Dutch landscapes test

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

High Netherlands

Low Netherlands

To check your knowledge

- You may use your notebook.

- Read the question thoroughly.

- Check your own answers. Count how many correct answers you have

Good luck!

Which soil type is least fertile?

1. Sand
2. Clay
3. Peat

What did the first inhabitants of the low Netherlands build to protect themselves against flooding?

To create the sea clay landscape the line of dunes at the coast had to be completely closed.

1. True
2. False

What did first farmers in the sand landscape used to make their fields fertile?

Which answer fits Low Netherlands best?

1. Lots of forest
2. Landuse depends on altitude
3. Blockshaped parcelation
4. Glacial erratics

What are the places called where there is a passage through the push moraines?

Many lakes in the west of the Netherlands are created by digging for sea clay.

1. True
2. False

In which province do you find large amounts of peatland?

1. Groningen
2. Zuid-Limburg
3. Zuid-Holland
4. Gelderland

How did people pump the water out of the polders in the old days?

The last 200.000 years can be characterized by a variety of warmer periods and ice ages.

1. True
2. False

The sand and loss landscape originated in a time of

1. low temperatures with a polar desert.
2. high temperatures and desert circumstances.
3. a tropical climate and lots of rivers.
4. hard winds blowing over the tropical sea.

The sandy heights used to be very dynamic. That stopped when ...

1. It started raining a lot more.
2. Sheep came to cover the hills.
3. Trees were planted.
4. Man put plastic over the sandy patches.

The purple on this map shows ...

1. The sand landscape
2. The peat landscape
3. The dune landscape
4. The river clay landscape

Dune is formed

1

2

3

4

A small difference in height due to a stick, plant or patch of shells catches the sand .

During low tide the beach dries and the sand graines get loose.

The wind blows loose sand towards the land.

In calm weather conditions the sea brings sand towards the beach.

Which landscape has the most height differences?

1. Sand landscape
2. Sea clay landscape
3. Loess landscape
4. Peat landscape

And now..

10-15 answers correct --> self test online

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