S.S. - Life In Canada's North

Question 1

Name the three territories of Canada which are partly in the Arctic region.

Answer 1

Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon Territory.

Question 2

Which territory is the newest?

Answer 2

Nunavut is the newest territory.

Question 3

What is the capital city of Nunavut?

Answer 3

Iqaluit

Question 4

What is the capital city of the Northwest Territories?

Answer 4

Yellowknife

Question 5

What is the capital city of the Yukon Territory?

Answer 5

Whitehorse

Question 6

What group of First Nations people live in the Arctic regions?

Answer 6

The Inuit live in the Arctic.

Question 7

What is the language of the Inuit people?

Answer 7

Inuktitut

Question 8

What other two languages are spoken in Nunavut today?

Answer 8

English and French

Question 9

In the past, what kinds of jobs did Inuit boys learn to do?

Answer 9

hunting, fishing, making tools, training sled dogs, building the caribou-skin tent or the igloo

Question 10

In the past, what kinds of jobs did Inuit girls learn to do?

Answer 10

cutting up the meat or fish, cooking, scraping the animal skins to make clothing, chewing the animal skins to soften it, caring for the children, keeping the quilliq lit

Question 11

What kinds of materials did the Inuit people have to work with, to make shelters, tools and weapons?

Answer 11

animal skins, animal bones, stone, ivory tusks (from walruses), and other parts of the animals they hunted

They generally did not have much wood to work with, because trees do not grow in the arctic.

Question 12

What kinds of tools did the Inuit people make?

Answer 12

spears and harpoons, sewing needles, the ulu (the curved knife they used for cutting meat and scraping hides), kayaks and umiaks, the qulliq, dogsleds, snow goggles, clothing, parkas, mukluks, etc.

Question 13

What did the Inuit people use to make their clothing from, mostly?

Answer 13

Caribou skins

Question 14

How was a set of clothing worn in the winter, to keep a person warm?

Answer 14

Each person had two sets of clothing. The first set was worn with the fur facing in (towards the person’s body). The second set had the fur facing out, to protect against the wind and cold.

Question 15

What were some different uses for an inuksuk, or groups of inuksuit?

Answer 15

1) They were used as markers to show travelers where to go (navigation).
2) They were used to mark important places or good hunting spots.
3) They were used to help hunters herd caribou in the direction the hunters wanted them to run.
4) They were used as a food cache. Each time you removed some food, you took down a rock from the stack. Once all the rocks were gone, people knew that cache was empty.

Question 16

What animals did the Inuit hunt for food?

Answer 16

caribou, muskox, walrus, seals, fish, ducks or geese, hares, etc.

Question 17

What other sources of food did the Inuit find?

Answer 17

bird eggs, whales, wild berries, fireweed, goldenrod, burdock, bulrushes, dandelions, sea asparagus, pineapple weed, wild mint, etc.

Question 18

How did the Inuit people travel in the past? Over land, or water?

Answer 18

walking, dogsled, kayak, umiak

Question 19

How do people in the Arctic travel now?

Answer 19

walking, dogsled, kayak, motorboats, airplanes, cars, skidoos

Question 20

What does the arctic tundra look like? Think of summer, and then winter.

Answer 20

There are some mountains. It is very rocky, with grasses, moss, flowers and small shrubs. NO TREES GROW THERE.

In the winter it is snow-covered, and the ocean freezes over. It seems very barren and empty.