Familiarize yourself with the Paikkatietoikkuna map data service.

- Click the "Map Layers" button in the menu on the left, and sort the layers by data producer by selecting the alternative from the drag-down menu.
- Choose the data provider "Natural Resources Finland".
- Select the layer called "Site main class 2015". Close the menus and look at the map.
- The colors on the map display different forest types: broadleaf forest (blue), dry and wet taiga forest (light and deep green), rocky areas (orange) or tundra (brown or gray).

a) Describe what parts of Finland are dominated by

dry taiga forest (tuore kangas)


groves or broadleaf forests (lehto, lehtomainen kangas)


b) Find out how old the trees in your home region are by selecting the map layer "Stand age 2017". What do you discover?