Igloos had no fires because there was not much firewood in the arctic. Some driftwood might have washed up on the shores, but if the Inuit did not live close to the sea, they would not have found it.

The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo? It would be pretty cold compared to the houses we live in now ... the Haida, and the Inuit. You can compare them to see how different ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on ... a layer of snow formed in a single drift Almost any snow will work for an experienced igloo builder in a pinch, but the best kind is a deep layer ...

Any grade school kid can tell you that an igloo is a scoop-shaped home made of compacted snow and ice by Inuit tribes. What they might be less capable of describing is why igloos work so well as ...