One of two regions in Northern Europe, this group of islands is located west of the North Sea and is separated by the English Channel from the rest of Europe.
What are the British Isles?
100
This country is really a union of four smaller countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
What is the United Kingdom (UK)?
100
Scandinavian warriors that raided the British Isles and Mediterranean.
What are Vikings?
100
The capital of the United Kingdom.
What is London?
100
A narrow inlet of the sea surrounded by high, rocky cliffs.
What is a fjord?
200
These slow-moving sheets of ice are likely responsible for shaping many of the lakes and fjords found throughout Northern Europe.
What are glaciers?
200
This ancient monument was built by settlers in the British Isles some 5,000 years ago.
What is Stonehenge.
200
This country was once ruled by Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. Now as an independent state, it exports a great deal of forest products including paper.
What is Finland?
200
The capital of the Republic of Ireland.
What is Dublin?
200
This word describes 80% of Greenland which cannot support human settlement due to ice sheets.
What is uninhabitable?
300
This region of Northern Europe includes the peninsulas of Northern Europe and the island of Iceland to the west.
What is Scandinavia?
300
This empire is often considered the first global empire, claiming lands on every continent by the end of the 19th century.
What is the British Empire (Great Britain)?
300
This country is the smallest in Scandinavia, but considered the most powerful, once ruling a union of all Scandinavian countries.
What is Denmark?
300
This capital of Iceland has many homes that are heated via geothermal energy.
*"Hardest to spell...funnest to say"
What is Reykjavik?
300
Springs that shoot hot water and steam into the air.
What are geysers?
400
This ocean current brings warm, moist air from the Atlantic Ocean resulting in relatively warm temperatures and climates for such high latitudes.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
400
This form of government consists of a king or queen as the head of state and democratically elected officials that act as legislators.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
400
This country is energy rich due to large oil reserves in the North Sea and boasts the largest GDP per capita in Scandinavia.
What is Norway?
400
This capital of Sweden is sometimes called a "floating city" because it resides on 14 islands.
What is Stockholm?
400
This word describes Sweden's choice to avoid taking sides in any conflict for the last two centuries.
What is neutral?
500
These jagged and rocky mountains form a natural border between Norway and Sweden.
What are the Kjolen Mountains?
500
This period marked a significant boost to the economy of the United Kingdom in the 1700s and 1800s due to increased production of iron, steel, textiles, etc.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
This country declared its independence from Denmark in 1944.
What is Iceland
500
Despite being a territory of Denmark, Greenland has its own independent government seated in this capital.
What is Nuuk?
500
Failure to reach an agreement between Irish Catholics and Protestants resulted in this, failure to give up all weapons.