Question

Micronesia is an archipelago of islands in the South Pacific that is drastically affected by the weather patterns in the region. With regularity, storms destroy their homes and droughts threaten their crops, yet Micronesians continue to adjust to their difficult environment. Identify the ways in which Micronesian culture has adapted to help people survive in their fluctuating climate.

Answer 1

Answer: Tourism, migration from rural areas to towns and out-migration.

Explanation: As the affirmative sentence above, the Micronesia, archipelago of more than 2,000 Islands in the South Pacific, is affected by the specific weather patterns of this region. Most of these Islands that make up Micronesia territory are located in low coral attols; the western of it’s local was formed by volcanic activity; are subjected to cyclones, the known El Niño fenomenum and also by global warming, remaining a small portion of productive land for agriculture, even for subsistence.

The Micronesians always had to find ways to survive in their fluctuating climate. The tourism is one way to atract people to come visit the Islands and creates, at the same time, employees to your people.

Considering the scarce land, a lot of Micronesians migrated from rural rural areas to towns looking for jobs, leaving aside the subsistence economy. But, the one’s who can’t find a job, out-migrated, specially to Guam, Saipan and Hawaii.