1. THE CONTINENTS
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2. The continents in the World
● The continents are made o solid rocks.
● But the continents only take a 29% in the Earth.
The other part are take by the oceans.
América 8%
Asia 8,5%
Europa 2%
África 6%
Oceanía 1,5%
Antartica 3%
Pacific Ocean 32%
Atlantic Ocean 16%
Indic Ocean 14%
Antartic Ocean 6%
Artic Ocean 3%
3. The formation of the Continents
● In the past, when the Earth was form there was
only a big continent. It name was Pangea.
● But the natural phenomenas change the
landscape and separated in the history.
● This form the continent that we know: Europe,
Africa, Asia, Oceania, America, and the
Antarctica.
5. The distribution of the humans
beings
● The first humans are in the southeast of Africa but they
went to the different continent.
● The humans born 1,5 - 3,5 millions years ago.
● Then they went to the west of Africa and the south of Asia
1,5 millions years ago.
● Then they travel to the south of Europe 100.000- 500.000
years ago.
● After, 100.000- 10.000 years ago thy travel to the center of
Asia, the south of America and Oceania.
● In the other parts there weren't humans because there
was an glaciation.
6. Physical Europe
● It's a small continent. It is separate from Asia by
the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus. In the
Caucasus there is the highest mountain in
Europe, the Elbrus mountain.
● Other important groups of mountains are the Alps
( the Alps have the Mount Blanc), Pyrenees and
the Scandinavian and Carpathian mountains.
● The longs rivers in Europe are the Rin river, the
Danube, Denieper, Volga and the Don.
7. Political Europe
● Europe it formed by 45 countries.
Twenty- seven European countries forms the
EU (European Union) the coin of EU is the Euro
The Headquarter of EU is in Brussels
(Belgium).
● Important monuments in Europe are the Big
Ben (London), The Al- hambra (Spain) and the
historic Vatican City.
8. Physical America
● America have the biggest jungle, the Amazon jungle,
the lung of the Earth. In this jungle there is the widest
river in the world, the Amazon river.
● The most important ridges are the Rockie Mountains
and the Andes.
● In Panama there is a canal that communicate the
Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
● The Atacama desert (Argentina- Chile).
● In California was the hottest temperature recorded.
9. Political America
This continent is separated in three parts: North America
(3 countries and the dependences), Central America (7
countries and the dependences) and South America (13
countries and the dependences). Altogether are 35
countries.
● In North America speak English and French, and in the
other parts of America speak Spanish and
Portuguese, it is Latin America.
● In America (New York) there is the
headquarters of the UN (United Nation),
the Statue of Liberty (in Liberty Island)
and important skyscrapers like the Empire State.
10. Physical Asia
● Asia is the biggest continent in the world.
● In Asia there is the highest mountain in the world the
Mount Everest with 8848 meters long. This is in the
Himalaya (Nepal) the highest mountain range.
● Also in Asia there is the Gobi desert.
● Important river in Asia there are the Yangtes river (the
3rd longest river in the world), the Ganges river ( the
sacred river of the of the Hindu culture), Eufrates,
Indo, Amur and Brahmputra.
11. Political Asia
● China in Asia is the most populous country in
the world (with1 339 724 852 inhabitant) this
produce that Asia there is the most populous
continent.
● Asia have the highest build in the world. This
build is the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates (in the Arabian Peninsula).
12. Physical Africa
● Africa is in the south of Europe.
● The most important landforms are the Sahara
desert.
● The longest river in the world are River Nile
(Africa). This river make possible live in
countries like Egypt
● The highest mountain in Africa is the
Kilimanjaro.
13. Political Africa
● The people in Africa are very poor.
● In Africa there is the poorest river in the world,
Niger.
14. Physical Oceania
● Oceania is the smallest continent in the world.
● It is formed with Australia and other smalls
islands.
● In Australia there is the Great Victoria Desert or
Great Sandy Desert.
15. Political Oceania
● In Oceania there is a famous theater of opera.
The Opera of Sidney
● In some islands of Oceania there are many
nomadic tribes that not want give up their
culture.
16. Antarctica
● In the Antarctica there are not people live in the
continent because on the earth there is ice. But
some scientist go to this continent to make
experiments.
● The South pole is in the Antarctica.
17. The North Pole
● The North pole isn't a continent because is not
formed by solid earth is only formed by the ice
on the Arctic Ocean.