This wide-brimmed hat is often made from woven straw and helps protect the face from strong sun.
What is a Straw Hat?
This tropical fruit has a tough brown shell, white meat, and water inside.
What is a Coconut?
This is the name for the daily rising and falling of the ocean caused mainly by the Moon's gravity.
What are Tides?
This brightly colored bird is known for repeating human speech and is often associated with pirates.
What is a Parrot?
This musical instrument is strongly associated with Hawaii and usually has four strings.
What is a Ukulele?
This lightweight fabric is often worn in tropical climates because it breathes well and comes from the flax plant.
What is linen?
This prickly fruit contains an enzyme called bromelain, which can tenderize meat.
What is Pineapple?
This line of latitude marks the northern boundary of the tropics.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This marine animal has a hard shell, flippers, and returns to beaches to lay eggs.
What is a Sea Turtle?
This Caribbean island nation is known as the birthplace of reggae music.
What is Jamaica?
This colorful Hawaiian shirt is also commonly called by this two-word name.
This yellow tropical fruit is technically a berry and grows in clusters called hands.
What is a Banana?
This warm ocean current helps influence weather in the Caribbean and along the eastern coast of North America.
What is the Gulf Sream?
This large spotted cat lives in tropical rainforests of Central and South America and has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size.
What is a Jaguar?
This dance style from Hawaii tells stories through hand motions and body movements.
What is Hula?
This traditional wraparound garment is worn in many Pacific Island cultures and is similar to a sarong.
What is a lava-lava?
This starchy tropical root veggie is used to make poi in Hawaiian cuisine.
What is Taro?
This type of island is formed from coral reefs surrounding a lagoon, often in a ring shape.
What is an atoll?
This slow-moving mammal spends much of its life upside down in tropical trees.
What is a Sloth?
This famous explorer reached the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and named them the Sandwich Islands.
Who was Captain James Cook?
This oily substance was once commonly used by sailors and islanders to waterproof clothing and protect ropes from moisture.
What is tar?
This tropical fruit is famous for its strong smell, banned in some hotels and public transportation in Southeast Asia.
What is Durian?
This large ocean is home to many tropical island nations including Fiji, Samoa, and Palau.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This venomous sea creature has tentacles and a cube-shaped body, and some species are among the most dangerous animals in the ocean.
What is a Box Jellyfish?
This ancient Polynesian navigation method uses stars, ocean swells, winds, and birds instead of modern instruments.
What is Wayfinding?