GCU 322 Reading Quiz 18 - Questions and Answers

GCU 322 Reading Quiz 18 - Questions and Answers Along the east coast of three islands (_____) and Labrador are innumerable fjords, some of which penetrate inland for more than 50 miles. Ellesmere, Devon, Baffin Precipitation is light and varies over much of the region from _____ inches annually. 5-15 For the Inuit people, dependence on _____ foods has dramatically increased the use of tooth decay and malnutrition; obesity has made its first appearance. Packaged Trapping in the Arctic Region had been on a general decline for several decades in the twentieth century, but in the _____, it decreased dramatically. Humane, animal-rights, and antitrapping advocates mounted an international campaign that practically destroyed the entire seal-fur market and had a lesser, but notable, effect on trapping of other furbearers. 1980s Almost half of Alaska's _____ small native villages exercise some sort of community control of alcohol sales and usage. 250 In some areas, snow machines are being replaced by _____, which provide the flexibility of year-round transport, and in a few localities, dog sleds are making a comeback. all-terrain vehicles At Baker Lake in Nunavut, there is an average of nearly _____ days a year in which the persistence of blowing snow effectively confines people indoors. Ninety All of the mining companies have been sensitive about providing jobs to native northerners, but Inuit workers make up less than _____ percent of the current mining workforce of the region. 20 Several varieties of _____ range throughout the region and they are the most common quarry of Inuit hunters. Seals The Atlantic walrus inhabits most of the eastern Arctic Ocean, with particular concentration around the Melville Peninsula and Southampton Island. The Pacific walrus inhabits the Bering Sea; there is a _____-mile gap between the ranges of the two. 1,000 _____ has become an attraction to fly-in tourists who want to see a "real" Inuit village. Kotzebue In many areas, more than half the family income goes for: electricity and fuel costs _____ is by the largest enterprise in today's Arctic. Government In Greenland, the native population (formerly referred to, but incorrectly so, as "Eskimo") refers to themselves as _____ (note: this is NOT the commonly-agreed upon term for the Arctic natives). Kalaallit Churchill, Manitoba (MB) is a grain-shipping port during its three-month navigation season, for its ocean route for transporting prairie wheat to Europe is _____ miles shorter than the route via eastern Canada. 1,000 In terms of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the debate between "development" versus "preservation," the "development" side won out in _____ when the US Congress passed (and the president signed) the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that year, which included legalization of drilling in a large section of the refuge on the coastal plain. 2017 Alaska's Red Dog mine in the DeLong Mountains is the world's largest _____ mine and one of its largest sources of lead ore as well. Zinc There are nearly 200 settlements in the region, and no settlement has a population greater than 8,000, and only about _____ exceed 2,500. half a dozen In terms of Inuit cultural history, _____ Culture had two principal attributes lacking in an earlier era: domesticated dogs to aid in hunting and in pulling sleds, and a full range of gear for hunting the great baleen whales, a major food source not available to the earlier people. Thule