Glaciers/Icebergs
The phenomenon when a chunk of glacial ice falls off into a body of water
What is calving
What is Sitka Black Tailed Deer
The location where humpback whales breed
What is Hawaii and Cabo
The name of the "land-bridge" that once allowed migration into the Americas from Russia
What is the Bering Land Bridge
Alaska's capital (the only capital not accessible by road)
What is Juneau
The name of the glacier, now split in two, at the end of Tracy Arm (closest glacier by boat from Pybus Point Lodge)
What is Sawyer Glacier
The distinction between Brown and Grizzly bears
What is coastal vs inland
This intelligent animal is nicknamed “Old Man of the Sea” and has the densest fur in the animal kingdom
What is a Sea Otter
The nickname coined to the purchase of Alaska in 1867 by President Andrew Johnson
What is “Seward's Folly” or “Andrew Johnson’s Polar Bear Garden”
The name of the carved wood poles illustrating important family and cultural traditions
What is a Totem Pole
The name of the last ice age, first in which homosapiens evolved, began about 2.6 million years ago and covered huge parts of the planet
What is the Pleistocene Epoch?
The nickname for hunters during the winter in Alaska when pelts of furbearer animals are at their prime
What is "trappers time"
The phenomenon that toothed whales use for hunting and navigation (like the killer whale and dolphins)
What is echolocation
The name of the company that spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil along 1500 miles of coastline, into Blight Reed in Prince William Sound in 1989
What is Exxon Valdez
The name of the war in southeast Alaska, between the Tlingit people and the US Navy (USS Saginaw)
What is The Kake War
The percent of land surface covered by glaciers
What is 10%
The weight of a Bald Eagles nest (2nd largest raptor in the world, highest density in Alaska)
What is 1 ton (2,000 lbs)
The phenomenon nicknamed “Northern Lights of the Sea”
What is Bioluminescence
The name of the goldrush that brought 100,000 prospects to the area, establishing communities and an economy?
What is the Klondike Gold Rush
The number of years Pybus Point Lodge has been running
What is 32 years (1989)
The name of the largest piedmont glacier in the world located in Southeast, Alaska
What is Malaspina Glacier (as big as Rhode Island)
This bird has the longest migratory route, traveling 44,100 miles from circumpolar Arctic where it breeds, then winters in Antartica
What is the Arctic Tern
The name of salmon's genus, meaning "hook nose"
What is oncorhynchus
The name of the cove located on the southernmost part of Admiralty Island, named after two gold prospectors who were murdered in 1869 as revenge for the killing of two Tlingit tribesmen
What is Murder Cove
The meaning of the Aleut word Aleyska where Alaska got its name from
What is "The Great Land or Mainland"