The Maori are the indigenous people of which country?
- A.Australia
- B.New Zealand
- C.Papua New Guinea
- D.Fiji
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, New Zealand. The Maori are the Polynesian people who settled New Zealand before European contact. Their ceremonial war dance, the haka, is widely known, their meeting house is the marae, and the Maori language is one of the official languages of New Zealand, which they call Aotearoa.
Option A, Australia, is the home of the Aborigines, known for the boomerang, the didgeridoo and rock art, who are a different people from the Maori. Option C, Papua New Guinea, is inhabited by the many Papuan groups of the highlands and coast. Option D, Fiji, is a Melanesian country with its own indigenous iTaukei population. The pairing to remember is Maori with New Zealand and Aborigine with Australia. Two more Pacific pairs are worth carrying: the Papuans belong to New Guinea and the Polynesians to the scattered islands of the central Pacific, from Hawaii to Samoa and Tonga.
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- A.The savanna of Kenya and Tanzania
- B.The Kalahari desert
- C.The Congo rainforest
- D.The Sahel of West Africa
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- B.The equatorial forest of the Congo basin
- C.The Australian outback
- D.The Siberian tundra
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- A.Thar
- B.Atacama
- C.Kalahari
- D.Gobi
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- A.The Arabian desert
- B.The Amazon basin
- C.The steppes of Ukraine
- D.The highlands of New Guinea
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- A.Yak
- B.Reindeer
- C.Llama
- D.Camel
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