The Land of Snow: Greenland- 2 - Free MCQ Practice Test with solutions,

• The Labrador Sea is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland.
• The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast.

Greenland is officially the world's largest island that is not a continent. Home to 56,000 people, Greenland has its own extensive local government, but it is also part of the Realm of Denmark.

• Nuuk is the capital of Greenland.
• Nuuk is the largest city in the entire country, and it is also the economic and cultural center of Greenland.
• There are about 17,000 people living in Nuuk, and they enjoy a geographic region that contains mountains and easy access to water.

Greenland Ice Sheet, also called Inland Ice, Danish Indlandsis, single ice cap or glacier covering about 80 percent of the island of Greenland and the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, second only in size to the Antarctic ice mass.

• At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada.
• The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.

Greenland experiences a very long winter season that typically lasts for about 9 to 10 months each year. According to the NCERT Class 5 Social Studies textbook, winter covers almost three-fourths of the year in Greenland, leaving only a short summer. Therefore, the correct answer is 9-10 months.

Potatoes are the only plant as being grown in Greenland. Hence, the correct answer is "Potatoes."

Although wolf-like in appearance, huskies are no more closely related to wolves than poodles and bulldogs are. While they're all dogs, some huskies may be crossed with wolves, producing a wolf hybrid.

Animals of the polar region have a thick layer of fat under their skin known as Blubber. This protects them from the cold temperature.

• Native people of Greenland called Eskimos.
• Eskimo is a term used to mean people of North America or Greenland, as distinguished from Eskimo people from Asia or the Aleutian Islands.