Racisme the word "Europe" means "West". The Western part of the Eurasia continent is Europe, and East Asia. It is believed that the boundary between them runs North to South from the Arctic ocean to the Ural mountains, the river Emba, the Caspian sea, rivers Kuma and Manych, Azov, and Black seas. Then the border goes along the Bosporus, sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles to the Mediterranean sea. Europe is washed by the waters of two oceans - the Atlantic and the Arctic.
The biggest sea Atlantic ocean Mediterranean sea, it is the entire southern border of Europe; the sea is warm and extremely beautiful, especially the European coast and Islands. In Europe, many large peninsulas. For example, the Kola and the Scandinavian Peninsula in the North. The Pyrenees in the West, the Apennine and the Balkan in the South. To Europe include large Islands, as the New Earth, United Kingdom, Iceland, Ireland, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica.
In Europe more lowlands, plains and low hills, high mountains, and in some coastal areas the land lies below sea level, such as the Caspian lowland. The biggest plain in Europe - Eastern European, or Russian. Most of it is in our country. The highest mountains are in the South of Europe. This Alps. The highest peak of the Alps - Mont Blanc. Its height is about 5 km. the Other mountains of medium height, such as the Carpathians, the Pyrenees, the Apennines. A wide and deep river slowly rolling its waters over the plains (the greatest Volga and the Danube), and short mountain stream bubbling and foaming in the rapid run.
In Europe many freshwater lakes. The largest of them - Ladoga and Onega, but there is also a salt lake - Elton and Baskunchak, where salt is extracted. A large variety of different climates of Europe: from the harsh North, especially North of the Arctic circle to the warm and soft to the South, on the shores of the Black and Mediterranean seas.
However, in Northern Europe the climate is much milder than in the North Asia as the West coast of Europe bordered by the warm North Atlantic Gulf stream, which stretches over 10 thousand km from the coast of the Florida Peninsula to the Islands of Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya.
People in the course of economic activity has changed the natural vegetation of Europe. On cultivated fields grow wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat, barley, corn, orchards growing apples, pears, plums, on the South - oranges, lemons, olive trees, grapes. The forest remained mainly in the North and in the mountains. People killed many wild animals. But in the tundra, forests, steppes and lives in the mountains with lots of other animals: furry foxes, squirrels, fleet-footed deer, elk, striped chipmunks, wolves, foxes, bears, hares, wild boars. Many different birds. This - cuckoos, woodpeckers, Tits, sparrows, swallows, black grouse, hazel grouse, partridge, nightingales, Robins. And on the steep shores of the Arctic ocean birds in summer form huge breeding - bird colonies and raise their Chicks.
Since ancient times in Europe have developed different crafts, and industry, agriculture. A high level of science and art. Famous artists, composers, great writers glorified throughout the world