The Alps
- Created by: Megan1404
- Created on: 13-05-16 08:49
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- The Alps
- Human activities
- Farming
- Dairy
- Transhumance
- Seasonal movement of animals
- Cable cars bring milk to co-op dairies on valley floor
- Farms located on south facing slopes
- Farmers buy extra food so cattle can feed all year
- Tourism
- Ski resorts
- Scenery
- Glacial lakes
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- HEP
- High precipitation, melting glaciers
- Narrow valleys easier to dam
- Forestry
- Main material is wood
- Conifers found in abundance
- Farming
- Climate
- Cold, wet, windy and snowy at higher levels
- Can't grow crops
- Physical problems
- Relief = high and steep, not much flat land
- Accessibility
- Bad weather
- Rock falls
- Avalanches
- Soils
- Thin, stony, infertile
- Cold, wet, windy and snowy at higher levels
- Physical problems
- Relief = high and steep, not much flat land
- Accessibility
- Bad weather
- Rock falls
- Avalanches
- Soils
- Thin, stony, infertile
- Location
- Central Europe
- Borders Italy; France; Switzerland; Austria; Slovenia
- Central Europe
- Human activities
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