Jewels of the czech landscape

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Jewels of the czech landscape

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A PERSONAL JEWEL Do you have a favourite place in the Czech republic which you like to visit or which is pleasant to you? Describe what you like there?

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Jewels as in a safe

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1. Some of the places in our landscape are jewels in our hearts, other are attractive for the whole Czech republic and they are under it`s protection. To the most precious areas belong the national parks and conservation areas. Also nature reserves, nature sanctuaries nad memorable trees are protected. Do you know where to find them? In the picture there is a map where are national parks marked in a red colour (NP) and conservation areas in a green colour (CA). Write names of the national parks and name at least three conservation areas marked on the map. Use special literature or internet for help.

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In the pictures you can see symbols and signs which can help you to find national parks and conservation areas. decribe what you can see in the pictures. There is a picture which doesn`t belong to the others, cross it out. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO WALK ONLY ON MARKED TURISTIC TRAILS.

Projekt: Podpora EVVO na základních školách v Pacovì, Registraèní èíslo projektu: CZ.1.07/1.1.01/02.0066 Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpoètem Èeské republiky

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3. On the board of a conservation area Look at the marks and try to write on which side you can find a space inside the conservation area and on which side is a space outside the conservation area. ONE STRIP

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4. How to behave to jewels? It is necessary to follow the rules of behavior in conservation areas not to damage them. The rules are registered even in a law. In the picture you can see an information board where is one of the basic instructions how to behave in a park. However, it is not the only rule. Try to write down other instructions, rules and bans which can stand in conservation areas.

THE FIRST ZONE OF THE NATIONAL PARK YOU ARE ALLOWED TO WALK ONLY ON MARKED TURISTIC TRAILS.


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Jewels of the czech landscape B

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National parks (NP) noticeable elements of the landscape an interesting thing people and architecture

flora fauna

Pupils will match laminated pictures to particular descriptions of national parks.

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NP Èeské Švýcarsko a mountain newt

The national park was established in 2000.

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Sandstone rock towns and towers, deep river canyons and narrow rocky passes in the landscape along the river Labe are typical signs of the Czech Switzerland national park.

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Wetlands along rivers in lower areas of the Èeské Švýcarsko host rare arum plant called calla which belongs to endangered species.

Pravèická brána is the biggest sandstone rock gate in Europe. An immense number of pictures in literary, paintings and photographic works reflects the rarity of the national nature sight which is comparable to similar shapes in a famous national park Arches in the North America.

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Pygmy owl belongs to several species of nocturnal predators (greatly endangered species). It`s nesting in the national park area was proved.

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The unique charm of folk architecture created by a combination of log houses and frame houses in a German style.


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2. NP Šumava - the green roof of Europe Conservation area od Šumava exists from the year 1963 and the National Park Šumava from the year 1990. G Šumava hides Boubínský prales, one of the green Sumava`s F Massive mountain range on the temples which belongs to the Czech-German-Austrian border oldest conservation areas in the belongs to the largest mountain Central Europe. Some of the trees forested area in Middle Europe. are even 400 years old but the Dense spruce groves and mixed wildwood itself is older than a mountain forests, plateaus with mankind. In the ancient times mysterious peatbogs, also the there were wildwoods everywhere silent beauty of glacial lakes in but a human started to cut the ancient glaciers cradles. forests and planted them again. Form the original European H The Celts propably belonged to wildwoods which were not touched the first settlers. The biggest by a human remained only small colonization started just in the islands. Nowadays they are 12th century. It took place along protected with the strictest laws. the most famous trade path http://www.boubinsky-prales.cz/ Gold Path which ran from Pasov to Prachatice. The mill house Žežulka near Prachatice is the example of a Šumava`s log house. CH Gentiana pannonica spreaded out to Sumava from the Alps I Lives are many species of spiders, and it was a very copious plant. beetles, birds and mammals including The mountain dwellers in significant forest predators such as Sumava started to pick up it`s wolves and lynx, who inhabit vast roots a lot and they used them forests of Šumava again. for medicine and alcohol J Maelstroms scoured huge production. It was almost conspicious pots with the help of exterminated but it spreads á k s r grains and small stones in granite ho again in these days. a k t a boulders in the riverbed. øíp

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Jewels of the czech landscape 3. NP Podyjí - A phenomenon called Dyje The national park Podyjí was founded in 1991.

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. In densely forested area on the Austrian border there is 40km long and somewhere up to 200 metres deep river canyon Dyje. It is almost an untouched landscape blazing with wild sceneries of rock walls and stony ravines, sunny forest-steppes with a cover of thermophilic plants even the remarkable river meanders and meadows along Dyje.

In the cover of the low oak forests there are bare rocks in many places. Their surface provides home for a lot of mosses and lichens.

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a black stork

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A wasp-beetle and a grass snake also deserve great attention.

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On the high rocky promontory above Dyje we can find a famous natonal cultural sight a baroque noble residence Vranov nad Dyjí Castle.

We can find here the biggest orchid Cypripedium calceolarium which is signed on the statewide list of the endangered plants.


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4.Krkonoše National park Krkonoše were proclaimed the first National park in the Czech republic in 1963.

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The natural border between the Czech republic and Poland is made up of Krkonoše with the highest mountain Snìžka /1602 metres above sea level/. Nordic and Alpine nature meet here /type of an arc-alpine tundra/.

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It was a natural scientist`s miracle when a blue nightingale appeared in the Krkonoše`s peat bogs. Now a rich population of this species nests in Krkonoše.

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To the famous teasures belongs also a fabled world of botanical gardens. For example a rare spring Alpine pasqueflower grows in Èertova zahrádka in Obøí Dùl.

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Gentian is a symbol of National park Krkonoše.

Pancava`s peatbog was classified as one of the most important world`s wetlands (according to the Ramsar convention.)

Despite insensitive changes in peculiar architecture of log houses in Krkonoše a lot of the folk houses were preserved.


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Jewels of the czech landscape C

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Conservation areas

We can find ................. conservation areas in the Czech republic. On the empty gap fill the number of conservation areas. Use literature or the internet for your help. Here we can meet only some of them.

1. Blaník - a guardian hill Unrepeatable colours of the Czech landscape with a mozaic of forests, meadows, fields, small ponds weaved with the river Blanice this is the Blanik`s landscape. It is our smallest conservation area. It lies in a hilly land in the Central Czech around the memorable hill fabled with the old Czech legends About sleeping knights of St. Wenceslas` army.

On the top of the Big Blanik there was a large Celtic hillfort after that reputedly a castle. Now we can find there a chapel and 32m high wooden lookout tower which symbolises a Hussite`s report.

In the ravine debris forests we can sometimes see also a martagon lily which is a plant protected by law.

Which author did like the landscape and wrote Old Czech legends? What is the name of the legend? Do you know any other authors who deal with the landscape or mention it in their works?


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2. Èeský ráj (The Czech paradise) - In the maze of rocks, pines and ponds It is the oldest conservation area proclaimed in 1955. The landscape of sandstone rocky towns and towers, picturesque ponds, ancient tower houses, castles, even villages with beautiful architecture. It is a real paradise for tourists, mountain climbers and historians.

An eagle owl belongs to the rare kinds of owls which nest here.

One of many works in the natural sculptor`s Vojtìch Kopic gallery is a magnificent stone organ.

Ruins of two towers in the middle-age castle Trosky are called A Virgin and An Old Woman. They belong to the most attractive sights of the Czech paradise.


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Jewels of the czech landscape 3. Litovelské pomoraví - The valley of beavers and snowdrops The landmark here is the river Morava which makes meanders in the mildly rolling landscape as well as in a remarkable limestone hill. In the bottomland forests which are abounded with a large nature variety you can find in spring in the herbal level snowdrops, wood and buttercup anemones. The care of Litovelské pomoraví landscape does not lie only in an unique In the undergrowth of the nature protection but also in a rescue of bottomland forest precious historical we can find an ostrich fern which is and sacral sights. one of the endangered ferns.

The river Morava became again the home of the biggest rodent in Europe the European breaver which was exterminated here in the past.


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4. Tøeboòsko - The South Bohemian ponds The original swampy and densely forested landscape was transformed into the land full of ponds with hundred years old oaks on it`s banks and into the land of meadows interwoven with ingenious water canals and sewers.

Tøeboò basin and mainly a peat-bog around the pond Vizir provides a home for a carnivorous plant called Drosera intermedia. (critically endangered species of the Czech flora.)

A white water-lily which is considered to be a ponds` decoration is another one of the critically endangered species of our flora.

In the Tøeboò area there nest about ten couples of a huge seaeagle.


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5. Žïárské vrchy - Across the Vysoèina The conservation area was founded in 1970. The Czech Moravian highland is a picturesque landscape of forested ridges, gradual cruves of fields, submontane meadows and swinging sweet-smelling peatbogs.

Zdarske vrchy provide home for a rich variety of arachnids.To the 150 listed kinds belongs also a Misumena vatia which is able to change its colour according to the colour of blooms where he waites for a prey.

The rapids character of the river Doubrava suits kingfishers and also their food, small water animals.

The Pernštejn castle is one of the ancient castles which were built during the colonization of the Czech-Moravian highland. It was built in the 13th century and the old yew-trees which grow there are propably one of the oldest trees in the region.


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AN ABSTRACT Choose one national park, conservation area or another landscape which is a jewel for you and present to your classmates why they should visit the area. Before the presenation you should collect data, pictures, photos, quotations and references. You can present your abstract in writing or electronically.

If you found some words or terms which you don`t understand in the worksheet, look them up in special literature or on the internet. The found information you can write into the information gaps.


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