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What is the name of the giant eagle that used to live in New Zealand?
Haast's eagle
What is New Zealand's capitol city?
Wellington
Name three Polynesian societies where tattoos were traditional?
Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian, Hawaiian and Maori.
What is Whakairo?
Traditional Maori Carving
What are the cardinal directions?
North, East, South, West.
What were two of the factors that helped Polynesians spread across the ocean?
Birds, Stars, Weather/Wind, Improved Canoe Technology
Which country do the Maori come from?
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
What is an Atau?
A fisherman God from The Cook Islands?
What is a Moko?
A traditional Maori Tattoo
Name FOUR countries that are part of Polynesia?
Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Cook Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Solomon Islands, Niue, Hawaii, Tahiti and New Caledonia.
Which Polynesian island has the huge heads made of stone?
Easter Island (Papa Nui)
Which is the Polynesian term for Easter Island?
Rapa Nui
True or False: Polynesians spread from South America to South-East Asia?
False
When did the Maori reach New Zealand?
1270-1290CE
What is the submerged continent that New Zealand is a part of?
Zealandia
What is the name of the islands that form from dead coral reefs
Atolls
What is the Polynesian word for Canoe?
Waka
What is the name of the giant, extinct bird from New Zealand?
Moa
What is the Maori name for New Zealand?
Aotearoa
Where is Polynesia?
A group of Islands in the Pacific Ocean.