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Ch 4 & 5 Migration & Navigation

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