Geography Assignments

-Moriori Island Project

Chatham Island Map

Chatham Island Map Directions

Recreate Chatham Island in pen and color

Step one: Title map Chatham Island

Step two: Make a key with all of the geography symbols

Step three: Place a compass rose and label Pacific Ocean

Step four: Label all of the following with name and symbol

Hanson Bay

Petre Bay

Lake Rangitai

Lake Huro

Te Whanga Lagoon

Owenga Village

Waitangi Village

Te One Village

Old Man Reef

Island Reef

Renweeks Reef

Manukau Reef

Heaphy Shoal

Makara River

Nairin River

Maunaganui Beach

Mihitoroa Point

Point Munning

Taupeka Point

Okawa Point

Point Durham

Napper Point

Point Gap

Mt. Chudliegh

Mt. Maungatere’i

Moriori Island Geography Terms

Geography term	Definition	Draw It	What is it used for?
Bay
Valley
Mountain
River
Lake
Cape
midden
volcanic island
lagoon
Moriori
village
shoal

Moriori Island Pocket Map Guide

Part A: My Moriori Island

1. What is the theme of your island? Example: Care Bears

2. What is the name of your island? Example: Care Bear Island

3. Is your island a volcanic island or a continental island?

4. Where is it located? (Which nesia?)

5. Where is it located in relation to another island? What islands is it near? Example: South of Hawaii

6. What is the area of your island? Example: New Zealand is 103,337 square miles and Kauai is 562 square miles

Part B: Give names to your geographic terms. Names must match your theme

Example: Bay Big Bear Bay

7. Bay

8. Hill

9. Mountain

10. Lagoon

11. Lake

12. River

13. Point

14. Shoal

15. Reef

16. Village

17. Midden

18. Valley

19. Cape

-Make your own island!

Moriori Island Checklist

__ title __name __period

___ legend/key __compass rose

___pen ___color

All of the following on the map:

__mountain __hill __lagoon __bay

__lake __river __point __shoal

__reef __village __midden __point

__ cape

-How to write your essay directions!

How do I turn an outline into an essay? Step 1- Answer the questions on the outline paper Step 2- Turn the facts into complete sentences Example…

outline

essay

I. Introduction

a. Name of island

b. Name of cultural group that lives on the island? Moriori

c. Where is it located? (Which nesia?)

d. Where is it located in comparison to a real island? North South East or West of…

e. What is the area of your island in square miles?

f. What is the name of the main village?

g. Where is the village located? Next to which geographic features?

h. List the names and locations of four important geographic features on your island:

i. What natural resources does the island have?

j. Are your island’s inhabitants’ hunters and gatherers or farmers? (Only one correct answer!)

k. Does your island have farming? NO

l. How does the geography of your island determine that there can be no farming?

m. How does the geography of your island determine that its people will be hunters and gatherers?

The name of my island is Moriori Island. The cultural group that lives on the island are known as the Moriori. The island is located at eighteen degrees south latitude and one hundred and thirty five degrees west longitude. It is South of Hawaii. Moriori Island is 500 square miles. The main village is Volcom Village. Four important geographic features that Moriori use everyday are Big Wave Bay, Point Break Point, Hurley Hill, and Lost Lagoon.Moriori Island's natural resources include Karaka Trees, seals, penguins,abatross, fish,and other sea-life.The Moriori are hunters and gatherers because the islands geography and weather make it difficult to farm. Just like Chatham Island seveteen percent of Moriori Island is a lagoon, there are two bays, eight points, six capes, and the land is covered in hills and mountains. That is why its people are a society of hunters and gatherers.

Moriori Acrostic Sentences

Directions: Write accurate facts about the Moriori

Moriori believed in a peace called “Nunuku”.

Island Essay Rubric

Advanced	Proficient	Partially Proficient	Novice
My Essay:___explains with great detail the relationship between economic activities and the physical and human characteristics of places in Oceania___paragraph 1 – introduces island with relative and absolute location___paragraph 2- explains the relative location of 5 geographic features on his/her island___paragraph 3- explains the economic uses of five geographic features___paragraph 4- explains where the 5 factors of human settlement are found in geography (using several specific examples per factor)___paragraph 5 explains how geography influences demography with specific examples	My Essay is deficient in one of the following:___explains with great detail the relationship between economic activities and the physical and human characteristics of places in Oceania___paragraph 1 – introduces island with relative and absolute location___paragraph 2- explains the relative location of 5 geographic features on his/her island___paragraph 3- explains the economic uses of five geographic features___paragraph 4- explains where the 5 factors of human settlement are found in geography (using several specific examples per factor)___paragraph 5 explains how geography influences demography with specific examples	My Essay is deficient in two of the following:___explains with great detail the relationship between economic activities and the physical and human characteristics of places in Oceania___paragraph 1 – introduces island with relative and absolute location___paragraph 2- explains the relative location of 5 geographic features on his/her island___paragraph 3- explains the economic uses of five geographic features___paragraph 4- explains where the 5 factors of human settlement are found in geography (using several specific examples per factor)___paragraph 5 explains how geography influences demography with specific examples	My Essay is deficient in three or more of the following:___explains with great detail the relationship between economic activities and the physical and human characteristics of places in Oceania___paragraph 1 – introduces island with relative and absolute location___paragraph 2- explains the relative location of 5 geographic features on his/her island___paragraph 3- explains the economic uses of five geographic features___paragraph 4- explains where the 5 factors of human settlement are found in geography (using several specific examples per factor)___paragraph 5 explains how geography influences demography with specific examples

-Here's a Historic Hawaii sign, can you see your vocab word?