Continents Fun Facts
This is the coldest, driest and windiest continent. It has no permanent residents.
What is Antarctica?
This is the ocean that New York is the closest to. It makes up 20% of the world's water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This supercontinent existed 235-250 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
This is the largest of the seven continents. There are 2,300 languages spoken in this continent.
What is Asia?
This is the largest of the five oceans. It makes up roughly half of the world's water.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This theory says that the continents were on a series of plates that moved around the outer crust of the earth.
What is plate tectonics?
This is the smallest of the seven continents. It only has 14 countries in it.
What is Australia?
Africa, Asia and Australia surround this Ocean?
What is the Indian Ocean?
This scientist came up with theory of Pangaea and continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
These types of plates slide past each other and can lead to earthquakes.
What are transform plates?
This is the wealthiest and richest continent. It also has 5 of the 10 smallest countries in it.
What is Europe?
This is the smallest of the five oceans located way up North.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The hypothesis that Alfred Wegener came up with that the continents were all together once.
What is continental drift?
These types of plates come together and can lead to the formation of mountains.
What are convergent plates?
This continent has the longest mountain range in the Andres. Brazil is the largest country in this continent.
What is South America?
This ocean officially became the fifth ocean in 2000. It surrounds Antarctica and is the size of two USAs.
Southern Ocean
Heat from this part of the earth rises into the mantle and leads to the plates moving.
What is the earth's core?
These types of tectonic plates spread apart and can lead to the development of volcanos.
What are divergent plates?