History 6 Quiz 3: Chapter 2.3-2.4

💫 People of northern Alaska are known as ​ (a)   , an Indian word which once was thought to mean "eaters of raw meat" but now is believed to refer to snowshoes.

💫 People in Greenland and Artic Canada prefer to be called ​ (b)   , a word which means "the people."

• Ojibwas

• Chipewas

• Eskimos
• Inuits

The most common meats used by Eskimos are ______ and ______.

• Cow

• Seal

• Caribou

• Pig

______ was the famous missionary to the Canadian Inuit and their neighbors.

• Sir Wilfred Grenfell

• Christopher Columbus

• Erik the Red

​A ​ (a)   is a long, hooded jacket made of different types of fur.

• parka
• mukluk
• trouser

The ______ was a one-man boat constructed of sealskin stretched over a frame.

• raft
• sailboat

• canoe
• kayak

Match each animal with the correct description.

• Dogs

• Largest members of the deer family

• Beavers

• North America's largest rodents

• Golden Eagles

• Were the only kind of animals that were domesticated by Eskimos

• Moose

• Largest and most powerful birds; "King of the birds"

______ are among the largest and most powerful birds in the world.

• Eagles

• Ravens

• Crows

• Penguins

🔘 The taiga is also called the ​ (a)   forest.

🔘 The main trees of the taiga are ​ (b)   , the oldest and largest trees in the world.

🔘 Trees that keep their leaves all year are ​ (c)   .

🔘 The most numerous and varied trees in the world are ​ (d)   trees.

• boreal
• conifers
• evergreens
• broadleaf

Click the picture to enlarge.

Cape Horn: ​ (a)  

Amazon River: ​ (b)  

Strait of Magellan: ​ (c)  

Andes Mountains: ​ (d)  

Atacama Desert: ​ (e)  

• G
• C
• F
• A
• B
• D
• E

Label the lines of latitude and lines of longitude.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Antarctic Circle

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Equator

Prime Meridan

Artic Circle