subject: The Well Known Alps Mountain Range Of Europe Is A Unique Place On Earth. [print this page] The Alps draw out from Austria and Slovenia in the east and in the west through Italy, Switzerland plus Germany to France.
Mount Blanc is the maximum mountain in the Alps. The Alps is 15,774 feet high. The Lake Constance and Lake Como, split the Alps into the western Alps and the Eastern Alps. Read more Opmagasinering aarhus
The Alps have been pass through for war and commerce and later by pilgrims, students and tourists. The Alps are divided into five climate zones. Each of these zones has a different kind of environment.
The mountains different sections have different type of weather plant life and animal life. The Alps have risen as a effect of the collision of the African and European tectonic plates.
The zone Neve of the Alps is above 3000 meters and is the coldest climate of the mountain is permanently covered with solid snow. Therefore plants are rare in this zone.
The Alpine zone lies between the height of 2000 and 3000 meters. This zone is a smaller amount cold than the Neve zone. Wild flowers and various types of grass grow here. Read more Kosttilskud der virker
Below the Alpine zone the subalpine zone is located. This is 1500 2000 and 3000 meters high. Forests of fir trees and trim trees grow here as the temperature is a little bit higher here.
The zone which is about 1000 1500 meters high is named as the arable zone. This area is infested with oak trees. In this locale farming too takes place.
Below 1000 meters are the lowlands. Here a large diversity of plants can be found. Here the temperature is manageable for human and animals and villages also are in the lowlands.
During winter and summer the Alps are accepted as a destination for sightseeing and sports. More than 100 million inhabitants visit the Alps yearly.
The Alps are visited by a large number of mountaineers and skiers. But climate changes will cause more heat waves, floods and avalanches and the Alps peaks will be very dangerous, for these visitors.
Great weather events are predicted to become more normal. In the Eastern European Alps two considerable natural disasters took place in 2003 and 2005. The two adversity were a heat wave in 2003 and a flood in 2005. Read more Lasersvejsning
The lethal European heat wave of 2003 scorched the Alpine glaciers and melted them to record lows. This set off avalanches and flash floods across the region.
