Dutch landscapes practice

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

High Netherlands

Low Netherlands

Which soil type is least fertile?

1. Sand
2. Marine clay
3. River clay
4. Loess

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 the early farmers in the sand landscape use to make their fields fertile?

Which answer fits Low Netherlands best?

1. Lots of forest
2. Land use depends on altitude
3. Block shaped parcelation
4. Glacial erratics

Name two differences between boulder clay mounds and 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. Zeeland
2. South-Limburg
3. Zuid-Holland
4. Gelderland

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

The second-last glacial period is called

1. Pleistocene
2. Saale
3. Weichselian
4. Tiglian

The sand and loess 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. ice cover over the north of the Netherlands.

What is the correct order of a cross-section of the Dutch coast

1. Holland peat - old marine clay - basal peat - Young marine clay
2. Basal peat - Holland peat - old marine clay - - Young marine clay
3. Basal peat - old marine clay - Holland peat - Young marine clay
4. Old marine clay - Holland peat - Young marine clay - Loess

The purple on this map shows ...

1. The sand landscape
2. The peat landscape
3. The dune landscape
4. the marine clay landscape

Dune is formed

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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

The end!