Where is Sweden?
Sweden is a Scandinavian country in the North of Europe. Sweden borders Norway and Finland.
In Sweden, there are two types of
climates:Polar Climate and Continenctal climate.
What happens? Continental Climate
Where does it happen? In this case, in Sweden.
How does it happen?
-Temperature: Hight temperatures in summer and low in winter, because it is away from the sea.
LANDSCAPE
-Rivers:Long and irregular rivers. They carry a lot of water, this happens because there are many little rivers that go into a one big river.
LIFEFORMS
Plantlife:Small trees with pointy tops because it snows.We also can find the tyga forest and steps and grass.
Animallife:Warm blooded animals.They have a lot of hair to protect them selfs from the cold in winter.
POLAR CLIMATE
What happens? Polar Climate
Where does it happen: In or around the polar circles.
How does it happen?
Temperature:Very low temperatures all the year long because the sunrays don't go directly and 6 months in the year there isn't sunlight.
Precipitation:It doesn't rain very much, about 250mm because the water is ice.
Landscape:
Rivers: They are very slow are glaciers, because there isn't water, it is all ice.
Lifeforms
-Vegetation: Lichens and mosses, there aren't any
forest and trees because there isnt't enough water and sunlight.
Animallife:Most of
them are seals, polar bears,wales, migratory birds, foxe... They usually are
big, that means that they have a huge fat layer and they are warm blooded, they
also have small ears.
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SWEDEN ECONOMY
INDEX
1 Economy
2 Currency and gastronomy
3 Agiculture
4 Livestock
5 Fishing
1 ECONOMY
-Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with
a parliamentary form of government.
-The economy of Sweden is a developed export-oriented
diverse economy aided by timber, hydropower, and iron ore. -These constitute the
resource base of an economy oriented toward foreign trade.
-Sweden is a
highly competitive capitalist economy featuring a generous universal welfare state financed through relatively high
income taxes.
-The King, Carlos XVI Gustavo, recovers
only established by protocol functions as Chief of the State.
-Sweden is highly
regulated by the state and they have education, health, housing and supply
provided by the State.
-The economy of Sweden is 33. ª major of
the world. Helped by his pacifism and neutrality during all the 20th century,
the country there reached a boss of enviable life, under a mixed system of
capitalism and social benefits.
- Sweden has a modern system of
distribution of revenue, an excellent system of telecommunications I
hospitalize and with the foreigner, besides an educated well workforce.
- Sweden has gone of being one of the countries with major growth of the world, to suffer a fall of his economy of 1.5 % in 1993.
2 CURRENCY AND GASTRONOMY
National
currency: Swedish crown
Gastronomy:
3 AGRICULTURE
-With
regard to the primary sector, the country is more that self-sufficient in basic
food, and of fact the agricultural production overcomes the internal demand.
-In
big zones of Sweden, this agriculture is
linked to the forest exploitation, which is a complementary occupation of many
farmers.
-The
resources rafters of the country are increasing as result of an intense forest
repopulation and during the last years the forest growth has overcome to the
felling.
-The
forest industry performs a decisive importance for the Swedish economy,
includes the industries of wood, flesh, paper and boards and represents near 15
% of the total exports.
-Sweden
is almost self-sufficient in agricultural products, though only 6,6 % of the
land is cultivated.
-The
intensive subscriber and the mechanization improve the productions of the crops
in spite of the poverty of the soils of many areas, of a rough topography and
of a station of growth it cuts.
-Specially
individual, the agriculture develops intensively in the low lands of the south,
specially in Escania's fertile plains.
-The size of the agrarian fields changes
from the big household tasks up to the small familiar properties; in recent
epoch many small fields have joined major units.
-The majority of the
agricultural production devotes itself to the interior consumption.
-About 2 %
of the active population devotes himself to the agriculture, to the forestry
and to the fishing.
-After
of the World War II the lacteal, traditionally important industry inside the
primary Swedish sector, declined in relation with the production of cereals and
vegetables; The principal agricultural products
continue being the cattle and the derivative products, specially the lacteal
ones.
-The
most out-standing cultures are the cereals and the potatoes; also there are
prominent the cultures of sugar beet, oats and seeds of rape.
4 LIVESTOCK
-It is prominent in the northern
countries the reguarding, in certain epochs of the year, of the cattle in
stables for the crudeness of the cold climate. The animals are taken to the mountain in
the dry and ardent summer, returning to the valley in the winter.
-In Sweden reindeer breeding is one of the principal economic activities
of the Lapps, they don’t use only his
meat they also use his milk, fat and skins.
-Another activity in the North of
Scandinavia is the husbundry of animals piliferous as
foxes and minks which skins are exported.
- The cattle cabin possesses 1,62 million heads
of bull, 1,82 millions of pig, 479.400 of sheep and 6,80 million birds of
corral, approximately.
5 FISHING
-The annual capture of fish of Sweden is 357.317 tons.
-The herring supposes 25 % of the captures; also stand
out the cod, the plaice and the salmon.
-Göteborg is an important fishing port.
-In Sweden approximately 37 species of fish exist to
capture.
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