Iditarod Trail
This "Last Great Race" is a famous sled dog race held in this U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
The study of family history and tracing your ancestors.
What is genealogy
This is the natural environment where an animal lives, like a forest or ocean.
What is a habitat?
This is the name for the person who drives the dog sled.
Who is a musher?
Gregor Mendel is known as the "Father of" this scientific field, the study of how traits are passed down.
What is genetics?
Every year, these large birds fly in a V-shape to migrate south for the winter.
What are geese?
The Iditarod trail runs from Anchorage to this city on the western coast.
What is Nome?
Mendel did his experiments on these small, green plants.
What are pea plants?
This is the process of breaking down food in your stomach so your body can use it for energy.
What is digest?
This is the main type of animal that pulls the sleds in the Iditarod.
What are sled dogs (Alaskan huskies)
Mendel studied how traits like seed shape and flower color were passed from parent plants to these.
What are offspring (or child plants)?
This tiny bird, with a ruby-colored throat, migrates all the way from North America to Central America, even flying 500 miles non-stop over the Gulf of Mexico.
What is a Ruby-throated Hummingbird?
This famous sled dog delivered medicine to save children in Nome, inspiring the race.
Who is Balto?
A characteristic, like eye color or height, that is passed from parents to children.
What is a trait?
Before migrating, birds enter a state called "hyperphagia," where they do this to stored fat for energy, which their bodies will later _______________ during the long flight.
What is digest?