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MigrationNavigation
Ch 4 & 5 Migration & Navigation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dark skinned people who settled in New Guinea about 40,000 years ago. Later they moved to the Solomon Islands. | Australoids |
| People who came from Asia about 4,000 years ago | Austronesians |
| The arts, beliefs, and customs of a people | Culture |
| The movement or flow of masses of water in the ocean | Current |
| Material in cells that is passed from parents to their children. Newest method being used to understand where early Pacific islanders came from | DNA |
| Moving from one country to settle in another | Migration |
| The art or skill of sailing where you want to go | Navigation |
| Lapita pottery is used to study | Where people settled and traded |
| Example of what scientists used to settled the Pacific. | Lapita pottery, Racial studies, DNA studies and language studies |
| Examples of why early islanders left Southeast Asia. | War, Looking for better resources, overcrowding |
| Pacific Island mapping: Where did the Australoid and Austronesian migrations begin? | Southeast Asia |
| Pacific Island mapping: Where was Lapita Pottery found? | Tonga, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Southeast Asia, |
| Pacific Island mapping: Within the Polynesian Triangle, which 2 islands made many migrations? | Marquesas Islands and Tahiti |
| Tahiti is a part of what Polynesian island group? | Society Islands |
| 3 corners of the Polynesian Triangle are? | Hawai`i, New Zealand and Easter Island |
| Aotearoa | New Zealand |
| Rapa Nui | Easter Island |
| What South American plant was found in the Pacific Islands? | Sweet Potato |
| What is the safest direction to search for new islands in an unknown ocean? | Upwind (into the wind) |
| Where do most scientists think the ancestors of today's Pacific islanders came from? | Southeast Asia |
| Main form of transportation for most Pacific islanders | Outrigger canoes |
| Tool that can help you know in which direction you are going, but not where you are | Compass |
| Pacific island navigators use for telling direction during the daytime | Undersea Reefs |
| Method used during the daytime and on cloudy nights for telling direction | Feel of Waves |
| If see, means land is near | Land Nesting Birds |
| Helps island navigators know how strong currents are | Shape of Waves |
| Starting from a known position and then heading in the direction of where you want to go | Dead Reckoning |
| Used by island navigators (before Europeans came) to tell direction - used to navigate | Wayfinding: Stars Sun, Moon, dead reckoning, Waves. Currents, Undersea Reefs, and Seabirds |
| Undersea Reefs, Waves, Clouds, or Birds, Which can be used to tell exact position? | Undersea reefs |
| Lines tell how far north or south of the equator you are | Latitude |
| Most important star in the northern hemisphere because it is always in the same place | North Star |
| Lines tell how far east or west you are | Longitude |
| At sunset, the land-nesting seabirds head directly for their island - true or false | True |
| Outrigger canoes are flimsy and not very good in the open ocean - true of false | False |
| Mau Piailug, a Micronesian Master navigator came from where in the Federated States of Micronesia | Satawal Atoll in Yap State |
| Mau was asked to navigate the ________________ on its first voyage to ______ in _____ | Hokule`a; to Tahiti ; in 1976 |
| Name 2 of 5 PWO Navigators | Nainoa Thompson, Chadd Paishon, Bruce Blankenfeld, Kalepa Baybayan, Shorty Bertelmann |
| What is the name of the box that holds the kitchen gear on the wa'a? | Galley Box |
| What ocean did Hokule`a go through in 2015? | Indian |
| What 2 capes in South Africa did Hokule`a visit? | Cape Town and Cape of Good Hope |
| In 2016, which ocean will Hokule`a be sailing into? | Atlantic |
Created by:
MrsJM
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