Exploring the Arctic: A Quiz on the Polar Region Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship.

the Jensen Arctic Museum in Monmouth, Oregon, is the only museum on the West Coast other than in Alaska that focuses solely on Arctic culture.

the Ziegler Polar Expedition was stranded in the arctic for two years until it was rescued in 1905.

while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear.

Capt. Robert Bartlett skippered the schooner Effie M. Morrissey to the Arctic 20 times in the name of science and research.

Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago, features no roads between settlements.

Indre Wijdefjorden National Park contains the only High Arctic steppe vegetation in Europe.

Jan Nagórski, Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic, was presumed dead for 38 years.

John Wilson Danenhower, survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command.

Tookoolito (pictured) and her companion were advertised as "Esquimaux Indians... from the arctic regions" and exhibited at Barnum's American Museum in 1862.

Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there.

Exploring the Arctic: A Quiz on the Polar Region

1 An example of this is the phenomenon of ________, which is commonly blamed on long-range pollutants.

2 The Arctic region can be defined as the area north of the ________ (66° 33’N), which is the approximate limit of the midnight sun and the polar night.

3 The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean (which is sometimes considered to be a northern arm of the ________) surrounded by treeless permafrost.

4 Other Circumpolar North indigenous peoples include the Chukchi, ________, Inupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sami, Yukaghir, and Yupik.

5 Other land animals include wolverines, ________, and arctic ground squirrels.

6 During the ________, the Arctic still had seasonal snows, though only a light dusting and not enough to permanently hinder plant growth.

7 Since 1937, the whole Arctic region has been extensively explored by ________.

8 Upon ratification of the ________, a country has ten years to make claims to extend its 200 mile zone.

9 Marine mammals include seals, walrus, and several species of ________—baleen whales and also narwhals, killer whales and belugas.

10 By 1300, the ________, present-day Arctic inhabitants and descendants of Thule culture, had settled west Greenland, and moved into east Greenland over the following century.

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