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Mediterranean Sea
A sea that lies between Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa and is completely landlocked except for the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus, and the Suez Canal.
1,170 Questions
What Asian countries border the Mediterranean Sea?
Countries that border the Mediterranean that are wholly in Asia include: Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine.
Countries that border the Mediterranean and are intercontinental with parts in Asia include: Turkey and Egypt.
What Mediterranean island divided between Turk and Greek natives?
The Mediterranean island is Cyprus.
Which river flows north of africa and flows into the Mediterranean sea?
Egypt's Nile River is probably the most significant of these.
What group mainly settled in the islands of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea?
Megalith builders
What is the salinity average or level of the Red sea and the Mediterranean?
The salinity of the Red Sea ranges from 3.6 to 3.8%.
Why is the Mediterranean sea so blue?
Excellent answer by Lila Koumandou here:
http://www.bluesci.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=504
To summarize, it's because there is very little phosphate in the water to support plankton.
The nearly land locked waters are heated by the sun. This drives evaporation. The water grows more saline, and denser, until it sinks. This sinking occurs at the east end of the Mediterranean. Surface waters flow east to replace the sinking water. The dense salty water flows west on the bottom, and out the straight of Gibralter, carrying most of the nutrients with it. Cold surface water from the Atlantic flows in to replace it.
Interesting related points:
A similar process drives the Atlantic current, which is responsible for northwest Europe's relatively mild climate. The major difference is that the Atlantic current is mainly north-south. Heating takes place at tropical latitudes. The surface water flows north, getting saltier due to evaporation but also getting colder as it goes. It is losing heat to the winds that blow towards England and France. Massive sinking of cold, salty water in the extreme north Atlantic is what drives the rapid flow of the "gulf stream," which is just the most famous part of this system.
Flows of this sort occur in all the oceans and redistribute heat from the tropics toward to poles. Interruptions in these patterns may be what trigger ice ages. We are in an ice age now (no really, look it up) probably because the current positions of the continents tend to isolate the poles from ocean currents.
What country is shaped like a boot and sticks out into the mediterranean sea?
Italy is shaped like a boot.
Chile is shaped like a chili.
What are the three most common spoken languages in the Mediterranean?
The languages that are spoken in Mediterranean countries include the following:
Albanian of Albania;
Arabic of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia;
Aragonese of Spain;
Bosnian of Bosnia-Herzegovina;
Catalan of Spain;
Corsican of Corsica;
Croatian of Bosnia, Croatia;
English of Gibraltar, Malta, and Monaco;
French of Monaco, France, and Corsica;
Greek of Cyprus and Greece;
Hebrew of Israel;
Italian of Italy, Monaco, Sardinia, and Sicily;
Maltese of Malta;
Monégasque of Monaco;
Montenegrin of Montenegro;
Russian of Israel;
Sardinian of Sardinia;
Serbian of Bosnia
Sicilian of Sicily;
Slovenian of Slovenia;
Spanish of Spain;
Turkish of Cyprus and Turkey;
Yiddish of Israel.
What is the capital of the country that is south of Latvia and has coastline on the Baltic Sea?
The country that is south of Latvia and has a coastline on the Baltic Sea is Lithuania. Its capital is Vilnius.
The Rhone River originates in the Swiss Alps and flows into the Mediterranean Sea. It flows through France and passes the cities of Avignon, Arles and Marseille.
What is the easternmost island of th Mediterranean Sea?
The three largest islands are: Sicily, Cyprus and Sardinia. Other islands are: The Maltese Islands, Lampedusa, Corsica, the Balearic Islands, Rhodes, Corfu, Crete, and other small islands near Greece.
What are the straits that run from the Mediterranean sea?
Between the Med & the Atlantic the Straits of Gibraltar & to the Black Sea the Dardanelles.
Is Bulgaria considered a Mediterranean country?
Bulgaria is not considered to be a Mediterranean Country. It is separated from the Sea by Greece and Turkey with a coastline bordering the Black Sea
How many miles does the Mediterranean Sea strech from east to west?
How many miles does the Mediterranean Sea stretch form east to west?
What are the two seas that border Egypt?
The Mediterranean borders Egypt to the North. The Red Sea borders Egypt to the East. Egypt is one of several countries that border 2 or more oceans.
Why did the Phoenicians dominate the Mediterranean sea trade?
They were expert seamen, and took their goods to far off countries and exchanged them for valuable goods to import and onsell, eg sold trade goods from the Eastern Mediterranean and came back with tin from Cornwall in the UK, the textiles they provided to Cornwall got them the tin needed for making bronze which was scarce in the Mediterranean area.
In Egypt the Suez canal separates what two bodies of water?
port said and ends at port taufiq, cutting across marshes and desert areas.
