4.4 Flashcards
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Mounds
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Small man-made hills that people built in the clay landscape to live on; in Dutch, this is called a ‘terp’.
2
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Salt marshes
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Areas where so much marine clay is deposited that they are only flooded by a very high tide. In Dutch called ‘kwelders’.
3
Q
Kwelders
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The Dutch word for salt marhes.
4
Q
Polders
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A low-lying area surrounded by dykes where the water level is lower than in surrounding higher land.
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