Habits & Habitats
A group of reindeer which travels together.
What is a herd?
This purpose for reindeer is one shared by the Lapps and Santa.
What is transportation of people and/or things?
Number of fictional reindeer belonging to Santa.
What is nine?
The average life span of a reindeer.
What is between 12 and 15 years?
This came first for the song Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
What were the lyrics?
Cold, far north region of the globe which is home to reindeer.
What is the Arctic?
This part of the reindeer is used to make tents, bedding, boots and clothing.
What is the hide?
The largest known herd of reindeer has this many animals.
What is more than one million?
One centimeter per day.
What is the rate a male's antlers grow?
The relationship between Robert L May and Johnny Marks, who wrote the lyrics and music to Rudolf.
What is brothers-in-law?
Animals, like reindeer, who eat a plant-based diet.
What are herbivores?
Reindeer contribute to the food supply of the Lapps by providing meat, milk and two other dairy-like products.
What are cheese and butter?
The number of years that the Lapps have been herding reindeer.
What is 3,000?
Characteristic of reindeer hair that increases ability to keep warm.
What is hollow hairs?
Plantlike organism found under the snow and eaten by reindeer.
What is lichen?
This part of the reindeer is often used for making tools, dolls and cooking utensils.
What are the antlers?
The recorded running speed of reindeer in miles per hour.
What is 36 to 48 mph
What is traction in the snow?
Group of Americans that the Lapps taught to herd reindeer.
Who are native Alaskans?
The four countries in which Lapland lies.
What are Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia?
The parts of the reindeer used to hold food.
What are the stomach and the intestines?
The number of countries comprising Lapland in the Arctic.
What is four?
Reindeer are the only deer with this distinction.
What are antlered females?
Rangifer tarandus, shared by both reindeer and caribou.
What is species?