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