Geography
The largest island in the world.
What is Greenland?
The country that Greenland is an autonomous territory of.
What is Denmark?
The Indigenous people of Greenland.
Who are the Inuit?
Large marine mammals commonly seen off Greenland’s coast.
What are whales?
The Viking explorer who founded the first Norse settlements in Greenland around 985 AD.
Who is Erik the Red?
This ocean borders Greenland to the west.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
In 1979 Greenland gained this form of government.
What is home rule?
The official language of Greenland.
What is the Greenlandic language?
A large Arctic predator that lives in Greenland.
What is the Polar Bear?
The famous explorer who crossed Greenland’s ice sheet in 1888
Who is Fridtjof Nansen?
The capital city of Greenland.
What is Nuuk?
This European organization Greenland left in 1985 after a referendum.
What is the European Economic Community?
A traditional mode of winter transportation using dogs.
What is a dog sled?
Large floating chunks of ice that break off glaciers.
What are icebergs?
This famous Arctic explorer was born in Greenland and later reached the North Pole.
Who is Knud Rasmussen?
This massive sheet of ice covers about 80% of Greenland.
What is the Greenland ice sheet?
This country has proposed buying Greenland multiple times.
What is the United States?
A major industry in Greenland related to the ocean.
What is fishing?
The largest national park in the world is located in Greenland.
What is Northeast Greenland National Park?
The Norse colonies in Greenland disappeared around the 15th century during this colder climatic period.
What is the Little Ice Age?
his strait separates Greenland from Canada
What is the Davis Strait?
This U.S. president discussed purchasing Greenland in 2019.
Who is Donald Trump?
This colorful natural phenomenon is often visible in Greenland’s night sky.
What is the Aurora Borealis?
One of the fastest-moving glaciers in the world located in Greenland.
What is the Jakobshavn Glacier?
The Norse settlers in Greenland originally came from this country.
What is Norway?