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Creation Theories/Stories
The Layers of the Earth
Mo‘olelo
Plate Tectonics
Definitions
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The first chapter in the Bible of God's creation of life, the Heavens and the Earth.
What is Genesis?
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Four layers.
What is the number of layers that make up the layers of the Earth?
100
The Hawaiian Islands rose from the ocean
What is pulled up from the ocean by the demi-god Maui?
100
Pangea Theory
What is the name of the theory that started off with one giant landmass?
100
Magma
What is the name of the liquid material found underneath the earth's service?
200
This "poem" contains over 2100 lines
What is the approximate number of lines in the Kumulipo?
200
The outer most layer of the earth/that we live on.
What is the crust?
200
The goddess Pele's home is here.
What are Hawaiian volcanoes?
200
Volcanoes
What is found around the edges of the earth's plates?
200
Lava
What is the name of liquid rock (magma) after it reaches the surface of the earth?
300
In this theory, volcanoes and earthquakes formed the earth.
What is the scientific theory of creation of the Hawaiian Islands?
300
The mantle.
What is the name of the layer of the earth just below the crust?
300
Tahiti is the name of this island group that was "her" original home
What is the name of the island group that Pele came from before she lived in Hawaii?
300
Hot spot
What is found in the center of the Pacific Plate under the ocean?
400
Pö, the darkness
What is described in the first part of the Kumulipo?
400
Inner and outer core.
What are the names of the part of the earth at the center of the earth?
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This is known as Moananuiakea
What is the name of the ocean pathways that connect Polynesia?
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Approximately 4 centimeters
What is the number of centimeters the plates of the earth move in one year?
400
Plate
What is the name of a huge, moveable part of the earth's crust?
500
The names of the three creation "stories/theories".
What is the Kumulipo, the Scientific and the Christian theory?
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The inner core and the outer core.
What do you call the two layers that make up the core (of the earth)?
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Papa
What is the name of the mother in the Hawaiian creation story of the earth?
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North-easterly
What is the direction that the Pacific plate moves in?
500
Theory
What is the name of a belief or idea in science?