Grab bag
The name of the room we have Social Studies in
What is G9?
The place that theories suggest that Polynesian people originated from due to similarities in langauge, food and tools
What is Asia?
The country responsible for sending agents to destroy the Rainbow Warrior
What is France?
The man responsible for starting the 'Save Manapouri Campaign'
Who is Ron Maclean?
The act of getting positive news stories about hosting major events like sports tournaments in order to hide the negative stories about things like human rights violations
What is sportwashing?
The type of graph you should use if you would like to show percentages
What is a pie graph?
An event that brought miners from all around the world to our local region in search of a fortune
What is the 'Otago Gold Rush'?
The name of the alliance between the United Staes, New Zealand and Australia
What is ANZUS?
The lake not far south of Manapouri that was an example of the damage that could happen to Manapouri if they raised the water level
What is Lake Monowai?
A type of Government where the rules and laws are based on a religion
What is Theocracy?
The name of the political party who won the election vote for 9MU
What is The Young Leaders Alliance?
The bad things that drive someone to want to leave a country or the good things that draw someone to a new country
What are 'Push and pull factors'?
The Prime Minister of New Zealand who sent protest ships out to Mururoa on 'Norm's Mystery Tours'
Who is Norman Kirk?
The type of environment that South Dunedin was before the settlement of Dunedin was built
What is swampland/marshland
What is America withdrawing troops from Afghanistan?
These imaginary lines that appear on maps and globes help us to located places
What is longitude and latitude
A 'P' word that describes treating people differently because they are of a different race, religion or culture
What is predjudice?
The island that served as the base of operations during operation Grapple
What is Kiritimati/Christmas Island?
The Scottish City that Dunedin got its name from and shares many similarities with, including street and place names
What is Edinburgh?
The ethnic group that are being ethnically cleansed from Myanmar
What is Rohingya?
The consonant that appears the most times amongst all of the first names in our class
What is 'L'
The New Zealand Prime Minister who issued the apology to the Chinese community on behalf of New Zealand for the discrimination that they faced.
Who is Helen Clark?
The name of the NZ ship that was first sent out to protest at Mururoa
What is the HMNZS Otago
The name of the bird excrement that provided Nauru with its wealths of phosphate
What is Guano?
Also known as 'MMP' this is the name of the system of voting we have here in New Zealand that requires a party to have over 50% of the votes in order to run the country
What is Mixed Member Proportional