General Info
This is a landlocked body of water that is made of up brackish water
What is an anchialine pond or loko kaheka?
This is the driving force of watersheds.
What is gravity?
This is the english translation of loko i'a
What is a fish pond?
The earliest fossils of these marine predators date back over 400 million years, making them older than trees.
What are sharks?
Halocaridina rubra is the scientific name for this species commonly found in anchialine ponds
What is an opae'ula?
This is the name of the ahupua'a we are currently in.
What is 'O'oma 1?
An anchialine ponds is this kind of loko i'a.
What is a loko kāheka?
Because the vocal trick requires air to escape through your nasal passage, it is physically impossible to do this while holding your nose.
What is humming?
This is an invasive species commonly found in the Wawaloli anchialine ponds.
What is a guppy?
This is the name of the watershed we are currently in.
Keahole
This event is expected to destroy the loko kaheka we see today by 32% in 2030.
What is inundation?
This Australian marsupial leaves cube-shaped droppings so its territory markers don’t roll away.
What is a wombat?
700 of about 1,000 ponds worldwide are found in this location
What is Moku o Keawe (island of Hawaii)?
This is the smallest "slice" of Hawaiian land division with the best comparison to the American division system being a neighborhood with shared resources (park, playground etc).
What is an ʻili?
This loko i'a is a shore-based fish traps built on shallow flats using converging rock lanes without gates.
What is loko ʻumeʻiki?
This is the best-selling album of all time worldwide with an estimated 67 to 70 million copies sold.
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
Historically, Native Hawaiian fishermen harvested ʻōpaeʻula beause their vibrant red color were the ideal natural bait (palu) used to attract and feed schools of this kind of fish.
What are ʻōpelu? (from ACE 1)
Much of the lower coastal watershed area sits on top of this lava flow from Hualālai, which extended the western shoreline by an estimated mile
What is the 1801 (Huʻehuʻe) lava flow?
Because this type of loko i'a require sheltered bays and wide fringing reefs common to older islands like Oʻahu and Molokaʻi there are fewer of this kind of loko i'a on the Island of Hawaii.
What is loko kuapā?
This character is officially described as weighing three apples and stands exactly five apples tall.