1) Why Finland is known as ‘Land of forests’? 2) Define –Loess. Pls answer this questions and no spam...
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1 Besides the thousands of the lakes in Finland, forests cover most parts of the country. The dominant types of trees in the forest include pine, birch, and spruce. Finland is one of the most densely forested countries in Europe. Consequently, one will quickly spot two colors dominating the land: blue and green.
Loess, an unstratified, geologically recent deposit of silty or loamy material that is usually buff or yellowish brown in colour and is chiefly deposited by the wind. Loess is a sedimentary deposit composed largely of silt-size grains that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate.
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Finland has 10% is water, 69% forest, 8% cultivated land and 13% other. As you can see forest (69%) is greater than other . So thats why Finland is known as ‘Land of forests.
A loosely compacted yellowish-grey deposit of wind-blown sediment of which extensive deposits occur e.g. in eastern China and the American Midwest.