Characters
Who was Dynamite Dinah?
This is a risk-taker who organizes resources to produce goods and services
What is an entrepreneur?
The first Europeans came to Alaska in search of this valuable resource.
WHat is fur?
These animals were hunted for their oil.
What are whales?
The place where Tlingit Warriors wiped out a Russian settlement.
What is Sitka?
It was the summer home of the Bowhead whale.
What is the Bering Sea?
He died on the way back to the country of his birth and was buried at sea
who is Lord Baranov
What business owners receive after they subtract total costs from total revenues.
What are profits?
Examples of this type of productive resource include ditch diggers, doctors, and school teachers.
What is labor?
These fur-bearers were most highly prized of all by Chinese traders who offered tea and silk in return.
What are sea otters?
The Alaska city where U.S. planes, flown from the lower 48, were painted with soviet insignia and handed over to Russian pilots during WWII
What was Nome?
The city of Dawson is located on this body of water.
What is the Yukon River?
He was a newsboy who carried eggs over the Chilkoot Pass trail
WHo was the one-paper kid?
Two forces that cause prices to rise and fall in a market
What are supply and demand?
It is a mineral resource used by dentists and jewelers first discovered in Alaska in 1893
What is gold?
These animals were lured to air-holes by Eskimos using wooden scrapers so they could be speared.
What are seals?
These towns were founded during the construction of the Alaska Railroad.
What are Anchorage and Nenana?
The Aleutian Islands separate this body of water from the Bering Sea.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This fictional character was called the "greatest Bush Pilot in Alaska" in the 1940s.
Who was Yukio Hamada?
It is what economists call goods that can be used in place of other goods
What are substitutes?
Examples of this type of productive resource include tools, trucks, and factories
Athabaskans herded these animals into corrals made of logs so they could kill them with spears of bows and arrows.
What are caribou?
The Russian colony of Three Saints was located on this island.
What is Kodiak?
Sitka is located on this sound.
What is Sitka Sound?
Who was Captain Uziah?
What is a common property resource?
WHat is whale oil?
William Perry Hauled ice in a ship named after this animal.
What is a sea tortoise?
The Island on which the Aleut was born
What is Atka?
Yin worked in a salmon cannery on this body of water.
What is the Karluk river.