Answer the questions-
1) What are continents?
Name some.
2) Which is the largest continent?
3) Which is the smallest continent?
4) Prime meridian passes through which continent?
5) Which is the 3rd largest continent?
6) Which continent has five great lakes?
7) Which continent is roughly circular in shape?
8) The Artic circle passes through which continent?
9) Why Europe has numerous harbours and ports?
10) Name the 3 research centres in Antarctica .
11) Write about one unique feature of Australia
12) South America is surrounded by oceans on almost all sides. Name the oceans which surrounds South America.
13) What is the importance of Isthmus of Panama?
14) What is the other name of Antarctica?
15) What is Eurasia?
Answers
Answer:
- 1. asia.2.north America. 5. europ
Answer:
1.There are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
2.Asia is the largest continent on Earth by size.
3.Australia/Oceania is the smallest continent.
4.Africa is the most centrally located of all the continents. The prime meridian (the Greenwich meridian) 0o passes through the Atlas Mountains and cuts through the coast of West Africa close to Accra, while the Equator (latitude 0 degrees) also divides the continent into 2 equal parts North and South.
5.North America is the third-largest continent in the world.
6.Great Lakes, chain of deep freshwater lakes in east-central North America comprising Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. They are one of the great natural features of the continent and of the Earth.
7.Antarctica is a roughly circular continent
8.The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, the Scandinavian Peninsula, North Asia, Northern America, and Greenland.