Amersfoort, introduction

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• Special Education

Introduction

Amersfoort & The Netherlands

Cell phones ready?

Rules

1. No fake names

2. No BS answers

Holland

Contents

• Holland   / The  Netherlands
  
• Holland through time
  
• Polders etc.
  
• Landscapes of Amersfoort
  
• City of Amersfoort
  

Holland vs. The Netherlands

How many bicycles are there in The Netherlands (17 million inhabitants)

1. 22.500.000
2. 45.000.000
3. 12.000.000
4. 1.000.000

Holland is a part of Amsterdam.
This is

1. True
2. False

www.topotijdreis.nl

Amersfoort

AMERSFOORT

What do you think? How was the hill in the middle of the country formed?

1. By plate tectonics
2. By glaciers
3. By wind
4. By humans

Ice Age

- HUN line
- Ice cap
- moraine

Moraine

Our current location

Rock city

- Soesterberg
- 1661

How many years ago, was the Saale Ice Age?

1. 50.000 tot 10.00
2. 200.000 tot 100.000
3. 200.000 tot 300.000
4. 10.000 tot 2000

The Ice Cap glaciers came from

1. Scandinavia
2. The Alps
3. Schotland
4. Russia

1588

1815

Het Hooghe Land, later "Hoogland" 

The High Land

De Amersfoortse Berg

1916

Google Earth tour of Amersfoort

Urban planning

The compact city

Industrial Area

- Nijverheidsweg
- Soesterkwartier

I think the new square is....

1. Nice
2. Ugly
3. I would trade it in for the colosseum

Urban planning

Vinex

What was the name of the newest area of Amersfoort?

1. Vathorst
2. Leusden
3. Nieuwland
4. Holland

Bye!