Social Studies - Year 9

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Macleans College : Describe the EMBLEM

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CASTLE - represents the Macleans family back in Scotland.
SEA - represents the sea Macleans overlooks + a new area + new technology.

Front 2

True or False

Is Macleans College a mixture of OLD and NEW?

Back 2

True

Old fashioned values (please, thank you, ladies first).

New, - new buildings and new technology.

Front 3

What does VIRTUE MINE HONOR mean?

Back 3

It means, we are honest and do everything with integrity. It is good to do the right thing.

Front 4

Who is Macleans College named after?

Back 4

It is named after the brothers (Robert, Every & Benjamin Macleans) who farmed the very land the school is sited on (around 1850).

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What year was Macleans College opened?

Back 5

1980

Front 6

What is Macleans College based on?

Back 6

It is based on a Whanau system. Whanau means family in Maori.

Front 7

How many Whanau families are there at Macleans College?

Back 7

8

Front 8

Name the 3 principals of Macleans College AND the year's they held office from.

Back 8

1980 - 1989 Colin Prentice
1989 - 2000 Allen MacDonald
2000 - present BJ Bently

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What does MACLEANS "stand" for?

Back 9

M - anners
A - rticulate
C - ourage
L - oyalty
E - ffort 100%
A - uthority respected
N - o lies
S - ympathy / service

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Define FAMINE

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Famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including crop failure, population unbalance, or government policies.

Basically a lack of "something" in a country

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What does S.P.E.N.T stand for?

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S - Social
P - Political
E - Economical
N - Natural
T - Technological

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Expound SOCIAL

Back 12

Social - the level of development in a society

Example: number of people per hospital bed / death or birth rate

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Expound POLITICAL

Back 13

Political - whether a country has a good honest government or not

Example: military spending / women's rights

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Expound ECONOMICAL

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Economical - how much money a country is producing and in turn how much money they are making.

Example: Sealed roads / National Debt

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Expound NATURAL

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Natural - the amount of resources the country has

Example: Coal / Oil / Gold /

Anything that is natural, not man made

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Expound TECHNOLOGICAL

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Technological - how advanced the country is in terms of technology

Example: Internet access / mobile phone use

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What does M.E.D.C stand for?

Back 17

More Economically Developed Country

Front 18

Name a M.E.D.C country

Back 18

U.S.A
England

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What does L.E.D.C stand for?

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Less Economically Developed Country

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Name a L.E.D.C country

Back 20

Ethiopia
Ghana

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What is the DIFFERENCE between a M.E.D.C and L.E.D.C country?

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MEDC's have no corruption, good access to S.P.E.N.T factors, no civil war and possibly have loans.

LEDC's have more government corruption, bad access to S.P.E.N.T factors, civil war and huge debt

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What tells us whether a country is a MEDC or a LEDC?

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INDICATORS tell us which factors are making a country MEDC or LEDC

Example: Development / National Debt / Socioeconomic factors

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What is DESERTIFICATION ?

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Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry land region becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.

It is caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and human activities.

Desertification is a significant global ecological and environmental problem.

Front 24

Give an example of Desertification due to human activities

Back 24

Livestock trampling land, destroying grass turning it into dirt

Trees being cut down for fuel = no shade = dry earth

Front 25

Where did the Maori come from?

Back 25

Maori came to NZ from a Polynesian Island, thousands of years ago.

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What is the South American Theory about where Maori came from?

Back 26

Thor Heyerdahl (Norwegian) theorizes that Maori came from the east coast of South America to Polynesia on a Balsa raft.

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What is Thor Heyerdahl's theory based on?

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Heyerdahl theory was based on the wind and currents and Kumera originally from South America found on the Polynesian Islands (he bases is on the name rather than the veg). Heyerdahl also found the Polynesians similar in statue to the South Americans.

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What is the Asian Theory about where Maori came from?

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Polynesian languages belong to the Austronesian language family. The words a similar.

Polynesians were said to have Island hopped from Taiwan (homeland) to the Philippines / Malaysia / Papa New Guinea / Solomon Islands and then to Polynesian Islands (Rarotonga).

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What is an ADZE?

Back 29

An adze is an ancient type of edge tool dating back to the stone age.

Adzes are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking.

It is assumed that this tool came all the way from the Philippines to Polynesia.

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Who sailed from Gilbert Island (Asia) to Fiji (Polynesia) and WHY?

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New Zealander, Jim Siers, sailed from Gilbert Island in 1976 to Fiji to prove you could get from Asia to Polynesia AGAINST the winds and currents. The voyage was done in a traditional 24m canoe. Jim sailed over 2400km within a year.