NAME: H@GR: IWS A €RAZY WORLD 6eT WHEREY Fer your first map geiz, you need te: i} Outline each continent with « different coler on a mop I will give yeu; 2) Label each continent in the color yew used te evtline rt 3) Lebel the five oceans listed below 4) You will N@Y have a list of continents or eceams te look at dering the quiz¥¥IIT Seven continents: Africa Antarctica Asia Australia Europe North America South America / Five oceans: t Arctic Ocean occa Atlantic Ocean \ indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean PACHRICa ; wo | ? a Mil 7 l r — wd SS me ° X ~ S ee ~ | ee ee | igre — 3 a ii per PIIOM auL© Medouga Lit Name Date ceosraruy sxirs 3, Recognizing Continents and Oceans Complete knowledge of the foatures of the earths surface is only a few hundred years old. As recently ws the 1300s, the Atlantic Ocean was a mysterious ‘Sea of Darkness” on a flat surface. The regions of the Arctic, Pacific, and Antarctic oceans were unknown. There were also great misconceptions about the world. For example, Europeans knew of the region of the Indian Ocean but thought it was a great salt lake surrounded by land. They assumed Asia could be reached from the west only by land 1. What are the seven continents? ‘Today the earth is completely mapped and clas sified. The largest units of Earth’ Jand are called continents. Except for the division between Europe and Asie, they are generally well defined. Two con- tinents are islands, and isthmuses—narrow necks of land-—clearly separate others, The oveans are merely names given to the largest sections of the body of salt water that covers 71 percent of the lobe. Study the map below. Be Which geographical formation separates the Americas? separates Asia froin Affica? What appears to divide Asia from Europe? 4, Where is most of the earth's land mass-—north or south of the equator? 5. A trip from Austrlia to Afriea would cross which ocean? Geography Shilis 3