Please help me with a Netherland (Holland) Project!!!?

Question

If you could please answer these questions.

1.Please tell me the clothing, food and music of Netherlands or Holland.
2. What wildlife or animals live in the Netherlands or Holland and what type of forests(name of them) are there?
3. What types of land is in the Netherlands and what type of climate is there?
4. What are the Netherlands or Holland's natural recources.

Thanks for helping.

Ps. If you could please give the website where you found the information.

Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

Can't you google that out?

I'm a frequent traveller to Holland (German myself), and as to my impression, your questions can be answered as follows:

1. They dress like we all do, that is, jeans and t-shirts, and anoraks in winter. Their food is nothing special, but they have lots of imported food from Indonesia, for instance, which once was a Dutch colony. Indian restaurants abound. The Dutch national dish is "kip saté", that's chicken in a peanut butter sauce. I think it was originally invented in Bali or some other of the Indonesian isles. It's not genuine Dutch. As to music, I'm not an expert. I know people listen to pop and rock music like people do all over the world, but I found that in Amsterdam, there are lots of live concerts going on in the pubs and coffee shops, as street music has been banned by a city law.

2. The Netherlands don't have many forest areas. They have typical European reindeer; but mostly they go hunting birds. Especially near the coast to the North Sea.

3. The Netherlands are special in a type of way as they have land that theoretically can't even exist. It was boggy ground, originally, which they dug out and drained, and planted crops on it, back in the 15th century. They proved it can be done. You can see it in Amsterdam and her "grachten" ("canals"): The whole of the old town is built in circles, not rectangles, and the buildings stand on wooden pillars that lasted for 400 years or more. Venice is nothing compared to that.

4. Agriculture, fishing, and flower sales. They also grow cucumbers and tomatos in large quantities in greenhouses and sell them throughout Europe. As the Dutch soil is not really fit for plants, the Dutch were the first to come up with hydroculture. They cultivated tulips since the Middle Ages, and "tulips from Amsterdam" is still a well-known proverb throughout Europe.

Answer 2

Alwin gives a good answer, let me add the Dutch view.

Clothing is rather informal, many people working in offices go to work in jeans, shirt and sweaters, but a lot do wear suit jacket, pant and shirt.
After work the jeans and T-shirts or sweaters are the most used. Traditional clothing, as seen on the websites and in advertisements, is only used in tourist shops and, rarely, on holidays in a very few towns where they used the traditional dress till about 30 years back.
In the last 30 year only old ladies used the traditional clothes for every day wear, no young people at all.

Food:
Bread for breakfast and lunch, often with cheese or sliced meat, an other favorite are chocolate sprinkles, (in other countries just used on cake.)
Dinner, traditionally, meat, potatoes and one vegetable. Often mashed together.
Now, also a lot of foreign dishes:
Spaghetti, Pizza, Indonesian and Chinese dishes.
When going to a restaurant the food is often based on the French cuisine, but ethnic eateries are common too.

Music is often imported from England and the USA, and much English language songs from the rest of the world.
About one in ten songs on the radio is made in the Netherlands (on average, some channels more.)
I think the percentage of people liking classical music is not much different from the countries around us, as are the other kinds of music.
Even country music is strong, if for a small group.
But compared to the USA each radio station will broadcast a bigger diversity, there are almost no stations that concentrate on one kind of music only.

Most wildlife in the Netherlands is small game, birds and fish, deer are about the biggerst, boar the most dangerous.
Foxes are common in some areas, but most of the people live in suburban conditions and will never see wildlife bigger than the birds in the street.

Natural forrest in the Netherlands would be mixed deciduous of trees like oak, elm and birch, with maybe a few conifers into the mix.
But there is no natural forrest left in the Netherlands.
Now you'll find planted forest of just conifers, or just oak or just whatever.
Even what looks like natural forrest is carefully kept and taken care of.
The most famous 'forrest' is the Veluwe, nationaal park de Hoge veluwe.
The second biggest area, (maybe even bigger) is the area just behind the sea defense, the dunes, (duinen).

Most of the Netherlands is flat, the ground is clay, sometimes sand, sometimes peat (old peat, not the kind still growing.)
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In the outmost east and south there are hills, the rest is really flat. Often reclaimed from lakes or even sea. But even the locals often can not see what is reclaimed or old land, they often look alike.

The climate is a moderate sea climate, there are a few differences throughout the country, but not much.

There is Natural gas, some oil, very little coal (not used anymore,) salt.
There is agriculture, most is dairy cattle, some areas sheep or pigs and chickens for meat, but flowers, bulb flowers, are better known. Greenhouses are a big business, specially in the west of the Netherlands, vegetables and flowers are grown in them.

Most money is now earned in services, not in agriculture or from natural recources.

Answer 3

Only 2 of the 12 provinces in NL are Holland, North Holland n' South Holland.

Answer 4

I wouldn't recommend very young kids having a pet rabbit, as they can be injured by the way some children carry them, or they aren't supported properly and the rabbit struggles the rabbit can break it's own back wriggling. In the end, every rabbit is different with different personalities. In general, rabbits are not the type to be cuddled. They can bond with people, but generally this happens with adults who are calm, and let the rabbit move the relationship at the rabbit's pace. Rabbits are more of a pet for people who like to watch rather than touch, although a lot of adults who own rabbits have managed to bond to a point where the rabbit will seek pets, but not every rabbit is going to do this, and not usually with kids. Rabbits are prey animals, they will not seek to please anyone in the house as there aren't pack "alpha" rabbits. Rabbits will also bite if cornered or threatened by a child wanting to play, and they can give nasty bites and scratches. In personal experience, my rabbit is the sweetest pet I've had, but again, I'm older and I don't push her when she's not comfortable, and she's just around adults who don't chase her. Havanas are generally sweet and easy, so are Lops. In honesty, get a puppy if you want something to cuddle. Kids are just too rough and won't understand what rabbits need to feel safe in a home. They also shouldn't be kept in a cage 24-7 either. 4-6 hours outside the cage in a large room for exercise and play. That can end badly if kids are chasing the rabbit around, though. It will be stressed and unhappy.

Answer 5

I am Dutch too and I think Willeke's answer is the best.
I fully agree with her.
A sea-climate gives cool summers with much rain and mild winters, sometimes some frost, and when the ditches and lakes are well frozen Dutch people like to skate!
Long distance skating is one of Holland's favorite sports in winter. Soccer or football is also very popular.

Answer 6

I have to agree with Willeke being Dutch citizen myself.
Also Holland has 13 provinces..not 12 Axle.