4.1 Dutch landscapes

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

4.1 Shaping the landscape

Learning goals

After studying this section, you will be able to:

• Describe what forces of nature formed the Netherlands
• Explain how man has influenced the shaping of the landscape in the Netherlands

Rock vocabulary

boulders - larger than 256mm

cobble - between 65 and 256 mm

pebbles - between 4 and 64 mm

granules - between 2 and 4 mm

sand - smaller than 2 mm

silt - use microscope

clay - use microscope

Soil?

Top layer of the earth's crust, 2 metres thick 

divided into 4 soil types in the Netherlands: 

1. Sand
2. Loess
3. Clay 
4. Peat

landscape in the pleistocene

(especially around terpen and wierden=residential hills)

example: Hegebeintum Friesland

Drag the photo to the correct type of parcel

Strip

Irregular

Modern

Natural landscape has no human influence

1. correct
2. incorrect

In low Netherlands you can find the marine clay, peat and loess landscape

1. correct
2. incorrect

Learning goals

After studying this section, you will be able to:

• Describe what forces of nature formed the Netherlands
• Explain how man has influenced the shaping of the landscape in the Netherlands