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1. The image that springs to mind when one thinks of Greenland is far from green. The visual image is mile after mile of white; a culmination of snow and ice.
True or False: Over half of Greenland is covered by an ice sheet.
2. What is the name given to the narrow inlets caused by glacial erosion that are found along the coast of Greenland?
3. Ice is a dominant factor in Greenlandic geography and glaciers are very common. Interrupting these glaciers, however, are fantastic ridges and peaks of mountains that haven't been covered with the ice that can be seen all around them. What are these peaks and ridges called?
4. The greatest example of a peak appearing to force its way through the glacial ice of Greenland is the nation's highest mountain. What is its name?
5. Greenland may not share a border with any other landmass but it certainly makes up for that with a massive coastline. At the southernmost tip of the Arctic nation there is a cape that meets the Atlantic Ocean. What is the name of this cape?
6. The capital city of Greenland is Nuuk, a capital that has one of the smallest populations in the world. Like many world cities, Nuuk is found on the coast but which part of the Greenlandic coastline can the capital be found?
7. What type of establishment that was founded in 1987 is known locally in Nuuk as Ilisimatusarfik? You could learn more about Greenland here!
8. Thule in the north of Greenland (nearly 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle) was a base for which of the USA's armed forces?
9. The proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all of today's Inuits extending from Greenland in the east to Alaska in the west. Which of the following did the proto-Inuit of northeast Greenland meet in about AD 1000?
10. It is clear that Greenland is a very large land mass of mostly uninhabitable environments. However, is Greenland a continent?
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