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| Which has the bigger land area of NZ and the UK? |
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| List the human populations to the nearest million of NZ, UK and Japan. |
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| How many stars and what colour are the stars on the NZ and Aus flags? |
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NZ= 5, red with silver lining
Aus= 6, white |
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| Name NZ's three pacific territories with automatic citizenship rights. |
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| Name NZ's current capitol and when it became capitol, along with the three previous capitols. |
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Wellington 1865
Russle
Auckland
Sydney |
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| Name NZ's largest lake by area. |
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Most large lakes in the North Island result from what geological process?
Most large lakes in the South Island result from what geological process? |
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North= Volcanic
South= Glacial |
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Name the large North Island river modified by hydro dams.
name the dams. |
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Waikato
Aratiatia, Ohakuri, Atiamuri, Whakamaru, Maraetai, Waipapa, Arapuni and Karapiro. |
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| Name two south island rivers. |
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Clutha
Waitaki
clarence
rikaia
rangitiki |
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List the ethnicity that had the greatest influence on the following:
Dunedin, Christchurch, Aokoroa and Dannyvirk. |
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Dunedin= Scottish
Christchurch= English
Aokoroa= French
Dannyvirk= Scandinavian |
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| Name the prehistorical continent that NZ separated from. |
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| What evidence exists supporting the Oruanui eruption 27,000 years ago? |
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| Writers recorded the even in Rome and China |
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| Why was NZ described by King as a "lader of protein"? |
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| due to it's abundance of Moas other large birds and sea food that had evolved with out preditors and was thus easy to capture. |
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| Which academic popularised the "great fleet" myth? |
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| Percy Smith in the journal of pacific studys |
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| In which ways did the early European explorers aid the Maoris? |
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| Giving them access to pigs and potatoes which they could later trade |
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| Why did wellington chiefs grant the NZ company land? |
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| To gain protection from Te Ropraha's raiding parties |
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| Which economic systems allowed the growth of the wellington region after the failure of the Wakefield scheme? |
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| Why did Pastoralism grow so fast? |
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The connection to the Australian market.
The political environment of local government.
"The founders fee" or the natural fertility in the soil that had yet to have been depleted. |
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| What ecological and technological developments allowed the inclusion of manatu into Wellington? |
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| The railway, refrigerated shipping (HMS Dunedin was the first) and the merino sheep |
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| Name three advantages the Maori had over the Aboriginal counterparts. |
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| Guns, Numbers(there were more maori than pakeha) and the early right to vote |
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