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