Exam 18: The Far North

During the 19ᵗʰ Century,most of the Far North was controlled by the ________.

During the Cold War,the threat from the Soviet Union encouraged Americans and Canadians to establish military bases throughout Canada,Alaska and Greenland.This was called ________.

In the mid 20th century,the ________ was Canada's largest secondary sector industry.

In 1999 Canada divided ________ in two forming Nunavut.

The DEW line was a project that established ________.

Most scholars agree that the ancestors of todays Native Americans in Alaska,and the First Nations,aboriginals,and Inuit peoples in Canada likely ________.

Two of the world's largest ________ deposits were found near Nain,Labrador;and near Sudbury,Ontario.

The first group to move into the Far North were the ancestors of the ________.

________ is officially the world's largest island.

It is more expensive to produce petroleum in the Far North because of ________ and ________.

Settlement in the Far North is ________.

European explorers hoped to find the Northwest Passage because ________.

What is permafrost and how does it impact human settlement in the Far North? What impact climate change had on this relationship?

The last remaining continental glaciers are located in ________ and Antarctica.

The Canadian Shield is one of the most ________-rich areas on the Earth's surface.

The Far North is that area where the growing season is too short for successful commercial agricultural on a regular basis,the land base is too poor,and ________.

Guns,knives,metal tools,and other Western technologies and commercial products,were introduced to the Far North for the first time by

The name Greenland was adopted because ________.

In comparison to other parts of North America,scientists believe that the Far North will face ________ impacts from global climate change.

The sea route that was thought to have linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Arctic Ocean is called the ________.