A) Germany B) Italy C) Spain D) France
A) Hexentanzplatz B) Wurmberg C) Rosstrappe D) Brocken
A) Harz National Park B) Bialowieza Forest C) Black Forest D) Amazon Rainforest
A) Rock climbing B) Skiing C) Hiking D) Surfing
A) Rapunzel B) Hansel and Gretel C) Little Red Riding Hood D) Snow White
A) Friedrich Nietzsche B) Karl Marx C) Heinrich Heine D) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A) Limestone B) Sandstone C) Basalt D) Granite
A) Brocken spectre B) Rainbows C) Northern Lights D) Double rainbows
A) Halberstadt B) Quedlinburg C) Goslar D) Erfurt
A) A Latin word meaning 'highland' B) A Celtic name C) The Middle High German word Hardt or Hart (hill forest) D) An Old English term for mountain
A) Saxony-Anhalt, with Brocken as the highest peak B) Nordhausen, with Achtermannshöhe as the highest peak C) Thuringia, with Acker-Bruchberg ridge as the highest peak D) Lower Saxony, with Wurmberg as the highest peak at 971 metres
A) 50 kilometres (31 mi) B) 200 kilometres (124 mi) C) 110 kilometres (68 mi) D) 75 kilometres (47 mi)
A) 50 kilometres (31 mi) B) 35 kilometres (22 mi) C) 45 kilometres (28 mi) D) 20 kilometres (12 mi)
A) It is higher and features fir forests B) It supports arable farming on its plateaus C) It has deciduous forests interspersed with meadows D) It gradually descends into the surrounding area
A) Approximately 300,000 people B) Over 1 million people C) Less than 100,000 people D) Approximately 600,000 people
A) Salzgitter B) Nordhausen C) Goslar and Göttingen D) Harz and Mansfeld-Südharz
A) Heinrichshöhe (1,044 m) B) Acker-Bruchberg ridge (927 m) C) Königsberg (1,023 m) D) Wurmberg (971 m)
A) Fir forests B) Rainforests C) Coniferous forests D) Deciduous forests interspersed with meadows
A) 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi) B) 4,500 square kilometres (1,740 sq mi) C) 2,226 square kilometres (859 sq mi) D) 3,000 square kilometres (1,160 sq mi)
A) Ten rivers B) Twelve rivers C) Eight rivers D) Fifteen rivers
A) To form mountain ponds like the Oderteich B) As tourist attractions C) To create artificial lakes D) For recreational fishing
A) The Oker B) The Bode C) The Innerste D) The Wipper
A) The Wipper B) The Oker C) The Leine D) The Bode
A) The Oker B) The Bode C) The Wipper D) The Innerste
A) The Leine B) The Bode C) The Wipper D) The Oder
A) The eastern side B) The southern side C) The leeward side D) The windward side
A) Hot and humid B) Dry and arid C) Regular precipitation D) Cold with heavy snowfall
A) Palaeozoic era B) Cenozoic era C) Mesozoic era D) Precambrian era
A) Sandstone B) Marble C) Base-poor rocks D) Limestone
A) Oker Valley B) Bode Gorge C) Selke Valley D) Weser Valley
A) Jurassic period B) Tertiary period C) Cretaceous period D) Quaternary period
A) Argillaceous shales B) Granite C) Marble D) Limestone
A) The extinction of marine life B) The appearance of the first dinosaurs C) The most important uplift movements during the sub-Hercynian phase D) The formation of the first mountain range
A) Limestone deposits B) Marble deposits C) Granite deposits D) Sandstone deposits
A) Gießen-Harz surface layer of the Rhenohercynian zone B) Alpine Fault Zone C) Scandinavian Plateau D) Baltic Shield
A) Long, narrow V-shaped valleys B) Wide U-shaped valleys C) Circular basins D) Flat-bottomed valleys
A) English oak (Quercus robur) B) Scots elm (Ulmus glabra) C) Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) D) Sycamore trees (Acer pseudoplatanus)
A) Melic grass beech woods B) Spruce woods C) Mixed woods D) Wood-rush beech woods
A) Spruce woods B) Beech woods C) Oak woods D) Mixed woods
A) Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) B) Scots elm (Ulmus glabra) C) Carpathian birch (Betula pubescens subsp. carpatica) D) English oak (Quercus robur)
A) Green B) Bright yellow C) Rust-red D) Purple
A) The dipper (Cinclus cinclus) B) The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) C) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) D) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
A) Swimming B) Cycling C) Skiing D) Walking
A) The mouflon B) The roe deer C) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) D) The red deer
A) Sphagnum spec. B) Tricholomopsis decora C) Phellinus viticola D) Melic grass
A) Celts B) Homo erectus C) Homo sapiens D) Neanderthals
A) The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel) B) The Magna Carta C) The Code of Hammurabi D) The Roman Twelve Tables
A) Common heather B) Cowberry C) Blueberry D) Bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia)
A) Blueberry B) Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) C) Cross-leaved heath D) Cowberry
A) Skiing B) Hiking C) Nordic walking D) Cycling
A) Alpine skiing B) Cross-country skiing C) Nordic skiing D) Freestyle skiing
A) The Subarctic darner (Aeshna subarctica) B) The Alpine emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora alpestris) C) The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) D) The golden-ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltoni)
A) Lead B) Barite C) Silver D) Copper schist
A) Rammelsberg Mine B) Lange Wand Mine C) Samson Pit D) Büchenberg Mine
A) Wernigerode B) Goslar C) Torfhaus D) Hahnenklee
A) Spruce B) Scots elm C) Common beech D) Sycamore
A) Ellrich concentration camp. B) Mittelbau-Dora near Blankenburg. C) Buchenwald near Ilfeld. D) KZ Dora near Nordhausen.
A) 1705 B) 1588 C) 1668 D) 1718
A) The black stork (Ciconia nigra) B) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) C) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) D) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
A) Albert Peter, Alpine Flowers B) Johannes Thal, Silva hercynia C) Rudolph Augustus, Brocken's Flora D) Hermann Löns, Harz Nature
A) Elbingerode B) Bad Grund C) Goslar D) Mansfeld
A) Calopteryx virgo B) Enthephria caesiata C) Cordulegaster boltoni D) Gnophos sordarius
A) 1 April 1945. B) 15 June 1945. C) 8 May 1945. D) 7 May 1945.
A) In 1798 B) Around 1920 C) In 1852 D) In 1668
A) Albert Peter B) A resident mine worker C) Count Christian Ernest D) Rudolph Augustus
A) The dipper (Cinclus cinclus) B) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) C) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) D) The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
A) Rock climbing contests B) International winter sport competitions C) Mountain biking races D) National hiking events
A) The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) B) The Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus) C) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) D) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
A) 2007 B) 2010 C) 1992 D) 1988
A) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) B) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) C) The black stork (Ciconia nigra) D) The Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus)
A) The pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) B) The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) C) The golden-ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltoni) D) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus)
A) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) B) The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) C) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) D) The red deer
A) Rock climbing B) Winter sports C) Water sports D) Mountain biking
A) Brocken B) Hexentanzplatz C) Roßtrappe D) Wurmberg
A) Sphagnum papillosum B) Sphagnum fallax C) Sphagnum cuspidatum D) Sphagnum magellanicum
A) 50 B) 40 C) 75 D) 62
A) Open moorland B) Spruce woods with dense cover C) Bog spruce forests D) Black woodpecker holes in old beeches
A) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) B) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) C) The black stork (Ciconia nigra) D) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
A) Frederick Barbarossa B) Eike von Repkow C) Charlemagne D) Louis the Pious
A) 421 B) 200 C) 750 D) 1000
A) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) B) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) C) The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) D) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
A) Argentiferous lead ore. B) Potash. C) Copper schist. D) Stone coal.
A) Cattle driving. B) Tourism. C) Woodland clearances. D) Silver mining industry.
A) Beech woods B) Colin zone C) Spruce woods D) Mixed woods
A) 1990 B) 1975 C) 1989 D) 2007
A) Wernigerode B) Altenau C) Nordhausen D) Thale
A) Goslar B) Bad Lauterberg C) Mansfeld D) Elbingerode
A) Riparian woods B) River source woods C) Bog-spruce woods D) Colin zone woods
A) Wernigerode B) Braunlage C) Goslar D) Thale
A) 1920 B) 1705 C) 1818 D) 23 March 1798
A) Förderverein Loipenverbund Harz B) Bergwacht Harz C) Harzer Verkehrsverband (HVV) D) National Park Service
A) Tall grasses B) Peat mosses (Sphagnum spec.) C) Coniferous shrubs D) Deciduous trees
A) In the waterlogged areas B) On the bog margins C) On the drier hummocks D) In the flarks
A) Netzkater Dripstone Cave B) Baumann's Cave C) St. Andreasberg Cave D) Clausthal-Zellerfeld Cave
A) The roe deer B) The lynx C) The red deer D) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris)
A) Cowberry B) Black crowberry C) Cross-leaved heath D) Cranberries (Vaccinium oxicoccus)
A) Sphagnum fallax B) Sphagnum magellanicum C) Sphagnum cuspidatum D) Sphagnum papillosum
A) A common shrub B) An ice age plant C) A tall tree D) A flowering herb
A) 1224 B) 968 C) 852 D) 814
A) Demonstrating walkers first entered a large military out-of-bounds area. B) Mining operations were resumed. C) The border was officially opened for tourism. D) A new hiking trail was inaugurated. |