The Netherlands
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 polders | Land reclaimed from where water once was. Very fertile. |
| dikes | Barriers holding back water from places that are under sea level |
| terpen | The first dikes built in the Netherlands over 2000 years ago. |
| land reclamation | The process in which people built dikes to close in a section of water, then drain the water, creating more land. |
| farming | What people do on the polders, causing it to sink a lot of times. |
| Rotterdam | Largest port in the world |
| Amsterdam | The Netherlands' capital |
| North Sea | Netherlands' main flood fears come from this sea. |
| Delta Plan | A network of dams that took 30 years in all to build. |
| Population Increase | The reason for making polders in he first place. |
| agriculture | Export reason for the Netherlands to continue to protect their polders from the North Sea. |
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