Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Outreach/Flags - Advanced/4/en

3. Know and identify the following basic types of flags and list one flag for each type

a. Badge

a design element used to make a flag distinct when the basic design of the flag is used by other dominions, colonies, or territories within an empire. The Bermuda flag crest is a good example because the basic flag design is shared by other UK territories.

b. Bicolor

two base colors, either side by side or one above the other. The Vatican flag uses yellow and white side by side. as is the flag of Singapore with a red top and white bottom.

c. Burgee

A burgee is a distinguishing flag, regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization. Yacht club members fly them and exchange them on the first visit by a member of one club to another club.

d. Canton

where it exists, the upper inside section. The stars and blue field(officially the Union) in the American flag form the canton, as does the Union Jack in the Bermuda flag above.

e. Couped Cross

a cross that does not extend to the edge of the flag. The Swiss national flag has a white couped cross on a red field, and the International Red Cross flag is the reverse of the Swiss Flag.

f. Cross

two intersecting lines. The UK flag consists of three different crosses on top of each other., Norway, Sweden, and Iceland all have crosses on their flags.

g. Pennant

flags (often nautical) tapering to a point or swallowtail and used for identification or signaling. Pennants tend to last longer in strong wind conditions. The flag of Nepal is the only non- four sided national flag in the world and is based on two attached pennants of differing sizes.

h. Quartered

the flag is divided into 4 sections or quarters of either solid colors or solid colors with designs. Panama and the Dominican Republic are the only two current national quartered flags. However, quartered flags are common in history and for sub-national entities like the US State of Maryland . The Pathfinder and Master Guide flags shown on the honor patch are also quartered.

i. Serration

two colors meeting at a sarrated line. Bahrain and Qatar are two national flags with this feature. (White on the left)

j. Triangle

three sided flag feature. Many countries include a triangle on their flag incuding South Africa , Bahamas , Cuba , East Timor , Sudan and more.

k. Triband

about 30% of the worlds national flags are considered tribands. Sometimes the bands are three different colors (tricolor), but some have just two colors with one of the colors between bands of another color. Often additional symbols are imposed on top of one or more of the bands. The Canadian flag is a triband, with the maple leaf over the center white band . France has a three color triband without any extra decoration called the Tricolour . A triband that has a thin bands of another color between the major bands is called a fimbriated tricolor or triband and in a few cases the bands are not horizontal or vertical but rather on the diagonal. Both these variations are seen on the flags of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania .

l. Guidon

a flag that represents a specific unit or branch in the military. USA Medical Corp Guidon , and USA Psychological Operations Corps Guidon (note the chess piece) Pathfinder units also use Guidons for individual units.