Geography
This is the largest U.S state by area.
What is Alaska?
Alaska's state bird is this grouse-like bird with white winter feathers.
What is the willow ptarmigan?
Alaska became the 49th U.S. state in this year.
what is 1959?
True or False: Alaska has more coastline than all the other U.S. states combined.
What is True?
Alaska Native peoples have lived in Alaska for thousands of years. Name one Alaska Native group.
Acceptable answers include Inuit, Iñupiat, Yup'ik, Athabaskan (Dene), Tlingit, Haida, Aleut (Unangax̂), or Tsimshian.
What is Denali?
This giant mammal is the largest member of the deer family.
What is a moose?
The United States purchased Alaska from this country in 1867.
what is Russia?
Alaska's nickname is "The ________ Frontier."
What is The Last Frontier?
This famous sled dog race is held each year in Alaska.
What is the Iditarod?
This strait separates Alaska from Russia.
What is the Bering Strait?
These large marine mammals migrate to Alaska each summer to feed.
What are whales? (humpback, gray, or bowhead are acceptable)
Thousands of people traveled north during the late 1890s in search of this valuable metal.
What is gold?
During summer, some parts of Alaska receive nearly this many hours of daylight each day.
What is 24 hours?
Traditional Alaska Native kayaks were commonly covered with this type of animal skin.
What is sealskin?
This is the largest national park in the United States, located in Alaska.
What is Wrangell-St. Elias National park and Preserve?
This bear is famous for catching salmon in Alaska's rivers.
What is a brown nose bear/ grizzly bear?
In 1964, Alaska experienced the most powerful ___ ever recorded in North America.
What is an earthquake?
True or False: Alaska has the most active volcanoes of any U.S. state.
What is True?
These carved wooden monuments tell stories and honor families in Southeast Alaska.
What is a totem pole?
This is the longest river in Alaska.
What is the Yukon River?
This fish swims upstream to spawn and is one of Alaska's most important natural resources.
What is salmon?
Before becoming a state, Alaska was a U.S. ________.
What is a territory?
Carvings on cedar made to tell family stories. They are mostly made in Southeast Alaska and they show stylized animals and crests.
What are totem poles?
This holiday, celebrated on March 30, marks the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States
What is Seward's Day?