Tiaki's Life

 Questions from the shockwave game - hard

Q1. Over 2 days Tiaki collects nectar from 13 mistletoe plants, 8 flax plants and 24 flowering bushes.  How many plants has she collected nectar from?

a. 3/toru
b. 33/toru tekau ma toru
c. 45/wha tekau ma rima
d. 65/ono tekau ma rima

Q2. Tiaki collects 69 insects and shares them equally between her 3 chicks.  How many insects does each chick get?

a. 23/rua tekau ma toru
b. 33/toru tekau ma toru
c. 66/ono tekau ma ono
d. 207/rua rau ma whitu

Q3. Tiaki collected 16 insects in the morning, and another 38 after a wee sleep.  How many insects has she collected?

a. 48/wha tekau ma waru
b. 44/wha tekau ma wha
c. 54/rima tekau ma wha
d. 64/ono tekau ma wha

Q4. There are 462 fruit on a tree.  Tiaki collects 6 fruit a minute.  If she feeds on the tree for 16 minutes, how many fruit are left?

a. 481/wha rau waru tekau ma tahi
b. 440/wha rau wha tekau
c. 366/toru rau ono tekau ma ono
d. 96/iwa tekau ma ono

Q5.  A shrub has fruit in groups of 4 hanging from each branch.  The shrub has 213 branches.  How many fruit does it have?

a. 217/rua rau tekau ma whitu
b. 320/toru rau rua tekau
c. 842/waru rau wha tekau ma rua
d. 852/waru rau rima tekau ma rua

Q6.  It will get dark in 2 hours.  Tiaki must spend 45 minutes collecting food, 20 minutes with her chicks, 10 minutes preening her feathers, and 5 minutes singing.  How much time does she have left to spend with her friends before it gets dark?

a. 40 minutes/wha tekau meneti
b. 45 minutes/wha tekau ma rima meneti
c. 1 hour/kotahi haora
d. 1 hour 20 minutes/kotahi haora rua tekau meneti

Q7. Tiaki spends 2 hours collecting nectar, 3 hours collecting insects, 30 minutes feeding her chicks and 30 minutes preening her feathers.  How much time has she used up?

a. 5 hours/rima haora
b. 6 hours/ono haora
c. 6 hours 30 minutes/ono haora toru tekau meneti
d. 7 hours/whitu haora

Q8. What process do green plants use to turn sunlight, water and air into energy?

a. magic/mahi atua
b. photoelectricity/whakaahua hiko
c. irradiation/taiapu iratuki
d. photosynthesis/ohotakakame

Q9. What is decomposition?

a. a type of music/he momo puoro
b. nature's way of recycling nutrients/whakapirautanga
c. a group of species found living together/kotahitanga
d. a way of describing the position of an animal underground/te turanga o tetahi kararehe ki rarowhenua

Q10. Which country did possums come from?

a. England/Ingarangi
b. America/Amerika
c. Fiji/Whiti
d. Australia/Ahitereiria

Q11. What is a stoat?

a. carnivore/kaikiko
b. herbivore/kaiotaota
c. frugivore/kaihua
d. omnivore/kaikiota

Q12. What are the only native land mammals in New Zealand?

a. bats/pekapeka
b. frogs/poraka
c. seals/kekeno
d. bats and seals/pekapeka me nga kekeno

Q13. What is the Latin name of the tui?

a. Anthornis melanura
b. Rhipidura fuliginosa
c. Circus approximans
d. Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

Q14. Which word best describes the tui?

a. carnivore/kaikiko
b. herbivore/kaiotaota
c. frugivore/kaihuarakau
d. omnivore/kaikiota

Q15. Sometimes tui have a red-coloured forehead. This is caused by

a. pollen/hae
b. paint/peita
c. blood/toto
d. fruit/huarakau

Q16. What other country do tui live in?

a. Australia/Ahitereiria
b. New Caledonia/Niu Karetonia
c. Fiji/Whiti
d. None/kore

Q17. What does Tiaki feed her chicks?

a. seeds/kakano
b. milk/miraka
c. insects/ngangara
d. leaves/rau

Q18. What is the end of a tui's tongue like?

a. a spoon/pune
b. a brush/paraihe
c. a spatula/koko parai
d. a fork/paoka

Q19. Which insect is not native to New Zealand?

a. stick insect/ro
b. scale insect/ngangara unahi
c. common wasp/wapi
d. ichneumon wasp/wapi

Q20. Which island of New Zealand does not have tui living on it?

a. North Island/Te ika a Maui
b. South Island/Te waka a Maui
c. Chatham Island/Rekohu
d. Campbell Island/Motu Ihupiku

Q21. Which statement is correct?

a. The tui is the smallest of the native honeyeaters/He tino iti rawa te tui o nga manu kai miere
b. The tui never eats insects/E kore e kai nga ngarara
c. The native honeyeaters are tui, bellbird and stitchbird/Ko te korimako, ko te hihi, me te tui e kai miere ana
d. The tui never eats spiders/E kore te tui e kai pungawerewere

Q22. What is the Maori name for the stitchbird?

a. hihi
b. hoiho
c. heihei
d. koko

Q23. What is a Maori name for the bellbird?

a. piwakawaka
b. korimako
c. riroriro
d. tieke

Q24. What is another Maori name for the tui?

a. hoha
b. hihi
c. kaka
d. koko

Q25. Which native tree does not have red flowers?

a. rata
b. rewarewa
c. kohekohe
d. pohutukawa

Q26. What colour are Tiaki's eggs?

a. pale blue/kikorangi koma
b. white with brown splotches/ma me nga paopao parauri
c. speckled brown/parauri kotingotingo
d. pale green/moata

Q27. How would you describe the feathers of the tui?

a. iridescent/whakahinuhinu
b. phosphorescent/hinatore
c. opalescent/opure
d. dull/paru

Q28. What process does the tui help plants with?

a. decomposition/whakapopotanga
b. pollination/whakahaetanga
c. photosynthesis/ohotakakame
d. nutrition/kai whakakaha

Q29. What bird family are tui in?

a. whistler/kaiwhio
b. warbler/korihirihi
c. lark/pihoihoi
d. honeyeater/kaimiere

Q30. What is metamorphosis?

a. the arrival of aliens from outer space/whakatau nga tangata atea
b. when insects change from larvae to adults/te hangawainga o nga ngangara mai i te huhu ki te pakeke
c. a way that plants gain energy/te pungao o nga otaota
d. the fight for resources/te whawhai mo nga rawa taiao