Oceania: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia

The Greek name for this group of islands means “black islands”

• Polynesia

• Melanesia

• Micronesia

• Birenesia

Hawaiian word for family

• Family

• Fam

• relatives

• Ohana

This group of islands is larger than the other two groups put together; its name means “many islands

• Polynesia

• Fiji

• Hawaii

• Macronesia

king or queen of royal birth

• diversity

• Monarch

• Tonga

• Prince and Princess

Boiled and pounded taro root

• Tretas

• FuFu

• lysol

• Poi

The power or force that all things have

• Spirits

• Power

• Mana

• Mauna Loa

the largest active volcano in the world; its named means "Long Mountain"

• Jefferson Mountains

• Fiji Flapjack

• Mauna Loa

• Carribean Islands

dried coconut

• Soy

• copra

• Apple meat

• coconut fruit

island located north of Melanesia and east of Asia

• Macronesia

• Micronesia

• Hawaii

• Arkansas

Tropical Storm that Hit the Pacific islands each year

• Typhoons

• monsoons

• Tsuanami

• Rainfall