Passing Down Words
The arts, beliefs, and customs, or ways, of a people
What is Culture?
What is Oral Tradition?
Where the Australoids went & where the Austronesians went
What is Melanesia for Australoids & Polynesia and Micronesia for Austronesians?
the 3 island groups of Oceania and the meaning of their names
What is Micronesia (small islands), Polynesia (many islands), and Melanesia (dark or black islands)?
It's the crude way of saying that you "passed wind"
What is farting?
Moving from one country to settle in another
What is Migration?
The 2 Ancestors of modern day Pacific Islanders
What is Australoids & Austronesians?
A canoe made of a main body, or hull, and a thin float connected to keep the canoe from tipping over
What is Outrigger Canoe (Proa)?
Coral that has been pressed together to form solid rock
What is Limestone?
He was the last of his people known as the Air Nomads who were eradicated by the Fire Nation hoping to kill him, the Avatar
Who is Aang?
Using the stars, sun. moon, wind, birds, and waves to find land
What is Wayfinding?
This is where Ancient Pacific Islanders migrated from
Where is Southeast Asia?
The 3 reasons Ancient Pacific Islanders left their new island homes
What is War between villages, Overpopulation, & Chiefs wanting more Power?
the FULL DATE of Magellan's arrival to Guam
What is March 6, 1521?
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system
What is a Tornado?
Things a place has a good supply of and that meet people’s needs
What are Resources?
Outside of Culture & DNA, Scientists also studied this to find connections between different Pacific Islanders, it may sound familiar to you
What is Language?
The 3 reasons people leave their island homes today
What is Better Education, Job Opportunities, and To Start a New Life?
The 3 Tips of Polynesia
What are Hawai'i, New Zealand, and Rapa Nui?
This woodwind instrument is the prize possession of one Squidward Tentacles
What is a Clarinet?
Material in cells that is passed from parent to child that can show how people are related
What is DNA?
the CHamoru's version of the story of creation passed down from generation to generation
What is Puntan and Fu'una?
This was the reason the Australoids sailed dangerous oceans to live on such small lands far from everyone
What are better hunting grounds?
Storms in the Indian Ocean
What are Cyclones?
This U.S. City in the Mid-west is also known as the "Windy City"
What is Chicago?
A kind of clay pot found on many different islands that helped scientists learn about settling and trading long ago
What is Lapita?
These were found in some Pacific Islands, making some scientists consider that Ancient Pacific Islanders may have came from South America
What are sweet potatoes?
A large number of this group of micronesians have migrated to Guam in the last few years
Who are the Chuukese?
The FULL definition of a Raised Coral Island
What is a flat atoll that may be several hundred feet above the sea and has no lagoon?
a person who talks at length but says little of value
What is a Windbag?