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This city constitutes more than 40% of the state's total population; among the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in the state's most populous city, and is also where the starting line to the Iditarod is located.
What is Anchorage? Note: The Iditarod is officially 1,049 miles long extending from Anchorage to Nome. The race starts on the first Saturday in March and takes about 10 days to complete. The winning musher (dog sled racer) takes home a large cash prize; the last musher to finish the race extinguishes (and wins) a red lantern at the finish line.
100
The body of water that separates Russia from Alaska.
What is the Bering Sea/Straight?
100
The year that Alaska became a state.
What is 1959?
100
The Alaskan state land mammal.
What is the Moose?
100
“The further north you get the colder it gets.”
False. The Arctic region is warmed by heat from the ocean radiated through floating ice. Thousands of square miles of Alaska lowland are colder than Point Barrow, which is Alaska’s northernmost point. During the recent "polar vortex" it was colder in many parts of the "lower 48" than in Anchorage.
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Located in the Southern region of the state this city is the capital of Alaska
What is Juneau?
200
The national park that is home to Mt. McKinley
What is Denali National Park?
200
Established in 1926, Alaskan Native seventh-grade student Benny Benson won a statewide contest in which He placed the Big Dipper and the North Star—eight stars of gold—on a blue background.
What is the Alaska State Flag?
200
The Alaskan State Fish.
What is the King Salmon?
200
“Alaska is a land of ice and snow.”
At Fairbanks, some 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it is sometimes 100º in the shade. The average snowfall in Arctic lowlands is less than the average in Virginia. Luxurious vegetation and mildness of climate have caused several regions of Alaska to be facetiously referred to as the “banana belt.”
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the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States, lying less than 120 miles (190 km) south of the Arctic Circle. According to 2012 estimates, the population of the city was 32,070, and the population of the North Star Borough was 100,343. This city is home to the the oldest of Alaska's current colleges.
What is Fairbanks?
300
Alaska is bordered by these two oceans.
What is Arctic Ocean and Pacific Ocean?
300
Represent approximately 16 percent of Alaska's residents, and have the highest percentage of that demographic in the US.
What is Alaskan Native/Native American?
300
The Alaskan State sport that is showcased during the Iditarod.
What is Dog Mushing?
300
“People in Alaska or Alaskan Natives live in ice houses.”
The word iglu means building, and refers in Alaska to a house of earth and wood. Snow houses are occasionally built for emergency use on the trail, but are never used as permanent dwellings.
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It is the 10th northernmost city in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point.
What is Barrow?
400
Tallest mountain in North America at 20,320 feet
What is Mt. McKinley?
400
Signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 18, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history. ANCSA was intended to resolve the long-standing issues surrounding aboriginal land claims in Alaska, as well as to stimulate economic development throughout Alaska
What is Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971?
400
The parts of this animal are used heavily in Alaskan Native rituals, but federal law makes it a crime to possess parts of this animal without permit or are not recognized as a member of specific tribes in the United States.
What is the Bald Eagle?
400
“Alaska’s many glaciers indicate a cold climate.”
Glaciers can form only in relatively warm climates with high mountains and heavy precipitation. Glaciers are found only in Alaska’s warmer areas (southeast, south central, southwest). The largest glacier in Alaska is located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, just 4 hours from Anchorage.
500
Formerly New Archangel under Russian rule, is a unified city-borough located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the largest city-borough in the US, with a land area of 2,870.3 mi and a total area (including water area) of 4,811.4 mi. With a population of 8,881 in 2010, this city is the fourth-largest city by population in Alaska.
What is Sitka?
500
Largest national park in the US is more than 13 million square miles or six times bigger than Yellowstone National Park.
What is Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve?
500
In 1977, after 3 years of construction from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez is final complete, and the first tanker of oil from Valdez is delivered to Puget Sound.
What is Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System?
500
an Arctic baleen whale, a right whale with a large, BOW-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length and also the Alaska State Whale.
What is Bowhead Whale?
500
“There is continuous darkness for three or four months in the Arctic.”
The Arctic is never in total darkness, because of the refraction of light from below the horizon and the bright moonlight on the snow. The number of hours yearly during which print can be read outdoors is as great in the Arctic as in the tropics. In May the sun will rise at 5:20 AM and set at 10:34 PM giving us 17h 13m 53s of daylight.
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