SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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They reclaimed land from the sea & made a freshwater lake
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they made a saltwater lake
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they gave up land
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The nation of the Netherlands has reclaimed more than a thousand hectares of land from the North Sea by constructing dikes along many tidal basins. The Dutch, people from the Netherlands, use the reclaimed land, called polders, for agriculture, residential, and industrial use.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cordon off sections of the shallow sea with hundreds of miles of dams and dikes like this. Then, by draining each section dry, piece by piece, build a bigger country. These fields were once the bottom of that wide-open sea. Gradually, land was reclaimed and today the Netherlands is twice the size it was 400 years ago.
Detailed explanation-3: -Around 17% of the country’s current land area has been reclaimed from the sea or lakes. Here are a few more facts about land area of the Netherlands: 26% of its area is located below sea level.
Detailed explanation-4: -Storms and floods in 1916 provided the impetus for the Dutch to start a major project to reclaim the Zuiderzee. From 1927 to 1932, a 19-mile (30.5-kilometer) long dike called Afsluitdijk (the “Closing Dike") was built, turning the Zuiderzee into the IJsselmeer, a freshwater lake.