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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.
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Which continent spans across 3 hemispheres?
There are four continents that are partly in three hemispheres.
Both Asia and Africa extend into four: the western and eastern hemispheres as well as the northern and southern hemispheres, albeit slightly in the case of Asia (western Russia, Indonesia).
Europe and North America are in the northern, eastern, and western (counting the Aleutian Islands).
South America is in the northern, southern, and western.
Antarctica is in the southern, eastern and western.
Australia is only in two: the southern and the eastern hemispheres.
Who proposed that Pangaea broke up into two large continents Laurasia and Gondwanaland?
The theory that Pangaea broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland was proposed by Alfred Wegener in the early 20th century as part of his theory of continental drift. Wegener suggested that these two supercontinents eventually drifted apart to form the continents we see today.
Which continents are located entirely within the southern the southern hemisphere?
Antarctica and Australia are the continents that are entirely located within the Southern Hemisphere.
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Which groups converged a new nation on the North American continent?
The thirteen British colonies in North America converged to form a new nation by declaring independence from Great Britain in 1776. This led to the creation of the United States of America.
What continent is entirely in the northern and western hemisphere?
Excluding American overseas territories like Guam and American Samoa, North America is located entirely within the northern and Western Hemisphere.
What re all seven continents in the world?
North america, south america, africa, aisa, europe, australia, antarctica!
What two continentsare located entirely within the southern hemisphire?
Australia and Antarctica are the two continents entirely located within the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the name of the continent that contains most of the diamonds and gold?
Since not all gold and not all diamonds have been mined/ discovered, it is not possible to give you the answer that you want.
Understand, however, that there are no diamonds on Europe or Antarctica, so that narrows the candidates.
The Robinson projection map shows the shapes of the continents more accurately than the Mercator projection map, but both distort the sizes of landmasses, making areas near the poles appear larger than they are. Waterways and continents are more accurately depicted in size and shape on specialized maps like the Winkel Tripel projection, which aims to balance size and shape distortions.
This is likely SUB CONTINENT - the word subcontinent is a part of a continent that has a specific location, culture, or geography.
The word sud in French is the direction south (e.g. continent vers le sud - the continent to the south) but is not an adjective.
The Spanish form of sud is seen in Sudamérica, meaning South America.
How did the first africans find themselves on the north American continent?
The first Africans arrived in North America as slaves through the transatlantic slave trade, which forcibly brought millions of Africans to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. They were brought by European colonizers to work on plantations and in other industries.
What continent and country is Lhotse located in?
Lhotse is located in the continent of Asia, specifically in the country of Nepal. It is situated along the border between Nepal and Tibet, which is an autonomous region of China.
What is the small continent in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres?
Australia. It is the only continent entirely within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
Is a trench that stretches for several miles underwater lies off the coast of each continent?
Yes, there are deep oceanic trenches located off the coasts of all continents. These trenches are formed at tectonic plate boundaries, where one plate is being pushed beneath another in a process known as subduction. Examples include the Peru-Chile Trench off South America and the Java Trench off Asia.
What continent is known as treeless continent?
Antarctica is known as the treeless continent, as it has very few trees due to its extreme cold and dry conditions. The Antarctic landscape is mainly covered by ice and snow, with very limited plant life.
What continent is demacratic republic of Congo in?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country in Africa.
What continent has the fewist numbers of nations?
Antarctica has no nations whatsoever. South America has twelve, the second smallest.
Which continents have high HDI countries in?
All countries with a very high HDI rating can be found in Europe with the exception of Australia (2), the USA (3), New Zealand (5), Canada (5), Japan (12), South Korea (15), Israel (17), Singapore (26), UAE (30), Brunei (32), Qatar (37), Bahrain (42), Chile (43), Argentina (45), and Barbados (47). That means about three quarters of the most developed countries are European.
Most countries with a high HDI rating can be found in Europe. The non-European countries are Uruguay (48), Palau (49), Cuba (51), Seychelles (52), Bahamas (53), Saudi Arabia (56), Mexico (56), Panama (58), Antigua and Barbuda (60), Malaysia (61), Trinidad and Tobago (62), Kuwait (62), Libya (62), Grenada (67), Costa Rica (69), Lebanon (70), Saint Kitts and Nevis (72), Venezuela (72), Mauritius (77), Jamaica (79), Peru (80), Dominica (81), Saint Lucia (82), Ecuador (83), Brazil (84), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (85), Colombia (87), Iran (88), Oman (89), Tonga (90), Belize (92), and Tunisia (94). That means about a third of highly developed countries are European. Roughly a third of these countries are also North American and the remaining third is mostly Asian.
North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia & Oceania all have countries listed as either highly developed or very highly developed.
Where in the world anchorage in what country and what continent?
Anchorage is in Alaska, U.S.A The continent is North America.
What are found on all continents?
Rainfall
Seasons!
Bacteria
Land
Birds (for Antarctica, think penguins)
this is just off the top of my head, hope it helped.
Which two continents shows up partically in both the eastern and western hemispheres?
Three continents span both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres:
Europe, Africa, and Antarctica.
Which continents are in the Southern Hemisphere in ABC order?
Africa*
Antarctica
Asia*
Australia
South America*
* = partially in the Southern Hemisphere
