Alps

What carved this physical landscape? Identify three land use zones?

Answers:

• alpine glaciers, which are similar to continental glaciers except much smaller and weaker

• 1) valley floor with villages, towns, and railroads;

• 2) up slope, cultivated fields with scattered hay barns;

• 3) highest slopes and north-facing ones, forests

Optional and just for fun take a short side-trip to the Bavarian Alps.

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 February 1996; last revised on 30 August 2004.