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Continents
There are a total of seven continents on earth: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. This category should contain questions regarding the continents.
6,600 Questions
Which continent is ionian island?
i believe those islands are off the coast of albania, which is in europe.
Which continent is the smallest in size Africa Australia or Antarctica?
Australia is the smallest continent on earth. Africa - 30,300,000 sq km
Antarctica - 14,000,000 sq km (island continent)
Australia - 7,686,850 sq km (island continent)
What continent is El Morro on?
El Morro is in the continent of South America, located around Cuba and is a territory of the United States of America.
Which body of water is to the east of North America?
The Atlantic Ocean is to the east of North America.
What is the acronym for the continents?
Never eat ants as a snack anytime
north america
europe
antartica
asia
south america
africa
How many continents lie partially or completely south of the equator?
Australia and Antarctica are completely south of the equator. South Ameeica, Asia and Africa are partially south of the equator.
Which is the second largest continent in the world?
I believe the African Continent is the second largest.
What connected the continents of Asia and North America long ago?
The Bering Land Bridge connected Asia and North America during the last ice age, allowing humans and animals to migrate between the two continents. This land bridge formed when sea levels were lower due to the large amount of water frozen in glaciers.
Up next to Antarctica on the bottom of the equator.^_^
Cambodia is a country located in Southeast Asia, bordered by Thailand to the west and northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east and southeast, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. Its capital and largest city is Phnom Penh.
What continent is farthest north?
North America is the continent farthest north. Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark in the North Atlantic Ocean, contains the northernmost point on the continent.
What is the only continent no one lives on?
There is no country without anyone! There are only some places without anyone
What is the only single-nation continent?
Australia is the only single-nation continent, as it is both a country and a continent on its own.
Ocean currents flow from east to west near the?
Equator due to the trade winds pushing the surface waters westward. This creates the Equatorial Counter Current, which flows eastward at the surface.
What was the first colony on the North American continent?
The first successful English colony in North America was Jamestown, founded in 1607 in present-day Virginia. This settlement marked the beginning of sustained English colonization in the region.
Which two continents are only in the southern hemisphere?
Australia and Antarctica are the two continents that are entirely located in the Southern Hemisphere.
north America, south America, Asia ,Europe, Australia,Africa,Antarctica
What is the worlds largest island that is not a continent?
The world's largest island that is not a continent is Greenland. It is located in the North Atlantic Ocean and is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland is known for its stunning landscapes, including glaciers, fjords, and icebergs.
Why do our continents look like they do today?
The continents look the way they do today due to the movement of tectonic plates over millions of years. Plate tectonics have caused the continents to drift apart, collide, or slide past each other, leading to the current configuration. This process also influences the shapes of coastlines and mountain ranges.
Which continent is suffering from drought?
Australia is and has been and it also isn't unusuall for them.
Most of Australia, other than the tropics, has been in drought for the past 12 years. Periodically, shires (regions) are taken off the list of drought-declared areas, but given Australia's essentially dry nature; they Australia has had many droughts, and in some parts of the country these droughts are continuing even today. There is always a region or shire in Australia which is drought-declared at any given time. It is the geography of the continent which makes Australia so prone to droughts. Some of Australia's major historical droughts include:
- The "Federation drought" 1895-1902
- The drought of 1914-15
- The World War II droughts between 1937-45
- 1965-68 drought
- The 1982-83 drought, culminating in the horrific Ash Wednesday bushfires
- El Niño - 1991 through to 1995
This list is by no means exhaustive, as drought continues in many regions, and has done so since the beginning of this new millennium.
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False. The concept of continental drift and the idea that continents could fit together like pieces of a puzzle was proposed in the early 20th century by Alfred Wegener, a meteorologist, not by geographers in the 1500s.
Which continent is called white continent andwhy?
Antarctica because of all the white snow and ice. You should've used your imagination there, because Antarctica is the coldest and snowiest of all the continents so it would be the whitest.
The white continent is a cruise and tourism. The cruise and tourism is in Antarctica.
