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Africa and Europe: relief, hydrography, climate - Coggle Diagram
Africa and Europe: relief, hydrography, climate
Europe
By size and population, Europe is the penultimate continent of the world; only Oceania is smaller.
Europe has a very limited coastline profile. Europe is sometimes described as a peninsula of peninsulas. A peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
Europe can be divided into four major physical regions, running from north to south:
Western Uplands, North European Plain, Central Uplands, and Alpine Mountains.
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Central Uplands : It extends from east to west through central Europe and include the western part of France, Belgium, southern Germany, the Czech Republic and parts of northern Switzerland and Austria.
Western Uplands : Also known as the Northern Highlands, they trace a curve at the western end of Europe and define the physical landscape of Scandinavia. They are characterized by their hard and ancient rocks that were shaped by glaciation.
Alpine Mountains : Includes mountain ranges in the Italian and Balkan peninsulas, northern Spain and southern France. These diverse mountain ranges are the Alps themselves, the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Dinaric Alps, the Balkans and the Carpathians.
Africa
Africa is the third biggest continent for its size followed by Asia and America, and the second most populated in the world.
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 predominate.
Forest of the Congo: After a transition zone from the Sahel, the Congo forest occupies most of the Africa center. The second largest tropical forest continues in the world after the Amazonia.
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
of the South African.
Sudanese savanna: A tropical fruit savanna fringe that crosses the African continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian massif.
Okavango Delta: More than a delta, because it does not go out to sea, it is an extensive alluvial region flooded by the Okavango River.
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Sierra of Kenya: A series of mountains including Mount Kenya, which is located in the center of the country to which it gives its name and is the second highest peak in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.
Sahara Desert: The warmest in the world, with 9 million km2 of elevation It covers most of North Africa, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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.