| elk |
a large deer found in northern Europe and Asia. It has large antlers shaped like a palm with spread fingers. In North America the same kind of animal is called a moose. [1/2 definitions] |
| Eskimo |
an old-fashioned word used for a member of any of the native peoples of northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and northeastern Russia. Most of the people of these northern regions are Inuits. |
| Finland |
a country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in northern Europe. Helsinki is the capital of Finland. |
| French Guiana |
a territory of France in northern South America, on the Atlantic coast. Cayenne is the capital city of French Guiana. |
| Ganges |
a river that flows through northern India and central Bangladesh into the Indian Ocean. |
| Ganges River |
a river that flows through northern India and central Bangladesh into the Indian Ocean. The Ganges River is especially important to the people of India and plays an important role in the religion of Hinduism. |
| Germany |
a country in central, northern Europe. Germany was divided into East and West Germany from 1949 to 1990. Berlin is the capital of Germany. |
| Gobi Desert |
a large, very dry region in northern China and southwestern Mongolia. |
| Guyana |
a country in northern South America on the Atlantic coast. Guyana was known as British Guiana until its independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. Georgetown is the capital of Guyana. |
| halibut |
a flatfish that lives in the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Halibut are used for food. |
| hemisphere |
either of two halves of the earth. A hemisphere is formed by dividing the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres at the equator, or into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres at a meridian. [1/2 definitions] |
| herring |
a small fish that lives in northern waters. Herring are used for food. |
| Iceland |
an island country in northern Europe. Iceland is in the North Atlantic. Reykjavik is the capital of Iceland. |
| Indus River |
a major river of southern Asia that begins in Tibet, then flows through a part of northern India and through all of Pakistan before entering the Arabian Sea. |
| Ireland |
an island in western Europe. Ireland is in the northern Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain. [2 definitions] |
| Kuwait |
a country in southwestern Asia at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Kuwait City is the capital of Kuwait. The capital is also called Al Kuwait. |
| lemming |
a very small mammal that looks like a mouse with a short tail. Lemmings are rodents that live in the far northern parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. Some kinds of lemmings migrate in groups if their population gets very large. Migrating lemmings may drown in bodies of water. |
| Libya |
a country in northern Africa. Tripoli is the capital of Libya. |
| mammoth |
a very large extinct mammal closely related to elephants. Mammoths were much bigger than elephants, and had shaggy black fur and long tusks that curved upward. Several kinds of mammoths lived in the Northern Hemisphere until the end of the last Ice Age. [1/2 definitions] |
| Mohawk |
a member of a Native American people who once lived along this river, and now lives in northern New York and Canada. The Mohawk belong to the Iroquois confederation of Six Nations. [1/2 definitions] |
| moose |
the largest kind of deer. Male moose have very large antlers that are shaped like a hand with spread fingers. Moose are mammals with hooves. They live in the northern United States and in Canada. Moose also live in northern Europe and Asia, where they are called elk. |