The smallest sea on Earth.
There are a lot of seas on our Earth. All of them differ from each other in size, depth, location, composition of water and marine life. Some seas are warm, others are cold, there are very large, deep seas, and there are very small ones. And which of the seas is the smallest on our planet?
The world's shallowest sea - Azov .It belongs to the system of the Mediterranean Sea of the Atlantic Ocean and is located in Eastern Europe, it ishes part of the territory of Ukraine and Russia.
The southern part of the sea with the Kerch Strait connects to the Black Sea. Its depth is only 13.5 meters, the total water surface of 37800 square meters.km, and the length of the sea stretches for 380 km, the width is 200 km. This shallow sea in the cold winters is partly covered by ice, the summer water temperature reaches up to + 28.5 ° C.
Periodically there are strong storms on the sea, despite a small depth, there were cases when during heavy storms sea ships sank.
The waters of the Azov Sea are heavily polluted with waste from industrial enterprises and cities located along the coast.
The seashores are sandy, flat, on the southern shore there are hills of volcanic origin, turning into steep mountains. On the coast of the Azov Sea are resorts, health resorts, recreation centers with beaches.
Waters of the Sea of Azov are turbid, the salinity of water is three times less than the salinity of the ocean, as water is desalinized by rivers, especially the Don and Kuban, the sea is rich in marine life. In its waters live more than a hundred species of commercial fish, such as bulls, tulka, flounder, pike, ide, ram, sterlet, horse mackerel, mackerel herring.
There are also valuable commercial species - beluga, sturgeon, stellate sturgeon, and other fish species. From mammals in the Sea of Azov, a sea pig or the Azov dolphin can be found.
But the bowels of the Azov Sea are rich not only in animal organisms, there are found industrial reserves of natural gas, as well as various minerals.