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1
Alaska accounts for what % of the total US area but is what when compared with other northern regions?
large, small
small, medium
little, big
half, large
2
Name the mountain range that has the highest mountains in Alaska
Brooks Range
Alaska Range
Swiss Alps Range
Rocky Mountain Range
3
What do Russia, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Canada, and Alaska have in common
All share the Bering Sea
Same regional government systems
They all share the Artic Ocean and similar climates
All share the Pacific Ocean and similar climate
4
Referring to an exact location, usually through longitude and latitude
place
region
absolute
relative
5
Alaska area where most of Alaska's population lives
Intermontane Plateaus
Delta region
South central region
Alaska peninsula
6
Lithoshere, atmosphere, hydrophere, and biosphere are four seperate components of the Alaskan environment.
False
True
7
Permafrost is found in nearly 80% of Alaska
True
False
8
In order for a glacier to survive and thrive, it needs to have a sufficient supply of moisture and warm temps.
False
True
9
In Alaska, referring to someplace in relation to others is...
location
region
absolute
relative
10
Two largest icefields in Alaska are the Bering and Malaspina
False
True
11
The location that more than half of Alaska's population is found?
Kenai Peninsula
Fairbanks
Detroit
Anchorage
12
Which of the four components of Alaska's environment deals with landforms?
Atmosphere
biosphere
lithosphere
Hydrospherse
13
What do we call the tools that geographers use such as writings, maps, graphs, and images?
spatial tools
Mechanical tools
Tiaga tools
Temporate tools
14
Somewhere in Alaska that people identify as special or distinctive location
absolute
region
place
relative
15
The geographic center of Alaska is better known as...
Yukon Flats
Minchumina Lake
Fairbanks
Denali
16
Where are glaciers found in Alaska?
Interior of Alaska
There aren't Glaciers in Alaska
South central and South eastern Alaska
Northern town of Alaska
17
What is Beringia?
Bod Bole
Flooded land bridge that prohited people from going from Siberia to Alaska
land expidition by Vitus Bering
Land connection that allowed people to move from one continent to the other
18
The approx. size of Alaska in square miles is
2, 206k miles
1.5 gigawatts
589k miles
491k miles
19
Permafrost is
perenially frozen soil
thick layer of ice in the ground
active substrat of Alaska's geology
naturally occuring pehnomena on the surface of the ground
20
Over the last 200-300 years, temps have gotten colder and air circulation has changed thus altering precipitation.
True
False
21
Two largest mountain ranges in Alaska that dominate the landscape
Wrangell and Kenai
Chagach and ST Alias
Brooks and Alaska
Coastal and Rocky
22
Alaska Range (part of the Rockies) is geologically older than the Pacific Coastal System and taller than Mt. Chamberlain
True
False
23
Differences between physical and human geography
Bob Dole
differ in the way land and people are studied
physical studies natural changes while human studies people and land
Physical includes landforms and climate and human includes buildings
24
The great mountains of Alaska, dominated by Denali, is in the Brooks Range
False
True
25
Why would Gen. Mitchell describe Alaska as the center of the world?
Center of the military presence in the world
From a globe view, it was the center of the major-industrial centers
He threw a dart
He was a flat earther
26
Major factors the shape the climates of Alaska are...
Temperture, latitude, and longitude
Minerals and natural resources
Latitude, bodies of water, and mountains
Precipitation, temperature, and landforms
27
The Nile, Alaska's largest river, begins in Canada, flows through Alaska, into the Bering Sea
True
False
28
Alaska's four physiographic regions are the Interior Plains, Rocky Mountains, Intermontane Basins and Pacific Mountains
False
True
29
Approximately 15% of Alaska is covered by glacier.
False
True
30
How much of Alaska's top soil is underlain by permafrost?
some of it
most of it
only the soils of the northern part
10%
31
The major factors that shape the climates of Alaska are...
Stevens
Hammond
Hickel
McKinley
32
North of 600 means that sun angle (degrees above the horizon) is going to be fairly high
True
False
33
This environment of Alaska is devoid of large vegetation, harsh, and lacks large animals and humans
Tundra
Marine
Tiaga
coastal forest
34
Yukon (largest river system), with the Yukon-Kuskokwim coastal region forms the Delta region of the two rivers
True
False
35
Alaska is (textbook) used as an international lab for the study of...
Volcanoes
Wet lands
Climate Change
Artic mountains
