The Balkans are made up of several countries in the south-eastern part of Europe. They stretch from Slovenia in the north to Greece and the European part of Turkey in the southeast. The region has been troubled by many conflicts and wars throughout the centuries. It has often been called the “Powder Keg of Europe” […]
The Thames Barrier is a system that prevents London from being flooded by North Sea storms. It lies in the eastern part of London, about 15 km from the Houses of Parliament. The Thames Barrier was built in the 1970s and has been in operation since 1982. It cost over £500 million and is operated […]
An atoll is a round coral reef that has a lagoon inside it. Atolls develop over a period of millions of years from sunken volcanic islands, when reefs build up around a crater. When these coral reefs emerge from the ocean, they form ring-shaped islands that can be many miles in diameter. Long areas of […]
Land and Water The main difference is that the Arctic region is a gigantic mass of floating ice surrounded by land. The Antarctic is a continent with mountain ranges and plateaus surrounded by an ocean. Ice The southernmost continent has 90% of the world’s ice .About three quarters of the world’s freshwater is locked up […]