Bering has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The ancestors of Native Americans went to the continent from Asia by way of the Bering Strait. | |
| 2. | The Bering Strait separates Asia from North America. | |
| 3. | Eulachon are an anadromous forage fish and are endemic to the northeastern Pacific Ocean; they range from northern California to southwest and south-central Alaska and into the southeastern Bering Sea. | |
| 4. | Fish, shellfish, and other marine species along the Northeast coast and in the eastern Bering Sea have, on average, moved northward and to greater depths toward cooler waters since the early 1980s. | |
| 5. | The first Americans came from Asia probably about 15,000 years ago by walking across the Bering land bridge that back connected what is now the U.S. state of Alaska and Siberia. | |
| 6. | Many species of animals - the woolly mammoth, mastodon, scimitar cat, Arctic camel, brown bear, moose, muskox, and horse — to name a few — moved from one continent to the other across the Bering land bridge. |