1. Ireland By: Mitchell Tesch, Jesse Warner

2. Physical Geography The island of Ireland is located in the north-west of Europe, between latitudes 51° and 56° N, and longitudes 11° and 5° W.north-west of Europe 51°56° N11°5° W

3. Landforms 5 major landforms Coastline - Ireland’s coastline includes one of its most famous natural features: the Giant’s Causeway. Mountains - Ireland’s mountains are concentrated in the northeast and southwest of the island. In County Down, the Mourne Mountains Rivers - Ireland’s longest river is the Shannon Plateaus - Ireland has two major plateau areas. The first, in County Antrim, Lakes - Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles.

4. Human made Features Newgrange Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery Round Towers

5. Climate mild, moist and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes.

6. Pollution and Management Air Pollution 17.36 Very Low Drinking Water Pollution and Inaccessibility 21.88 Low Dissatisfaction with Garbage Disposal 25.00 Low Dirty and Untidy 47.66 Moderate Noise and Light Pollution 40.62 Moderate Water Pollution 34.68 Low Dissatisfaction to Spend Time in the City 16.91 Very Low Dissatisfaction with Green and Parks in the City 26.72 Low

7. Region

8. Place or Region Both 6 different languages

9. Population 4.959 million

10. Human Interaction Ireland is known for its rich soil and lush vegetation. The people of Ireland reap the benefits by farming and ranching the lands

11. Culture ●Ethnic and racial minorities make up about 12 percent of the population of Ireland. ●Although they are small in number, the nomadic Travellers are an indigenous ethnic minority group, defined by their shared customs, traditions, and language, who have lived in Ireland for centuries. ●In Ireland, Irish is the first official language, and English is the second. ●Ethnic groups include: 96.4% White, 1.7% Asian, 1.1% Black, 0.8% Other. ●Social classes include terms of working class, middle class, and lower class. ●Big Irish human interactions include understatement- non boastful, being easy- going, and slagging or teasing. ●Regional

12. Economy ●Type - The economy of Ireland is a modern knowledge economy, that focuses on services and high-tech industries and dependent on trade, investment and industry. ●Main Industries include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, computer software and hardware, food products, beverages and brewing. ●Imports - Data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum and petroleum products, textiles and clothing. ●Exports - Computers, machinery and equipment, chemicals, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, food products and animal products. ●Agriculture - The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine currently the agri-food sector in Ireland contributes a value of 24 billion euro to the national economy. Ireland is a net importer of cereal grains. Spring Barley is the most popular cereal crop grown by farmers and is used for the malting, seed and feed industries in the country. Winter wheat, winter barley and winter and spring oats are the other important grain crops produced for the agri-food industry. ●Trade - Main export partners : U.S., U.K., Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Spain. Main import partners : U.K., U.S., Germany, China, Netherlands, France, Norway, Japan.

13. Natural Resources Natural resources include natural gas, petroleum, peat, copper, lead, blueberries, dolomite, barite, limestone, gypsum, silver and zinc.

14. Human Resources A big human resource in Ireland would be taxing, claims of a tax yield of some 1.7 billion euro.