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What is the term for a large landmass that is smaller than a continent and often separated from the main landmass by physical barriers such as mountains?
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∙ 11y ago
Subcontinent.
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A landmass not as large as a continent surrounded by water?
a island
What is a term for a very large landmass?
a continent you mean?
What is the name of Earths' early continent when it was one landmass?
Pangea.
What is A large mass of land surrounded of water?
An island, or in the case of very large ones, a continental landmass.
What is the biggest continent and what part of the continent is biggest?
The continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa are connected by land, making them the largest continental area. The largest continent by definition is Asia, which is the larger eastern part of the landmass of Eurasia.
What is the term for a large landmass that is smaller than continent and often separated from the main landmass by physical barriers such as mountains?
Your momma. No actually, they often call India the subcontinent. The reason it is separated by mountains is that it belongs to its own continental plate and is pushing against the rest of Asia causing those mountains.
What is Europeanization?
A native or inhabitant of Europe. If you need to know where Europe is - a continent in the western part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural mountains on the east and the Black and Caspian seas on the south east
What is a large landmass that juts out from a continent?
a landmass that juts out from a continent is a sub continent
What is landscape in the south pole?
The South Pole is on the continent of Antarctica. Antarctica is an ice-covered landmass, with mountains..
What two continents are part of one huge land mass they are separated by a chain of mountains?
Europe and Asia are two connected continents that form the landmass of Eurasia. They are separated by two major mountain chains, the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains, in addition to the Bosporus Strait and the Ural River. Asia is also connected to the continent of Africa by the Isthmus of Suez, which makes Europe indirectly connected to Africa. All together, these three continents form the largest landmass on the Earth today: Afro-Eurasia.
What is difference between continent and sub continent?
a continent is a large landmass which is ideally separated by large expanse of water..it has distinct features like mountains,valleys, plains, plateaus, deserts,climatic conditions etc and is composed of countries.. but a subcontinent is a large landmass which is inside a continent but having the special distinctive feature of that of a continent like mountain ranges that separate it from the rest of the continent,sea surrounding it,plateaus,plains,deserts and most importantly varied climatic conditions on different parts of it.. a subcontinent has every feature to be called as a continent except that it is not large enough to be called a continent
What is the definition of 'Landmass'?
A landmass is a large, continuous, and unbroken area such as an island or a continent. Synonyms for the word landmass include continent, mainland, and main.
What is another science word for landmass?
A landmass can be a continent or an island.
Is South America considered a continent and why?
Yes, South America is a continent. Simply because it is a large landmass. There is a size at which a landmass is considered a continent or not.
Describe what a continent is?
A continent is a large continuous landmass.
Large landmass that is smaller than a continent is called?
A large landmass that is smaller than a continent is called a subcontinent
What is the difference of continent and land masses?
A continent is a giant landmass. In fact, its perhaps the largest type of landmass (excluding supercontinents).
