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What is Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect?
Source for almost all of Oahu’s domestic water
What is Groundwater?
Double hulled, large sailing canoes used to voyage the ocean to find water, fertile soil, and other resources (fitch)
What is a "wa’a kaukahi"?
5 Key Functions of Soil that Support Life (name 2)
What is physical support; stores water, air, and plant nutrients; recycles organic plant matter; habitat for organisms; and engineering medium?
Name one of the 4 phases of cultural development (Mueller-Dombois and Wirawan)
What is the colonization period, development period, expansion period, and/or western period?
Most Important Aquifer in Oahu
What is the Koolau Basalt?
True or False: Polynesians who colonized Hawaii initially used a economy based on root and tuber crops cultivation.
What is TRUE!
highly weathered soil, low in fertility, hot tropical climate, present in older islands, weathered from basaltic lava
What are "Oxisols"?
Species that meet other conservation efforts, engage with Indigenous conservation efforts, and support native wildlife.
Factors contribute to “abnormal” behavior (high rates of obesity, smoking, and chronic drinking) Indigenous Hawaiians
What are "oppression and discrimination are the root causes - factors include poverty, lower education levels, institutional racism in the workforce, and a corrupt criminal justice system (Stannard)"?
Sustainable way of having leis
What is "growing plants specifically from leis instead of gathering from native forests"?
This occurred shortly after Captain James Cook's arrival in Hawaii
What is the spread of venereal disease and tuberculosis leading to a decline in population?
desert soils, lack of moisture, typically found in coastal areas, dry, accumulate salt
What are "Aridsols"?
True or False: The guiding principle for Indigenous Hawaiian's relationship with nature and their gathering protocol is, "Treat all of Nature's Embodiments with Respect"
Never took more than needed, had a strict system of land use, gathered based on survival, and compliance was mandatory!
How did the earliest ancestors of Hawaii's native species arrive?
What is .... "Scientists believe that the earliest ancestors of Hawai‘i’s native species were carried to the islands by birds, strong winds, or ocean currents. Those that survived the trip and also managed to become established, produce offspring, and increase in number are the ancestors of today’s native Hawaiian species. These native organisms existed in Hawai‘i for millions of years before the first humans arrived. (Anderson-Fung & Maly)"
True or false: Traditionally, only the chiefs wore leis.
What is "FALSE"?
The ali‘i (chiefs) and the maka‘ainäna (the common people who tended the land) all wore lei. Even the akua (gods, deities, spirits), it was believed, sometimes wore lei when they walked the land in human form (Anderson-Fung & Maly)
young soil, newly exposed, and loves acid (pineapple)
What are "Inceptisols"?
Forest restoration that acknowledges and bulbs on reciprocal relationships between humans & nature and allows for historical relationships to guide restoration design (Winter et al.)
What is Biocultural Restoration?
Areas necessary for protecting watersheds and water sources ; preserving scenic and historic areas ; providing park lands , wilder ness , and beach reserves; conserving indigenous or endemic plants, fish , and wildlife, including those which are threatened or endangered; preventing floods and soil erosion; forestry; open space areas whose existing openness , natural condition, or present state of use, if retained, would enhance the present or potential value of abutting or surrounding communities, or would maintain or enhance the conservation of natural or scenic resources; areas of value for recreational pur poses ; other related activities ; and other permitted uses not detrimental to a multiple use conservation concept (Oki and Brasher)
What are Conservation Districts?
Changes in land use after 1778 (Cook's arrival)
What is: "cattles, goats, sheep, and pigs brought over; change in population density; buildings, pastures, farms; resources lost due to neglect; irresponsible gathering; use of extensive areas; etc."?
deep, dark colored rich soil, grasslands, reddish in Hawaii due to iron, very fertile, used for sugar cane
What are "Mollisols"?