Exam 18: The Far North

As part of an effort for promoting the settlement of the Far North,during the Great Depression of the 1930s,the U.S.government paid ________.

The European influence in the Far North ended for several centuries when ________.

Global climate change in the Far North is most acute in the ________.

Three impacts of rise in average temperatures in Alaska are ________,________,and ________.

Among the primary sector activities in the Far North for Euro-Americans,which were the most important?

Physical and cultural geographers see Iceland and Greenland as ________.

Prior to European settlement the Inuit and Aleut made their living through ________.

The Northwest physiographic subregion can be described as ________.It is an extension of the ________.

In 1814,Greenland formally became a territory of ________,though it regained partial independence in 2009.

Most of the long-distance travel in the Far North is by ________.

The largest landform region in Canada is ________.

This act created Canada's newest Territory of Nunavut in 1999.

Greenland has become more accessible to tourists over the past few decades due to events associated with ________.

Human utilization of coastal resources has been ________ in recent years

Permafrost is ________.

The lifestyles of the major native groups were as follows:

The largest physiographic subregion in the Far North,covering most of Canada is ________.

One characteristic of the tundra biome is ________.

Both petroleum production and fishing are economically significant industries in Alaska.Compare and contrast the environmental impacts of these two industries.

How has global climate change impacted the Far North?