Northern Europe Vocabulary Test

parallel, or line of latitude around the Earth

• Aland Islands

• Nordic Europe

• Hemisphere

• Arctic Circle

a group of Finnish (Finland) islands in the Baltic Sea

• Nordic Cross

• Prime Meridian

• Aland Islands

• Iceland

the northern island nations of Europe.

• Nordic Europe

• Denmark

• Greenland

• Faroe Islands

a flag representing all of the Nordic Nations; has ties to Christianity.

• England

• Aland Islands

• Latitude

• Nordic Cross

an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles

• Longitude

• Equator

• Latitude

• Arctic Circle

the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around the Earth

• Denmark

• Nordic Europe

• Prime Meridian

• Arctic Circle

half of the earth split by the equator.

• Hemisphere

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Nordic Cross

the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator.

• Equator

• Hemisphere

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

the measurement of distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.

• Nordic Europe

• Hemisphere

• Equator

• Longitude

a constitutional monarchy that is made up of mainland and islands between the North and Baltic Seas.

• Denmark

• Iceland

• Greenland

• Norway