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Continents and Oceans

Continents and Oceans

• continents-Largest landmasses on the planet. BIGGER than countries, states, and cities.

• oceans-oceans are huge bodies of saltwater, there is one world ocean but it is divided into 5 main areas.

continents

• Asia

• Africa

• North America

• South America

• Antarctica

• Europe

• Australia

Asia

• largest continent

• home to 60 percent of the world population

• worlds most spoken languages.

• Chinese is the world most spoken language with almost 1.4 billion people speaking it

Africa

• Africa is the continent with most countries;54

• most diverse in language and culture

• oldest human fossils and skull discovered here.

• richest in natural resources

• it also houses the world's longest river, the Nile River, which starts in Egypt, and the world's second-highest waterfall Tugela Falls.

Antarctica

• It has zero population

• it is a dessert

• it has no time zone

• it holds the world most freshwater

Europe

• the European continents houses almost 50 countries

• 27 belong to the European Union (EU)

• the smallest country in Europe is Vatican city, home of the pope

• the largest country in Europe is Russia, Istanbul lies in Europe as well as Asia

• It connects with Asia, through a canal called the Suez Canal, which lies in Egypt.

• Most of the europe follows christinity with small number of muslim and jews population

Australia

• Australia is sixth in size behind Russia, Canada, the United States, China, and Brazil.

• However, Australia is the only country that is also a continent. For this reason, it’s also known as the island continent

•  20% of Australia is desert and only about 60% considered habitable, as the rest is too dry for human habitation.

• there are a lot of venomous animals on this island continent.

  For example, there are many deadly snakes, scorpions as well as 40 species of funnel-web spiders.

North America and south America

• North America is the third largest continent in the world, ranking just below Asia and Africa

• North and South America are usually considered as subcontinents, while America is the larger continent of which these two are part of.

• North America is bordered by three of the world’s largest oceans, namely the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific.

• South America includes the following countries: Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Suriname, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Colombia, Guyana, and Ecuador.

• The largest country in South America is Brazil, 

• One of the earliest cultures of South America was at Norte Chico along the central coast of Peru. 

Oceans

• Oceans are enormous bodies of water that collectively cover about 71% of our planet’s surface.

• we have 5 oceans

• pacific ocean

• Southern ocean

• Indian ocean

• Atlantic ocean

• Arctic ocean

Southern ocean

• it the newest addition to the ocean family

• The Southern Ocean is a large ocean located in the southernmost part of the planet and surrounds Antarctica. Also known as the Austral Ocean or the Antarctic Ocean

• on June 8, world ocean day. the southern ocean was confirmed as the fifth ocean of the world

• it is the second-largest ocean on earth

oceans

• The deepest part of the world’s oceans is in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.

• the pacific ocean is the world largest ocean ,

• The biggest waterfall in the world is in the ocean. It is located in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. It is about three times higher than Angel Falls in Venezuela, while the Angel Falls waterfall is usually called the highest waterfall on Earth.

• the plastic straw and oils from ships are main culprit in creating pollution in ocean