Fold Mountains - The Alps
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- Created on: 18-06-13 09:29
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- Fold Mountains - The Alps
- Tourism
- Summer Tourism
- Visitors come from all over europe
- Activities like walking and sailing etc
- Good communication routes (road, train, airports)
- attracted by climate
- Winter Tourism
- Sking, snowboarding etc
- winter resorts
- good snowfall
- Summer Tourism
- Farming
- main primary activity
- restricited because height and steepness
- the valley floor -flatter, moer fertile, sheltered, accessable communications
- takes place on south facing slopes - dryer, warmer
- dairy farming
- method called transhumance
- sheep farming
- summer-animal graze in mountains
- winter-animals kept in barn and fed
- cereal is grown in summer and eat in winter
- Forestry
- Coniferous trees in alps
- planted as crop
- trees cover north-facing sllopes
- logging countries cut down trees
- downwards sloping branches let snpw pass
- people live in foresrty area
- rely on trees for timber and fuel
- timber manufacturing
- Coniferous trees in alps
- Hydro-electric power (HEP)
- the production of power through the use of the gravitational force of flowing or falling water
- steep slopes fast flowing water-more power
- narrow river create valley
- lakes that store water
- makes power for local towns
- Formations
- two continental plates moving together
- collision plate boundary
- compression of sediments are folded into mountains
- Tourism
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