"Where No Boat Could Live"

1. Where is Chatham Island, and what is the weather like there?

Answer:Chatham island is in New Zealand, and the weather there is quite dangerous.

2. Who were the first people to arrive there? How did they get there?

Answer:The first people to arrive there were the Moriori. They got there in huge double-hulled canoes.

3. How did the Moriori live? Give some example of what they did to survive?

Answer:They travelled to find some food. Most of the food were food they have never eaten.

4. What is a wash - through waka? What was it used for?

Answer:A wash through waka is a waka that could carry heavy loads and a large number of people.

5. Why were the waka korai and the waka paging so special?

Answer:They were special because both the waka korari and the waka pahi were perfectly suited to the local conditions, even though visiting European sailors thought the smaller waka looks like wheelbarrows.

6. What do the words ballast and capsize mean?

Answer:Ballast means heavy material, such as gravel, placed low in a vessel to improve its stability. The word capsize means (of a boat) Overturn in the water: "the craft capsized in heavy seas"; "gale-force gusts capsized the dinghies".

7. Please give a brief summary of the article.

Answer:Where the Boat Could Live is a story about the Moriori people visited the Chatham Island, and how they decided to live there, and how they survived.

8. Why were the Moriori considered backward?

Answer:I consider that the Moriori people can be very smart because they make really difficult boats, and they survive the hard way of finding food to live.

9. What do you think about the skills and designs of the Moriori and why? Please upload questions 7,8,& 9 to your blog with a picture to support your ideas.

I think the skills and the designs were made perfectly. I love the way the boats were looking. I love to see their braveness when they’re in the water finding food. They were very smart when they were building their wash-through waka.