Geography
This is the longest river in Aotearoa.
➡️ Answer: What is the Waikato River?
This device helps you measure angles in maths.
➡️ Answer: What is a protractor?
This word means “family”.
➡️ Answer: What is whānau?
This force pulls objects toward Earth.
➡️ Answer: What is gravity?
This sport is played with an oval ball and is one of the most popular in Aotearoa.
➡️ What is rugby?
This mountain is the highest peak in the country.
➡️ Answer: What is Aoraki/Mt Cook?
The scientific process starting with a prediction or guess.
➡️ Answer: What is a hypothesis?
This whakataukī means “It takes a village to raise a child.”
➡️ Answer: What is “He aha te mea nui o te ao? …”?
The smallest unit of life.
➡️ Answer: What is a cell?
This legendary All Black is famous for the quote, “Rugby is not just a game, it’s a way of life.”
➡️ Who is Jonah Lomu?
This Northland harbour is famous for its Hokianga stories and history.
➡️ Answer: What is the Hokianga Harbour?
This term describes energy stored in food.
➡️ Answer: What are calories? (or kilojoules)
This tikanga is used before entering a wharenui.
➡️ Answer: What is removing your shoes? / Respectful behaviour.
This simple machine uses a pivot point called a fulcrum.
➡️ Answer: What is a lever?
This Māori game involves rolling a kēmu ball into a tupu.
➡️ What is Kī-o-Rahi?
This region is known as Te Tai Tokerau.
➡️ Answer: What is Northland?
This word means “the study of life”.
➡️ Answer: What is biology?
This role on the marae leads the karanga.
➡️ Answer: What is the kaikaranga?
This heat transfer happens through direct contact.
➡️ Answer: What is conduction?
This woman lholds the most olympic medals in NZ.
➡️ Who is Lisa Carrington?
This river is the sacred waterway your class studies for kaitiakitanga.
➡️ Answer: What is the Punakitere River?
This system of the body carries oxygen through your blood.
➡️ Answer: What is the circulatory system?
This concept describes guardianship and care for the environment.
➡️ Answer: What is kaitiakitanga?
An engineering challenge where students build moving machines using rods, motors, or electronics.
➡️ Answer: What is EPro8?
This annual event brings thousands of rangatahi Māori together to compete in sports such as rugby league, netball, basketball, and athletics.
➡️ What is the AIMS Games?