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WorksheetsAotearoa History Show
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is this show about?
The people of Aotearoa.
The Animals of Aotearoa.
The History of Aotearoa.
The bad things that have happened in Aotearoa.
What are the names of the sky Father and the land Mother?
Ranginui and Papatūanuku,
Tane and Ranginui
Mau and Tangaroa
Ranginui and Tane
How long ago was New Zealand formed?
A million years ago.
A thousand years ago
A thousand million years ago.
100 million years ago.
The movement of what caused Zealandia?
An earthquake.
Super Magna heated and stretched the continent of Gondwana.
A volcanic eruption
It popped up out of the sea.
Why were the Dinosaurs on Zealandia weird?
They were very small because NZ is small.
They all had to learn how to swim to get to NZ
It was very cold so they were very hairy.
They had to live in the dark for six months of the year so they had big eyes and lots of fur.
What caused 80%of living things to die in the age of Dinosaurs?
A large Asteroid hit the Earth.
A virus called the Flu arrived and killed everything.
Water flooded all the land during a large storm.
Volcanoes erupted everywhere and killed all the Animals.
When did the Maori arrive in New Zealand?
100 years ago.
1 million years ago
700 years ago.
2000 years ago
What killed off the mammals on New Zealand?
New Zealand went under water.
The Dinosaurs ate them.
They all swam away.
We have no idea it's a big mystery.
What dominated New Zealand land instead of Mammals?
Flightless birds
Insects
Birds
Fish
Why did many birds that had flown to New Zealand loose the ability to fly?
Their were no Mammals to eat them so they didn't have to fly to protect themselves.
They were lazy.
They were to tired to fly once they landed here.
They liked the food on the ground better.
2.6 million years ago the world fell into a series of ice ages what did what to the New Zealand landscape?
Glaciers grew
Glaciers carved out huge valleys in the Southern Alps
Tropical trees got replaced by Rimu and Totara trees and ferns.
Glaciers melted and formed huge lakes.
All of the above
What is global Warming?
Rise in the temperature.
Rises in surface temperatures.
Lower in the land temperature
Lower in the air temperature
When Magna bubbles up from the centre of the earth and spurts through the earths crust what do we call it?
Mud pool.
Steam.
Earth Quake
Volcanic eruption.
A super volcanic eruption happened about 5000 years ago in New Zealand but where exactly?
The North Island.
Wellington.
The South Island.
Taupo
What was the last big event that changed the face of New Zealand's landscape.
Another Volcanic eruption that caused big fires.
Massive fires lite by human beings.
Another massive Asteroid.
New Zealand sank into the sea.
