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Alaska
Important Facts
Rivers and Lakes
Fauna
Landscape
100
Active and Inactive layers.
What are the layers of permafrost?
100
When did Alaska become a State?
What January 3, 1959?
100
Longest river in Alaska at 1,400 miles long?
What is the Yukon?
100
These birds have feathers that grow to their toenails, to help keep them warm?
What is the Ptarmigan?
100
Frozen soil that exists all year long in 80% of Alaska
What is permafrost?
200
Flat, boggy ground?
What is muskeg?
200
Hanging, Valley, and Tidewater.
What are kinds of glaciers?
200
This fish spawn, or lay their eggs, in rivers all over the state.
What are salmon?
200
The Aleut people harvest these animals for their pelts.
What are fur seals?
200
The vast, flat, treeless Arctic region North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
What is tundra?
300
1, 150 mile race
What is the Iditarod?
300
Field of blue with eight golden stars
What is the State flag of Alaska?
300
There are over 3 million of these in Alaska.
What are lakes?
300
They have thick fur or feathers to protect them from the cold.
What are tundra animal?
300
Largest Mountain in North America
What is Denali?
400
Arctic, Pacific, and Bering Sea
What are the bodies of water that surround Alaska?
400
61 degrees north and 150 degrees west
What is the latitude and longitude of JBER?
400
A underwater mountain range that is approximately 1,400 mile long.
What are the Aleutian Islands?
400
King, Coho, Chum, Sockeye, and Pink.
What are the 5 types of Alaskan salmon?
400
Arctic, Continental, Transitional, and Maritime
What are the climate zones?
500
Juneau
What is the state capital of Alaska?
500
The US purchased Alaska from which country?
What is Russia?
500
1,000 square mile lake, the largest in Alaska.
What is Lake Illiamna?
500
Polar bears and walrus make their home here.
What are ice floes?
500
This almost completely surrounds the Pacific ocean and is home to 75% of the worlds active volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?