Alaska Geography
This is the tallest mountain in North America, located in Alaska.
What is Denali?
These large mammals migrate thousands of miles across Alaska's tundra.
What are caribou?
The United States purchased Alaska from this country in 1867.
What is Russia?
This colorful natural phenomenon frequently lights up Alaska's winter skies.
What is the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)?
This fish is famous for swimming upstream to spawn in Alaska's rivers.
What is salmon?
Alaska's largest city is located on the Cook Inlet.
What is Anchorage?
The largest species of bear found in Alaska shares its name with a nearby island group.
What is the Kodiak bear?
The purchase of Alaska was nicknamed this because many Americans thought it was a bad deal.
What is Seward's Folly?
This season can bring nearly 24 hours of daylight to parts of Alaska.
What is summer?
The Iditarod is a long-distance race featuring these animals.
What are sled dogs?
This narrow waterway separates Alaska from Russia.
What is the Bering Strait?
This bird, America's national symbol, is commonly seen along Alaska's coasts and rivers.
What is the bald eagle?
This 1896 event brought thousands of prospectors north in search of riches.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush?
Barrow, now called Utqiaġvik, experiences this annual period when the sun never rises.
What is polar night?
This city is Alaska's capital, even though it is not the largest city.
What is Juneau?
This massive national park in Alaska is larger than the state of West Virginia.
What is Wrangell-St. Elias National Park?
These marine mammals use sea ice as a platform for hunting seals.
What are polar bears?
Alaska became the 49th U.S. state in this year.
What is 1959?
Alaska contains more than 100,000 of these frozen rivers of ice.
What are glaciers?
Alaska has more coastline than all the other U.S. states combined.
What is true? (Accept: "What is Alaska having the longest coastline?")
This southeastern Alaska waterway is known as the "Inside Passage."
What is the Alexander Archipelago coastal route?
This enormous whale species, the largest animal on Earth, is occasionally spotted in Alaskan waters.
What is the blue whale?
This Alaska Native group carved large cedar totem poles in Southeast Alaska.
Who are the Tlingit?
This major volcanic mountain erupted dramatically in 1912, helping create the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
What is Novarupta?
This Alaska National Park contains Denali, North America's highest peak.
What is Denali National Park and Preserve? 🏔️