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History 6th
Ch.2- Cold Land
Question | Answer |
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the North Pole and the surrounding area that lies between | Arctic |
the point that trees can not grow any more because the extreme cold weather | timberline |
in the far north lies, aurora borealis OR | northern lights |
the smallest and coldest ocean on the earth | Arctic Ocean |
the water that has turned into ice and will slide down the mountain is called | Glaciers |
a small piece of a glacier that has been broken | iceberg |
tiny plant and animals that live in Arctic ocean | Plankton |
small whales whose males have a single spiraled | narwhals |
some of the world's largest carnivores | polar bear |
strange looking birds that spent time swimming for food in the Arctic | Puffins |
well equipped animals who live in the arctic ocean | Fur seals |
a fat layer of skin called | blubber |
what is the main source of the Western Hemisphere's ice burgs | Western Greenland |
Eris the _________a _________from Norway, founded the island's first European settlement | red and Viking |
the treeless Arctic Ocean plains north of the timberline form a region called the | tundra |
Most of the tundra is north of the Arctic Circle, in the north | Frigid Zone |
the tundra's nikename | "land of the Midnight sun" |
permanently frozen ground is called | permafrost |
wich too plants are needed to make up the plant called lichens | fingi and algea |
the word's smallest tree | Arctic willow |
insome places the Arctic willow only grows to the height of | 2 inches |
a bird that migrates farther than any other bird | sea |
the sea bird migrates around how many miles per year | 22,000 WOW!!! |
a bird that has on its feet a mat oof short feathers that serve as snowshoes in the snow | ptarmigan |
tree types of birds that also live on the tundra | snowy owl gulls snow goose canada goose |
are large cattle like animals that standabout five feet tall | musk oxen |
North American reindeer | caribou |
this animal hunt birds in the short Arctic summer and is a memmber of the dog family | Actic Wolf |
little rodents that look like fat, round mice | lemmings |
an Indian word that means "eater of raw meat" | Eskimos |
a word which mean "the people" | Inuits |
their main food was | meat |
their most common types of meats | seal and caribou |
freezing temperatures forced to so that the Eskimos and Inuits to wear heavy clothing almost all | year around |
"boots" water proof boots that re made out of seal skin | mukluks |
long,hooded jackets made from many different types of fur | parkas |
a large open boat also made of skin stretched over the frame; used for long hunting trips | umiak |
snow houses and sod | igloos |
the______ is the only kind of animal that was domesticated "tamed" well trained for transportation | dog |
gave a good inhabitants of the of the arctic a good way to travel over ice and snow | dog sled |
what eskimos and Inuits use for transporation instead of dogs to pull their sleds | snowmobiles |
a one-man boat constructed of seal skin stretched over a frame | kayak |
a barbed head attached to a long shaft; made of wood or bone | harpoons |
who was responsible to bring written language to the eskimos and inuits | missionaries |
the most famous missionary to the Canadian inuits | Sir Wilfred Genfell of England |
a russian word meaning "forest", referring to the cold northern woods | taiga |
another common word referring to the cold northern woods; boreal means northern | boreal forest |
the main tree of the taiga and the oldest and largest tree in the world | conifers |
trees that keep their leaves all year long | evergreens |
valued food for their woo, grow in the taiga | spruce |
balsam fir pines and figs grows well in where | taiga |
what is the "famous" information about the broadleave tree | they are the most varied trees in the world |
means they loose their leaves in the fall | deciduous |
it other name is canoe birch and is distinguished by its brown to whitish bark which can easy be peeled from the tree in layers | paper birch |
what animal would room throughout the taiga | woodland caribou |
the larges member of the deer family | moose |
millions of _________ ________ animals live on the taiga | fur-bearing animals |
north America's largest rodent | beaver |
what animals have done more than all the animals to shape the landscape of the north a | beavers |
a long,slender animal that is active hungry predator that feeds on various rodents | weasel |
one type of weasel that sheds it winter coat in the summer | ermine |
"skunk bear" has been its name because of its apprehensiveness | wolverine |
has ferry feet that helps it walk in the snow | marten |
one type of weasel that has a luxurious fur coat | mink |
the ermine has a chocolate coat in the summer and a what in the winter | of white |
a large black bird about 26 inches and that resembles the crow | raven |
one of the worlds most intelligent | crow |
a bird that is among the largest and most powerful birds ever | golden eagle |
"king of birds" | bald eagle |
long,runnerless sleds | toboggans |
they had to use what so that their feet would not freeze in the snow | snowshoes |
a mixture of dried meat pounded together with fat and berries | pemmican |
the Indians made what out of skins of moose and caribou | clothing |
soft leather shoes | moccasin |
it seamed like the ______- people may have gotten there name from the seams on there shoes | Ojibwa |
Ojibwa people are sometimes called | chippewa |