ISLAND INFO
Island color of the Big Island
What is RED?
The name of the North Star in Hawaiian.
What is HOKUPA'A?
Where do scientists believe Polynesians migrated from?
Where is Taiwan or SOUTHEAST ASIA?
This insect floated on the jet stream and arrived in Hawai'i with a "happy face".
What is the Happy-Faced spider?
This plant is found only in Maui's volcano Haleakala.
What is the Maui Silversword?
Home of the volcano Haleakala.
Name of the voyaging canoe that retraced ancient voyaging routes.
What is the HOKULE'A?
I am the name of the migration theory that states Polynesians quickly moved through Southeast Asia.
What is THE EXPRESS TRAIN THEORY?
Many insects in Hawai'i adapted or changed once they arrived.
Many of them lost this part of their body.
What are insect wings?
Sky Father and Mother Earth.
Who are WAKEA and PAPA?
Where is Kaho'olawe?
Name three (3) ways that Polynesians navigated.
I am the theory that states Polynesians took their time migrating throughout Southeast Asia and Polynesia.
What is THE SLOW BOAT THEORY?
NAME THE THREE PROCESSES OF HOW PLANTS & ANIMALS ARRIVED TO HAWAII.
WHAT ARE FLYING, FLOATING AND SWIMMING?
This bird lived on the lava flows and not on the water. It eventually lost part of the web on its feet.
What is the Nene?
This island nickname means "THE GATHERING PLACE".
Where is O'AHU?
Where do most scientist believe Polynesians came from originally?
Where is Taiwan?
Where is SOUTHEAST ASIA?
Was it possible for people from South America to sail to Polynesia?
YES or NO
What is YES! (it was proven by Thor Heyerdahl)
These tiny creatures came to Hawai'i on the mud in the feathers of birds. The live on the leaves or the bark of trees.
What are tree snails?
The first Kanaka.
Who is Haloa?
The volcanic phenomena that created the Hawaiian islands.
What is the HOT SPOT?
What is the biggest ocean in the world?
Where is the PACIFIC OCEAN?
The name of the scientist who sailed a raft from South America to Easter Island.
Who is THOR HEYERDAHL?
This water bird came to Hawai'i and slowly changed from a water bird to a land bird and slowly lost part of the web on it's feet.
What is the NENE bird/goose?
These are the two main theories of human migration to Hawaii.
What are the SLOW BOAT THEORY and THE EXPRESS TRAIN THEORY?