Ch 2: Cold Lands of North

Question 0

What are glaciers?

Answer 0

Large masses of ice that flow slowly over land

Question 1

What is another name for the northern lights?

Answer 1

Aurora borealis

Question 2

From where do most of the Northern Hemisphere’s icebergs originate?

Answer 2

western Greenland

Question 3

Why is the fur seal an important animal to people of the Arctic?

Answer 3

It is used for food, clothing, light and heat

Question 4

Why is the tundra called “The Land of the Midnight Sun”?

Answer 4

There are days during the summer when the sun never sets

Question 5

What is the name used for permanently frozen ground?

Answer 5

Permafrost

Question 6

What are the people of northern Alaska called?

Answer 6

Eskimos

Question 7

What are the people of Greenland and northern Canada called?

Answer 7

Inuits

Question 8

How did people travel over snow and ice?

Answer 8

Dog sleds

Question 9

What kinds of boats did Inuits/Eskimos use?

Answer 9

Kayaks and umiaks, which were boats made of skins stretched over a frame

Question 10

Why have many Eskimos moved into towns and villages?

Answer 10

There are not enough animals for them to hunt

Question 11

Who was the famous missionary who went to the Canadian Inuits and their neighbors?

Answer 11

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Question 12

What two terms are used for the vast forest that covers much of northern Canada and Alaska?

Answer 12

Boreal forest, taiga

Question 13

How did the Indians use the paper birch?

Answer 13

They used the papery bark for canoes and baskets and as a substitute for paper

Question 14

Which animal has done the most to shape the landscape of North America?

Answer 14

the beaver

Question 15

Name five American Indian tribes of the Far North.

Answer 15

Cree, Ottawa, Yellowknife, Beaver, Ojibwa

Question 16

How did the children of the people of the Far North learn how to survive?

Answer 16

Their parents taught them what they needed to know

Question 17

What do we call the area between the North Pole and the northern timberline of Europe, North America and Asia?

Answer 17

Arctic

Question 18

What is the smallest and coldest ocean?

Answer 18

Arctic Ocean

Question 19

What is the world’s largest island, and the main source of icebergs in the Northern Hemisphere?

Answer 19

Greenland

Question 20

What is the treeless Arctic plains north of the timberline?

Answer 20

Tundra

Question 21

What is a kayak?

Answer 21

A one-man boat constructed of seal skin stretched over a frame

Question 22

What is a harpoon?

Answer 22

A spearlike weapon made of wood or bone with a barbed head used for hunting

Question 23

What is the taiga?

Answer 23

Northern woods south of the tundra

Question 24

What is pemmican?

Answer 24

A mixture of dried meat pounded together with fat and berries

Question 25

What is a piece of a glacier that has broken off into the sea?

Answer 25

Iceberg

Question 26

What is the thick layer of fat found on fur seals?

Answer 26

Blubber

Question 27

What are long, hooded jackets made of fur?

Answer 27

Parkas

Question 28

What are cone-bearing trees called?

Answer 28

Conifers

Question 29

What are tree called that keep their leaves all year long?

Answer 29

Evergreens

Question 30

What are the most numerous and varied trees in the world?

Answer 30

Broadleaf

Question 31

What are trees called that lose their leaves in autumn?

Answer 31

Deciduous

Question 32

Who was the Viking who founded the first European settlement in Greenland?

Answer 32

Erik the Red

Question 33

Which sea bird migrates farther than any other bird?

Answer 33

Arctic tern

Question 34

What is another term for North American reindeer?

Answer 34

Caribou

Question 35

What are lemmings?

Answer 35

Little rodents that look like fat, round mice

Question 36

What is North America's largest rodent?

Answer 36

the beaver

Question 37

What bird of prey is also called the "king of the birds"?

Answer 37

Golden eagle

Question 38

What bird is known as the "white-headed" bird?

Answer 38

Bald eagle

Question 39

What is the timberline?

Answer 39

The point beyond which trees cannot grow

Question 40

What is another name for the aurora borealis?

Answer 40

Northern lights

Question 41

Name the coldest regions of the earth.

Answer 41

Frigid zones

Question 42

Name the snow house usually built for temporary shelter while traveling.

Answer 42

Igloo

Question 43

What another term for "taiga?"

Answer 43

Boreal forest