The Territory of Nunavut

1. Slow growing plants that are a combination of algae and fungus.
3. Military base on Ellesmere Island.
5. Everyday spoken language of Nunavut.
6. Marker made of pile of stones.
9. Gems mined in Jericho.
10. Winter home made of snow.
12. Geographic centre of Canada.
13. Art using whalebone, antlers, ivory and soap stone.
15. Was part of this land owned by the Hudson's Bay Company since 1670.
16. Ice in valley from the last ice age.
17. What Nunavut means.
18. The leader of the mission to find the North West Passage that were stranded and died.

2. The Inuit hunted these animals by directing them to walk through water to slow them down.
4. First peoples of Nunavut.
7. Inuit wait by air holes to hunt these animals when they come out of the ice for air.
8. Land that is barren and frozen.
10. Capital of Nunavut.
11. Ground that never thaws.
12. Canada's largest island.
14. Official bird of the territory.