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Flashcards by alecmorley2013, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by alecmorley2013
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| Question | Answer |
| Where are the Alps? | Central Europe |
| In what countries are the Alps in? | France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy etc. |
| How long ago were the Alps formed? | 30 million years ago |
| How were the Alps formed? | African / Eurasian Plate (collision boundary), make fold mountains |
| Tallest peak of the Alps? | Mont Blanc (4810m) |
| Where is the tallest peak? | French/Italian Border |
| Population of the Alps? | 12 million |
| What are the main uses of the Alps? | Farming, Tourism, HEP, Mining, Forestry |
| What are the slopes like? | Steep and upland |
| What is done on the sunnier slopes and give an example? | Terraced for arable farming e.g. Lavaux, Switzerland. |
| What is done on the less sunny slopes? | Goat farming for cheese, milk and meat. |
| How many people visit the Alps each year? | 100 million |
| What percentage of tourists visit in the winter? | 70% |
| What have been built to cope with tourists, give an example? | Villages (e.g. Tignes, France) |
| What activities can be done in the winter? | Skiing, snowboarding, ice climbing due to steep snow |
| What activities can be done in the summer? | Walking, climbing, mountain biking, paragliding. |
| What 'peppers the landscape'? | Restaurants, Chalets, Lifts etc. |
| Percentage of their national energy Switzerland gets from the Alps? | 60% |
| How is HEP used in the Alps (give example)? | Narrow valleys are dammed, e.g. Berne, Switzerland. |
| Where does energy from HEP go? | Locally: Businesses, Homes. Exported: Cities, Towns. |
| Why has mining declined? | Cheap imports |
| What ores can be found in the Alps? | Copper, Salt, Iron, Gold, Silver. |
| What is the main species of tree there and why? | Scots Pine as mountain goats kill other saplings. |
| What happens to the trees there? | Logged for furniture |
| What do adaptations have to be made for? | Steep relief, poor soils, bad communications. |
| How is the relief adapted to? | Goat farming, stop avalanches using trees and man made barriers. |
| How is the soil adapted to? | Animals in higher land as non arable soil. |
| How are communications adapted? | Over passes low areas (Brenner Pass, Austria / Italy); snow/long. Tunnels (Lötschberg Base Tunnel, Bernese Alps, Switzerland) |
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