori used this to clear large areas of land for growing food.
What is fire?
This culture lived in Melanesia thousands of years ago and buried their dead with finely crafted ceramic pots.
Who were the Lapita people?
The tropics have two seasons, winter is dry and cooler, and summer is ________.
What is hot and rainy?
Master navigators create one of these in their mind by memorising all of the positions of stars on the horizon throughout the year.
What is a star compass?
The te reo term for village.
What is a Kāinga?
Many kāinga were located near the coast because ____ was an important food source.
What is kai moana. (seafood)
The Polynesian people randomly sailed around the pacific and "accidently" discovered Aotearoa.
True or False
False
Why is it important to learn about social studies?
Any answer reasonable answer is correct!
Navigators could see this form above islands or a large land mass.
What are clouds?
The double hulled canoe the Polynesian people used to get to Aotearoa.
What is waka hourua?
This black stone was vitally important for cutting, it is brittle and known as volcanic glass.
What is obsedian?
The journey into the Pacific (te Moana nui-a-Kiwa) began at on this continent.
What is Asia?
The te reo term for the sweet potato that proves the Polynesian explorer were trading with South America.
What is Kūmara?
If it is a cloudy day what is one sign you could use to navigate toward an island.
What are currents, swells, birds, or floating vegetation?
The te reo whakataukī, "To walk backwards into the future."
What is "Ka mua, ka muri."
This bird went extinct because their food source was the Moa.
What is the Haast Eagle or Pouākai.
How long ago approximately is 2000BCE?
What is 4000 years ago. (4025 precisely)
This is the technical term for a stone axehead.
What is an adze?