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That Country Provide: The remaining crops include kale and beans, mostly for fodder, and fruits and vegetables. The average annual production of potatoes is 6.9 million tons and, except in years when bad weather reduces the crop, fills practically all of the country's requirements. Sugar beets, which are important as a rotation crop, provide 30% of the country's sugar.
The results in Table 12.2 provide an even starker contrast. French pupils seem unequivocal in their identification of themselves with approaches. As part of a wider questionnaire concerned with their life in class and at school, pupils in each country were asked six multiple choice questions about their conception of themselves as being English or French. They were asked to agree odisagree with statements intended to assess their feelings of national pride, the extent to which they identified themselves with their country and had a sense of 'belonging' to it, the importance they attach to having a particular nationality, how well they feel their primary schooling has prepared them for future citizenship in their society, the degree to which they have been explicitly taught about the multicultural character of the country, and how far they believe they are part of a country in which everybody is equal. The results are shown in Tables 12.1-12.6, and although they arise out of a study of ten and eleven year olds, it is important to bear in mind that country provide they represent the outcomes of processes underway during the preceding years of infancy and early childhood.
Water. The free-flowing rivers of Britain provide abundant surface water, although the supply has had to be conserved with increasing care in the face of a growing population. Large reservoirs in the Welsh mountains and some of the lakes in the English Lake District also provide a water supply. About 38% of the country's water requirements, however, are obtained from underground sources, the principal aquifers being the chalk (see section 3. Physical Features), which is heavily watered along fissure zones, and two widespread sandstone strata. Abandoned coal mines are becoming important sources, too. |
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