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In the past most of the landmass on Earth was concentrated in a single large continent?
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True... Called Pangea
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Why is Africa defined as a continent?
Africa is defined as a continent because it makes up a lot of the Earth's surface and is a huge landmass. Although it is slightly connected to Asia, it is pretty much on its own and is virtually a detached continent.
Supercontinent the present landmasses are pieces of what?
Pengaea(plate tectionic)- hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into....
What is a continent and what are the names?
A continent is a major landmass that makes up a substantial amount of the Earth's surface. The continents are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There is also Antarctica, but it has no permanent inhabitants.
Pangaea is where?
Pangea refers to the worlds first landmass, the earth consisted of one ocean and one "super continent". Pangea then split up into Gondwana and Laurasia
How do you use the word continent in sentence?
Africa. Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Antarctica. Antarctica is the southernmost continent of all. Asia. Asia is the largest continent on earth covering about 9 percent of the earth’s surface. Australia. The continent of Australia is a single country continent.
Where located Asian continent in landmass?
On the planet Earth.
Huge landmass on Earth?
the huge landmass is EuropeOne of the huge landmasses on earth is Afro-Eurasia.
What was pangagea?
A prehistoric super continent where all of Earth's landmass was contained.
Why isn't the US a continent?
The US is not a continent because it is only a country and not a major landmass on the Earth. Mexico, Canada and all of Central America is part of that landmass too.
Earth's continents were once part of a single landmass called?
Pangea
What is the largest land mass on the Earth?
The largest single landmass on Earth is Afroeurasia (the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia). It occupies 85,000,000 km2, or about 5 times the size of Russia.
What large anchint landmass that consisted of all the continent on earth?
The 'supercontinent' that contained all the land-masses on earth was called Pangaea.
Is there any landmass under the ice in Antarctica?
Antarctica is, indeed, a continent, making up 10% of the Earth's surface.
What does an ocean differ from a continent?
An ocean is a large body of water that takes up a vast amount of the Earth's water surface. A continent is a large landmass that makes up a lot of the Earth's land surface.
About 200 million years agothe earth's single landmass broke up and started slowly to?
"spread out"
Why is Africa defined as a continent?
Africa is defined as a continent because it makes up a lot of the Earth's surface and is a huge landmass. Although it is slightly connected to Asia, it is pretty much on its own and is virtually a detached continent.
What is the world's largest continent with more than half of the earth's population?
Asia, but in reality Asia and Europe are one landmass, known as Eurasia.
