The Alps - Fold Mountian

Background:

• Central Europe - France, Italy, Swiitzerland and Autria
• Created 30 million years ago by African and Eurasian plates.
• 12 million people.
• Tallest point Mont Blanc at 4810m

Farming:

• Goat farming in steep hills as they are well adapted. provide milk, cheese and meat
• Sunnier slopes are terraced and used to for vineyards. (Lauex, Switzerland)

Hyro - Electric Power (HEP)

• Narrow valleys are dammed to generate HEP
• Switzerland get 60% of electricty from HEP in Alps

Tourism:

• 100 million toursit each year. 70% for winter sports. Other 30% come for scenary and walking.
• new villages and tourist sites set up like Chamonix, and ski lifts and cable cars located everywhere.

Minning:

• Silver, iron, gold, salt, copper are minned but declided due to cheaper sources

Forestry:

• Scots pine planted as it is more resilient to muching goats and these are sold to make furniutre.

Steep Relief:

• Goats farmed on steep slopes as they are adapted
• Trees and fences and avalache shed buit to break up avalanche

Poor Soil:

• Animals grazed in areas with poor soil

Communication:

• Roads built over passes such as Brenner Pass, but can become blocked by snow.
• Tunnels cut through mountian eg Lotsberg Base Tunnel.