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Artic |
The farthest north place. Area between the North Pole and the northern timberline of North America, Europe, and Asia |
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Timberline |
Point beyond which trees cannot grow because of extreme cold, type of soil and other factors |
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Aurora borealis |
Northern lights that sometimes light up the night sky |
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Glaciers |
Large masses of ice that flow slowly over land |
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Iceberg |
A piece of glacier that has moved down a mountain or across a polar regions and broken off into the sea |
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Plankton |
Many tiny plants and animals that thrive in the article waters |
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Narwhals |
Small whales whose males have a single spiraled tusk |
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Polar bears |
Some of the world's largest carnivores that live on the ice and hunt the seal |
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Puffins |
Strange looking birds who spend their time swimming and diving for fish in the Artic Ocean's icy water |
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Fur seals |
Seals with coarse, frost proof hair and a thick layer of fat. |
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Blubber |
Thick layer of fat that keeps fur seals warm and keeps water from penetrating to their skin |
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The fur seal is important to the people of the Artic because... |
People depend on it for food, clothing, light and heat |
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Most of the Northern Hemisphere's icebergs come from where... |
Greenland |
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Erick the Red |
Viking from Norway who founded Geeenland's first European settlement |
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Tundra |
Region of treeless Artic plains north of the timberline |
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Frigid Zone |
Coldest regions of the earth |
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Land of Midnight Sun |
Tundra region's nickname because in summer time the sun shines all day and all night |
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Permafrost |
Permanently frozen ground |
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Lichens |
One of the hardiest plants on earth. Two kinds of plants- fungi and algae- growing together. |
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Artic willow |
The world's smallest tree |
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Arctic tern |
A sea bird that migrates farther than any other bird |
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Ptarmigan |
Arctic bird that has on its feet a mat of short feathers that serve as snowshoes to help it travel across the snow |
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Birds of the tundra |
Other birds are: snowy owl, gulls, snow goose, Canada goose |
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Musk oxen |
Large cattlelike mammals that stand about 5ft high |
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Caribou |
North American reindeer |
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Artic wolf |
Big, shaggy, member of the dog family. |
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Artic fox |
Often travels more than a thousand miles in search for food, making it one of the widest ranging land mammals |
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Lemmings |
Little rodents four or five inches long that look like fat round mice |
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Eskimos |
The people of northern Alaska |
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Inuits |
The people of Greenland and Artic Canada |
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Most common meats |
Seal and caribou |
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Mukluks |
Boots from sealskin |
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Parkas |
Long hooded jackets made of different types of fur |
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Igloos |
Temporary shelters Eskimos built when they were traveling |
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Dog sleds |
Good way for inhabitants of the Artic to travel long distances over ice and snow |
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Only kind of animal that was domesticated |
Dog |
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Snowmobiles |
Today Eskimos and Inuits use these rather then dogs to pull their sled. |
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Kayak |
A one man boat constructed of sealskin stretched over the frame |
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Umiak |
Large open boat also made of skins stretched over a frame. |
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Harpoon |
Wooden tool for hunting |
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Modern Eskimos |
Today many have moved into towns and villages because there are not enough animals left on the tundra for them to hunt to support themselves |
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell |
Famous missionary to the Canadian Inuits |
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Taiga |
Vast evergreen forest that stretches for 3,000 miles to cover much of Canada and parts of Alaska |
Also known as boreal forests |
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Conifers |
Cone- bearer, oldest and largest trees in the world |
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Evergreen |
Trees that keep their leaves all year |
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Spruce |
Vary in height and grow abundantly and closely together |
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Broadleaf trees |
The most numerous and varied trees in the world |
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Deciduous |
Trees that lose their leaves in the fall |
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Paper birch |
Indians used it for canoes and baskets and sometimes to substitute paper |
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Beaver |
North American largest rodent |
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Have done more than any other animal to shape the landscape of North America |
Beaver |
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King of the birds |
Golden eagle |
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White headed bird |
The Bald Eager |
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Tribes from the far north |
Creer, Ottawa, Yellowknife, Beaver, And Ojibway |
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Permmican |
Mixture of deies meat pounded together with eggs and chicken |
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