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AFRICA, EUROPE - Coggle Diagram
AFRICA
MAIN ECOSYSTEMS
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world, with 9 million km2 of elevation.
It covers most of North Africa, from the
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African continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian massif.
Forest of the Congo: After a transition zone from the Sahel, the Congo
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Namib Desert: It is the oldest desert in the world, since it existed during the
Tertiary Era, 65 million years ago.
Kalahari Desert: Of 930,000 km2 of extension, it crosses several countries
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Okavango Delta: More than a delta,
because it does not go out to sea, it is an
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Okavango River, it is born from a quite rainy
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Great Rift Valleys hosts a series of large lakes, the best known being Lake
Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world.
Sierra of Kenya: A series of mountains including Mount Kenya, which is
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second highest peak in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.
Ethiopian Massif: It is the mountainous region, formed by high plateaus and
plateaus, which extends to an average height of 1,500 meters above sea
level by Etopia, Eritrea and north of Somalia in northwest Africa.
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4,830 km in a north-south direction, and in Africa it goes from Djibouti to
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GEOGRAPHY
The average height of Africa is 600 meters above sea level, and it does not have,
like other continents, extremely high zones and other low ones, because plateaus
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Africa is a continent crossed by the equinoctial line and as it is so long, it extends
from the temperate zones of the north to the temperate zones of the south,
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EUROPE
PHYSICAL REGIONS
Europe can be divided into four major physical regions, running from north to south:
Western Uplands, North European Plain, Central Uplands, and Alpine Mountains.
o Western Uplands : Also known as the Northern Highlands, they trace a curve at
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the glaciers receded , they left a number of distinct physical features, including an
abundance of marshlands, lakes and fjords. A fjord is a long and narrow inlet of
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France, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Germany, Denmark, Poland, the Baltic
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the western part of France, Belgium,
southern Germany, the Czech Republic
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Austria. This region is sparsely populated,
except in the Rhine, Rohne, Elbe and
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the Italian and Balkan peninsulas, northern Spain
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ranges are the Alps themselves, the Pyrenees,
the Apennines, the Dinaric Alps, the Balkans and
the Carpathians. High elevations,
rugged plateaus, and steeply sloping land
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is Mount Elbrus, located in the Caucasus
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GENERAL
CONSIDERATIONS
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million km2, including its
adjacent islands, it covers 2%
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bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and
the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas to the south
Europe’s main peninsulas are the Iberian, Italian, and Balkans, located in southern
Europe, and the Scandinavian and Jutland, located in northern Europe.