Cold Environments

What does  the word tundra mean?

• Cold wilderness
• Finnish for treeless land
• flat land
• plantless

Why are the pipelines in Alaska not built in straight lines?

• They follow the border
• To stop it from sinking into the permafrost
• To allow polar bears to migrate
• To stop them from cracking during an earthquake

Why are houses and roads sinking in Alaska?

• too much oil has been extracted
• Global warming is melting the permafrost
• too much gold has been extracted
• they are too heavy for the frozen soil.

What is the Law of the Sea?

• That a countries rules doesn't count at sea.
• A country is in charge of the 200 nautical miles off your coast

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• increase
• decrease

Why do the indigenous people eat whale meat?

• They like the taste
• Whales are easy to catch
• The indigenous people like kayaking
• Fruit and vegetables can't grow so they need to get the minerals and energy from whales

What is Exxon Valdez?

• A place in in Alaska
• An oil platform
• A tanker which crashed causing an oil spill
• A gold mine

What is a multiplier effect?

•  the 'snowballing' of economic activity where jobs are created giving people more money
• the increase in people living in Alaska
• the increase of people leaving Alaska

The Arctic Treaty  says people can

• extract of minerals from the ground

• have mass tourism
• have a small amount of controlled tourism
• test nuclear weapons

fishing quotas are

• the number of fish in the sea
• how much fish you can catch
• the government limits the amount of fish that can be caught.