Vocabulary
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
The continent of island countries in between Asia and America.
What is Oceania?
The name for people from New Zealand.
What are New Zealanders?
The half of Samoa that became an independent country.
Polynesia contains over 10,000 islands.
False
The indigenous name for Easter Island, where the Moai statues are located.
What is Rapa Nui?
Stone statues of human figures found on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
What are Moai?
The indigenous people from New Zealand.
Who are the Maori?
The population of Samoa.
What is 202,500? (Any response from 180k to 220k counts as correct.)
Tuvalu is a territory of the UK.
False
The indigenous name for New Zealand.
What is Aotearoa?
The taking over of a land and/or a group or nation of people.
What is colonization?
The capital of New Zealand.
What is Wellington?
The capital of Samoa.
What is Apia?
The Pitcairn Islands have a population of less than 50.
True
The region in the southwest part of Oceania.
What is Melanesia?
What is Micronesia?
The population of New Zealand.
What is 5,132,900? (Any response from 4.5 to 5.5 million counts as correct.)
The amount of islands in Samoa.
What is 2?
There are over 1000 Moai heads on Easter Island.
True
A Hawaiian term for a wedge shaped piece of land.
What is an Ahupua'a?
A tradition where information is passed down generation to generation by mouth.
What is an oral tradition?
The amount of stars on the New Zealand flag.
What is 4?
The year that Samoa gained independence.
What is 1962?
The Federal Republic of Germany was the country to colonize Samoa.
False.