Final Exam

I know there may gave been some confusion and misleading statements made at the beginning of this course, but the reality is, that your entire grade is based upon your performance on the final examination. Please do your own work. There is a three hour time limit.

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Final Examination

Headed North 101

Spring, Summer 2013

1. What is the easiest way to find a brown bear?

a. Go to a meadow in Southern England, spread honey on a piece of bread and wait

b. Go to a stream full of salmon in Alaska, and creep silently through the bushes

c. Go to a calving glacier and carefully examine the icebergs

d. Find a flock of surf scoters, and look carefully with your binoculars

2. Where do mother sea otters and their children like to hang out?

a. Ice floes

b. Sandy beaches

c. Kelp beds

d. Mud flats

3. What is the term used to describe reducing the area of a sail?

a. Furling

b. Kedging

c. Reefing

d. Bending

4. What type of rock constitutes the majority of the mainland coast ranges of British Columbia and Alaska?

a. sandstone

b. slate

c. peridotite

d. granite

5. What does glacial flour eventually become?

a. granite

b. scones

c. horrible sticky mud

d. kelp

6. Why is anchoring in Alaska so challenging?

a. The water is very deep.

b. It is always very windy.

c. The anchorages are so crowded.

d. The water is so cold.

7. Which combination produces the worst seas?

a. wind blowing against the current

b. wind blowing with the current

c. wind blowing perpendicular to the current

d. wind blowing orthogonal to the current

8. Why did natives abandon their traditional villages?

a. Populations were decimated by measles and smallpox.

b. To get closer to European trading posts and trade routes

c. To get jobs in places like canneries

d. All of the above

9. Who is the most likely owner of an Alaskan clearcut?

a. US Forest Service

b. A Native-American corporation

c. US Bureau of Land Management

d. Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

10. What is the easiest place to buy jewelry?

a. Juneau

b. Kake

c. Prince Rupert

d. Wrangell

11. What is the ethnic heritage of most residents of Petersburg?

a. Tlingit

b. Norwegian

c. Kenyan

d. North Dakotan

12. What are the two most common trees found in Southeast Alaska?

a. Engelmann Spruce and Grand Fir

b. Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir

c. Sugar Maple and White Oak

d. Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock

13. Where is the highest concentration of navigation aids in the United States?

a. Wrangell Narrows

b. Tongass Narrows

c. Venn Passage

d. Dixon Entrance

14. Why do humpback whales stand on their heads and smack the water with their tails?

a. It is easier to see their prey looking straight down

b. The noise attracts curious small fish

c. They are paid to do this by cruise lines

d. Nobody really knows

15. How does one dispose of a cantaloupe rind while sailing in Alaska?

a. Chop it into small pieces and feed it to the dog.

b. Bury it in the horrible glacial mud.

c. Chop it into small pieces and toss it overboard once you leave the anchorage.

d. Chop it into small pieces and flush it down the head.

16. A 33-foot sailboat with a 5-foot draft is sailing a course of 315 degrees true at 4.0 knots. There is a tidal current of 2.0 knots flowing 135 degrees true. After 2.5 hours, how many statute miles will the boat travel over the ground? Please show all of your work.

17. How far will the sailboat in the problem above travel if the current is instead flowing 2.0 knots at 180 degrees true? Hint: use your high school trigonometry.

18. How far will the sailboat in problem 16 travel if the current increases from 0.5 to 2.0 knots over the course of the 2.5 hrs? You may assume that the current change is a sinusoidal function over a 12 hour period. Hint: Use your college calculus.

19. How would the lives and perspectives of Elizabeth and Jane Bennett have been altered if, prior to their marriages, they had made a trip to Alaska in a 33-foot sailboat? Be sure to use specific references to the novel in your answer.