Nunavut Quiz Questions
1. Nunavut is the newest territory in what country?
Answer: Canada
Nunavut became a territory in 1999.
2. What does Nunavut mean in the Inuit language?
Answer: our land
Pronounced noon-a-vut
3. How long have the Inuit called this land Nunavut?
Answer: 1000 years
4. Nunavut covers approximately two million square kms. What was the approximate population when it became a separate territory?
Answer: About 30,000 people
5. How do all supplies have to be brought in?
Answer: ships and planes
There are no roads linking Nunavut to southern Canada, and few roads between communities.
6. What two things have made life easier for today’s Inuit hunters?
Answer: gas engines and rifles
7. Why do the Inuit depend on wildlife for food, even though there are modern stores?
Answer: store food is very expensive
Transportation costs make food very, very expensive.
8. Where does the Nunavut Legislature meet?
Answer: Iqaluit
Iqaluit is the capital of Nunavut.
9. What territory or province was divided to make Nunavut?
Answer: The Northwest Territories
10. The two main priorities for the Nunavut government are training and development – true or false?
Answer: True
11. Iqaluit is located on which island?
Answer: Baffin Island
12. Nunavut is rich in which natural resource?
Answer: mineral deposits
Lead, zinc and diamonds are either being mined or in development.
13. In many parts of Nunavut during the winter, the sun shines for only a few hours during the day – true or false?
Answer: True
In the summer, the sun goes down for only a few hours, and doesn’t set in the far North.
14. As in other places, the future of Nunavut depends on its young people. This is especially true in Nunavut, since over 50 percent of its population is ____?
Answer: under age 25
Nunavut is having a population boom.
15. Who are the native people of Nunavut?
Answer: Inuit
The Inuit are highly adaptable and have survived for a thousand years or more in a harsh environment that tolerates no mistakes.