6th Grade NWH Abeka Test 1

Question 1

What is the smallest / coldest ocean?

Accepted Answer

Arctic ocean

Question 2

Who was the famous English missionary that went to the Canadian Inuits?

Accepted Answer

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Question 3

What is the thrird largest continent?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 4

Who are thre most famous Indians of South America?

Accepted Answer

Incas

Question 5

Who was America's greatest story teller?

Accepted Answer

Will Rogers

Question 6

What is the worlds larest island?

Accepted Answer

Greenland

Question 7

What is the worlds largest bay?

Accepted Answer

Hudson bay

Question 8

What is the vast evergreen forest region covering most of Canada and Alaska?

Accepted Answer

Boreal Forest

Question 9

What is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water?

Accepted Answer

Strait

Question 10

What is the treeless Arctic PLAINS north of the timberline?

Accepted Answer

Tundra

Question 11

People in Greanland and Canadian Arctic are called?

Accepted Answer

Inuits

Question 12

What is the name for permanently frozen ground?

Accepted Answer

Permafrost

Question 13

What is a large mount of ice that flows over LAND?

Accepted Answer

Glacier

Question 14

What is the highest peak in NORTH America?

Accepted Answer

Mt. McKinley

Question 15

Who was on of America's greatest athletes?

Accepted Answer

Jim Thorpe

Question 16

What is the name of the area between the North Pole and northern timberline?

Accepted Answer

The Arctic, Ummmm the Arctic

Question 17

What is the point that beyond no trees can grow?

Accepted Answer

Timberline

Questions 17