Geography
Ocean that Polynesia is located in.
What is the pacific ocean?
A threat posed to the human population by a naturally occurring event.
What is a natural hazard?
Traditional stories told about the origins of a place often referencing Gods of some sort.
What is a creation story?
The war dance of the Maori people.
What is the haka?
Many islands are originally organised into small groups of people and led by…
What are chiefs?
Named because the areas is made up of lots of little Islands
What is Micronesia?
Occurs when a natural hazard has a negative impact on people and the environment.
What is a natural disaster
Referenced as pulling up the south island while fishing.
Who is Maui?
A Māori welcoming ceremony involving speeches, dancing, singing and finally the hongi.
What is a powhiri?
the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
What is colonisation?
Named because the area includes many types of islands.
What is Polynesia?
found where the tectonic plates meet, resulting in cracks in the earth’s surface that allow molten rock, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.
What is a volcano?
Reason given for similarities of language? (word starting with M)
What is Migration?
Typical mode of travel of early Polynesian voyagers.
What are canoes?
Boats/waka also acceptable
Group that rose up in Samoa to reject colonisation and seek independence.
Who was the Mao movement?
Name given to the outside of the pacific plate due to the high rate of volcanic and seismic activity.
What is the ring of fire?
Huge waves that are caused by earthquakes or volcanoes under water that affect the low-lying coral islands in the Pacific
What is a tsunami?
Disease that killed many samoan’s after a boat with infected people was allowed into its waters.
What is influenza?
This placed has unique stone statues called Moai.
What is Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Event that results in the death of many Samoans including a leader seeking peace called Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III.
What is black Saturday?
An island made of a ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
What is a coral atoll?
Year of the tsunami that hit Samoa.
When is 2009?
A diagram used to the show key events and the progression of time.
What is a timeline?
Used to help navigating on long voyages.
What are the stars?
Type of government in many pacific island nations currently?
Either:
What is a monarchy? Or what is a democracy?