Chapter 15&16 – Flashcards

1990s Underwater (English Channel) tunnel that links Great Britain and France.

Broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog.

An area of wet, spongy ground.

Narrow valleys in Scotland.

Spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel.

A narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice.

A variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community.

A style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows.

An embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water.

An area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea.

A political division or state; one of the states in Switzerland.

River that flows through London, England.

Rugby.

1. Sheep. 2. Dairy cows. 3. Vegetables. 4. Wheat. 5. Beef cows. (Cattle or beeves.)

Scotland with the invention of the steam engine by James Watt.

1. Sheep. 2. Fishing. 3. Oil.

Coal mining.

Potato famine reduced the population by almost half both by starvation and massive migration.

1. Fishing. 2. Agriculture. 3. Mining. 4. Oil production. 5. Forestry.

1. Tourism. 2. Farming. 3. Viniculture. 4. Manufacturing.

1. Manufacturing/Industry. 2. Mining. 3. Farming.

1871.

20% (1/5)

1. Flemish (dialect of Dutch in North) 2. French (South)

They were allies with Germany and was carved up after WW2.

1. German. 2. French. 3. Italian. 4. Romansch. (Swiss language)

High lands and slopes down to plains and then back up to the Alps. Similar to a bowl/basin.

The Netherlands has one of the oldest land reclamation efforts in the world. The Dutch began to reclaim marshy lowlands from the North Sea which resulted in new dry land called polders. It was created with protective dikes and drainage ditches. Windmills are also used to make pumping excess water off the land much easier. In 1932, the Dutch created a dike approximated 20 miles across the water to fix the impending problem of Zuider Zee. Despite these efforts, the sea continued its assault and so the Delta Plan was undertaken. This plan included a network of dams that was finally completed in the 1980s. . There is the issue of insecticides used by farmers that are are contributors to contaminated drinking water and acid rain. Some plans have been abandoned due to these concerns and even resulted in the destruction of fields by tearing down dikes. One of the biggest issues is, however, that the sea levels are predicted to increase by 20 inches due to global warming. The " greenhouse gases" environmental strategy is likely to be cut by the Dutch government because it is claimed to be responsible for global warming.