Iceland

this is icelands flag
 * =__[[image:http://www.flagsinformation.com/icelandic-flag.png width="320" height="257" align="right"]]//**Iceland**//__ =

//**iceland is located in Europe**//


 * __3 interesting facts about Iceland__**


 * Iceland is a hot spot for volcanic and other geothermal activity.


 * It has many glaciers and mountians.

most productive country in the world.
 * Iceland is considered as the 4th

//**__Icelands recources__**//


 * some resources of iceland: fish, dianomite,cured ram scrota, cured shark, singed sheep **heads**, and black pudding.

Iceland lacks in many resources.Fish is the main resouces.

__//**Icelands GNP, quality of life, and hapiness index**//__

GNP is products and labor supplied by people in a countruy in one year.

The GNP is 13 billion dollars. They rank #91 in the world.

Iceland rates #7 in the quality of life

hapiness index is the 5th rated contry in the world.

__//**why does Iceland need to have stewardship?**//__

it is very important for iceland to be responsible with their resources, if their not, they might give away all their fish, and then they cant trade their fish for other resourses that their running out of.


 * //__Iceland is democratic!__//**

Iceland lives under a democratic government. in iceland, they vote. right now, the president of iceland is Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.

iceland is circumpolar country. iceland uses geothermal energy **geothermal energy**. In areas where hot springs or geothermal reservoirs are near the Earth's surface, hot [|water] can be piped in directly to heat homes or office buildings. Geothermal water is pumped through a heat exchanger, which transfers the heat from the water into the building's heating system. The used water is injected back down a well into the reservoir to be reheated and used again.

the physical features of iceland have: Iceland consists mainly of a central volcanic plateau, in iceland there is also alot of mountians, and water.