Fortress of Alaska
It was a big airfield, built in Anchorage just before Japan attacked Alaska.
What is Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Who was Dynamite Dinah?
This type of person 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 are furs?
These animals were hunted for their oil.
What are whales?
It is the tunnel that allowed goods to be shipped to Anchorage and Fairbanks from an ice-free port other than Seward,
What is Whittier Tunnel?
Who was Alexander Baranov?
It is 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-bearing animals were the most highly prized of all by Chinese traders who offered tea and silk in return.
What were sea otters?
He was the Alaska defense commander who tried to prepare Alaska for the war.
Who was General Simon Buckner Jr.?
He was a newsboy who carried eggs over the Chilkoot Pass.
Who was the One-Paper Kid?
These are the two forces that cause prices to rise and fall in a market.
What are supply and demand?
What is gold?
These animals were lured to air holes by Eskimos using wooden scrapers so they could be speared.
What were seals?
A bombing attack on this U.S. navel base led to the United States declaration of war against Japan.
This Fictional Character was called the "Greatest Bush Pilot in Alaska" in the 1940's.
Who was Yukio Hamada?
What are substitutes?
Example of this type of productive resource include tools, trucks, and factories.
What is capital?
Athabaskans herded these animals into corrals made of logs so they could kill them with spears or bows and arrows.
What were caribou?
It was the part of Alaska that was called "A spear pointed straight at the heart of Japan"
What were the Aleutian Islands?
He was captain of the whaling ship "Jezebel"
Who was Captain Uziah?
It is what economists call a resource that is owned by no one in particular.
What is a common property resource?
It was the resource that provided light and lubricants for the world during the 1800's
What is whale oil?
William Perry hauled ice in a ship named after this animal.
What is a sea tortoise?