Tiaki's Life

 Questions from the shockwave game - medium

Q1. What is the name for the feathers that tui chicks have?

a. fluff/perehunga
b. fuzz/putete
c. down/huruhuru
d. foliage/raurau

Q2. Which animal is a competitor of Tiaki?

a. bellbird/korimako
b. stoat/tori ura
c. harrier/kahu
d. cat/ngeru

Q3. Are worms

a. predators/kaikoniho
b. competitors/kaiwhakataetae
c. omnivores/kaikiota
d. decomposers/whakapirau

Q4. Which bird is not a honeyeater?

a. parson bird/tui
b. saddleback/tieke
c. stitchbird/hihi
d. bellbird/korimako

Q5. Which is the smallest bird: tui (31 cm long), sparrow (14 cm long), bellbirds (21 cm long), or fantails (16 cm long)?

a. sparrow/tiu
b. tui/parson bird
c. fantail/piwaiwaka
d. bellbird/korimako

Q6. Tiaki collects 8 insects and shares them equally between her 2 chicks.  How many insects does each chick get?

a. 1 insect/kotahi te ngangara
b. 2 insects/rua ngangara
c. 4 insects/wha ngangara
d. 8 insects/waru ngangara

 Q7. Tiaki had 2 chicks every year for 3 years.  How many chicks has she had?

a. 3 chicks/toru pipi
b. 5 chicks/rima pipi
c. 6 chicks/ono pipi
d. 9 chicks/iwa pipi

Q8. Tiaki collected 6 insects in the morning, and another 4 after a wee sleep.  How many insects has she collected?

a. 8 insects/e waru ngangara
b. 10 insects/tekau ngangara
c. 12 insects/tekau ma rua ngangara
d. 24 insects/rua tekau ma wha ngangara

Q9. One morning Tiaki collects nectar from 5 mistletoe plants, 3 flax plants and 4 flowering bushes.  How many plants has she collected nectar from?

a. 12 plants/tekau ma rua otaota
b. 19 plants/tekau ma iwa otaota
c. 20 plants/rua tekau otaota
d. 22 plants/rua tekau ma rua otaota

Q10.  A small shrub has fruit in groups of four hanging from each branch.  The shrub has 5 branches.  How many fruit does it have?

a. 4/wha
b. 5/rima
c. 9/iwa
d. 20/rua tekau

Q11. Tiaki knows she has 1 hour to collect food.  How many minutes are in 1 hour?

a. 10 minutes/tekau meneti
b. 30 minutes/toru tekau meneti
c. 50 minutes/rima tekau meneti
d. 60 minutes/ono tekau meneti

Q12. Tiaki finds a tree with funny shaped leaves.  They only have 3 sides.  What shape are they?

a. squares/tapawha
b. trimarans/waka takere toru
c. circles/porowhita
d. triangles/tapatoru

Q13. Tiaki collects 24 insects and shares them equally between her 4 chicks.  How many insects does each chick get?

a. 6/ono
b. 9/iwa
c. 12/tekau ma rua
d. 15/tekau ma rima

Q14. Tiaki collected 8 insects in the morning, and another 9 after a wee sleep.  How many insects has she collected?

a. 2/rua
b. 13/tekau ma toru
c. 17/tekau ma whitu
d. 72/whitu tekau ma rua

Q15.  A shrub has fruit in groups of 8 hanging from each branch.  The shrub has 20 branches.  How many fruit does it have?

a. 28/rua tekau ma waru
b. 88/waru tekau ma waru
c. 120/kotahi rau, rua tekau
d. 160/kotahi rau, ono tekau

Q16. A wasp builds its nest with cells to grow larvae in.  Each cell has six sides.  What shape are the cells?

a. square/tapawha
b. hexagonal /tapaono
c. heptagonal/tapawhitu
d. pentagonal/taparima

Q17. Tiaki spends 2 hours collecting nectar, 30 minutes collecting insects, 15 minutes feeding her chicks and 15 minutes preening her feathers and 1 hour having a sleep.  How much time has she used up?

a. 3 hours/toru haora
b. 3 hours 45 minutes/toru haora, wha tekau ma rima meneti
c. 3 hours 50 minutes/toru haora, rima tekau meneti
d. 4 hours/wha haora

Q18. Which is the largest of the following birds?

a. fantail/piwaiwaka
b. parrot/kaka
c. bellbird/korimako
d. parson bird/tui

Q19. Which group do spiders belong to?

a. insects/ngangara
b. arachnids/pungawerewere
c. mites/moroiti
d. wasps/wapi

Q20.  Which of the following animals are introduced to New Zealand?

a. tui/parson bird
b. bellbirds/korimako
c. possums/paihamu
d. huhu grubs/larva

Q21. How long do tui eggs take to hatch?

a. 3 days/toru ra
b. 14 days/tekau ma wha ra
c. 2 months/rua marama
d. 9 months/iwa marama

Q22. Which animal is an introduced predator of tui?

a. fox/pokiha
b. morepork/ruru
c. stoat/tori ura
d. fantail/piwaiwaka

Q23. Which animal is not a mammal?

a. possum/paihamu
b. stoat/tori ura
c. magpie/timohina
d. rat/kiore

Q24. Which animal is an introduced competitor of tui?

a. wasp/wapi
b. worm/noke
c. weasel/tori uaroa
d. cat/ngeru

Q25. Which of these foods does Tiaki eat?

a. leaves/rau
b. honeydew/waimiere
c. eggs/huamanu
d. minties/rare

Q26. What is another common name of the tui?

a. blackbird/manu pango
b. glossy whistler/whiore whakahinuhinu
c. bellbird/korimako
d. parson bird/koko

Q27. How many eggs does a tui usually lay in a clutch?

a. 1/kotahi
b. 4/wha
c. 6/ono
d. 8/waru

Q28. Where do tui live?

a. seashore/tatahi
b. wetlands/whenua maku
c. forest/ngahere
d. mountain tops/taumata

Q29. Honeydew is produced by

a. scale insects/ngangara unahi
b. wasps/wapi
c. beech trees/tawhairakau
d. flowers/puawai

Q30. Which of these organisms is an omnivore?

a. cat/ngeru
b. kereru/pigeon
c. possum/paihamu
d. stoat/tori ura

Q31. Which way does a tui's beak curve?

a. up/ki runga ake
b. down/ki raro
c. left/maui
d. right/matau