PAPUK GEOPARK  (English text / cloze exercise done by several students during English class)

 

The main feature of the Eastern part of Croatia – Slavonia - are flat ______________ with large cultivated tracts. Driving through fields stretching away toward the _____________ there are mountains rise to almost a thousand meters above sea _____________ from a the plain which was once the __________ of the Pannonian Sea. One of these mountains is Papuk – the most beautiful mountain in Slavonia.

Since 23rd April 1999 Papuk was designated as a ____________ Nature Park on the basis of its extraordinary geological and biological ______________ and valuable cultural ________________. In 2007 Papuk became the first area in Croatia to be awarded Geopark _______________.

The impressions of the geological characteristics of the landscapes were described in the most beautiful manner by the famous _____________ and essayist Matko Peić, who said:

“Some would not believe if they were told that one of Papuk's peaks is called High Peak, and that it _____________ close to 900 m! It would be hard to understand that here from the plain climbing up are mountains, like crags, like peaks, from the __________ Miocene sea, and that when climbing one comes across _____________ sea shells, ________________, snails, and sea-weeds. They do not realize that during ______________, the volcanic rocks are glowing in the dark and Archean gneisses, mica schist, Silurian layers, shine quartz siltite. They don’t realize when you tell them and point on the _______________ map of Croatia, that the area of Požega is red, meaning that the soil is not made of soft mollusc, but from the eruptive granite ____________, basalt!”

- Matko Peić, "Skitnje"

 

 

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