This word, which is a geographic region in Oceania, means "many islands."
What is Polynesia?
100
These people were the original inhabitants of New Zealand before the British took control.
What is Maori?
100
has only 12 letters Vowels: A, E, I, O, U Consonants: H, K, L, M, N, P, W
What is the Hawaiian alphabet?
100
Which of the seven continents is the biggest?
What is Asia?
200
It is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity. It’s crisscrossed by thousands of rivers.
What is the Amazon?
200
This 1500 mile chain of coral reefs found off the northeast coast off of Australia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the second most diverse place on planet Earth, right after the Amazon Rain Forest.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
200
These people are the original inhabitants of Australia before the British took control.
What is Aboriginal?
200
What the Hawaiians call Honolulu's zenith star.
What is Hokule'a?
200
7 large landmasses Earth is divided into
- Asia, Africa, North America, South America
- Antarctica, Europe, Australia
What is continents?
300
A mountain range that runs along South America's western side, is among the world's longest mountain ranges. Its varied terrain encompasses glaciers, volcanoes, grassland, desert, lakes and forest.
What are the Andes?
300
This peninsula in Asia is where two countries sit. Divided by the DMZ.
What is North and South Korea?
300
97% percent of those with at least one religious affiliation identified with this religion in the Pacific.
What is Christianity?
300
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows this crop.
What is coffee?
300
weather conditions in a place over long period of time
- influences where people live, what they wear, what crops they grow
- impacts type of vegetation, or plant life, in a location
What is climate?
400
a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
400
This island nation in the Southern hemisphere was established as an outpost by the British in the 1800s. Still to this day, this island nation, separated into the North and South Islands, is a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
What is New Zealand?
400
This nation, which shares the island of New Guinea with Indonesia, is one of the most linguistically diverse nations on the planet - with over 800 languages!
What is Papua New Guinea?
400
This groups of islands consists of over 130 scattered points of land stretching some 1,600 miles in length from the Kure Atoll in the north to the Island of Hawaii in the south.
What is The Hawaiian Archipelago?
400
Physical feature that covers three-fourths of our planet
What is water?
500
Trench that reaches a depth of 35,760 feet, or 10,911 meters located in the Pacific.
What is Mariana Trench?
500
It is the largest city in the world (in terms of the longest borders)?
What is Honolulu?
Honolulu is the largest city in the world -- at least it has the longest borders.
According to the state constitution any island (or islet) not named as belonging to a county belongs to Honolulu. This makes all islands within the Hawaiian Archipelago, that stretch to Midway Island (1,500 miles northwest of Hawaii) part of Honolulu. Honolulu is about 1,500 miles long or more distance than halfway across the 48 contiguous states.
500
A region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features.
What is a cultural region?
500
The first Asian American in the United States Senate. Descended from Chinese immigrants, was elected to the Senate in 1959.
What is Hiram Fong?
500
Hawaii's formed by _____ in the earth's crust and the movement of the plates. The islands themselves are shaped by the eruptions from ________ and by massive landslides.