Question

differentiate between the continent of Oceania and the continent of Antarctica

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Oceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. It includes Australia, the smallest continent in terms of total land area. Most of Australia and Oceania is under the Pacific, a vast body of water that is larger than all the Earth’s continental landmasses and islands combined. The name “Oceania” justly establishes the Pacific Ocean as the defining characteristic of the continent.

Continental islands were once attached to continents before sea level changes and tectonic activity isolated them. Tectonic activity refers to the movement and collision of different sections, or plates, of the Earth’s crust.

Australia, Zealandia, and New Guinea are continental islands. These three regions share some physical features. All three have mountain ranges or highlands—the Great Dividing Range in Australia; the North Island Volcanic Plateau and Southern Alps in New Zealand; and the New Guinea Highlands in Papua New Guinea. These highlands are fold mountains, created as tectonic plates pressed together and pushed land upward. New Zealand and Papua New Guinea also have volcanic features as a result of tectonic activity.

Answer 2

antarctica

English

(wikipedia Antarctica)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.

The wider South Polar region comprising the Antarctic Continent as well as the adjacent Antarctic and Subantarctic islands, and the Southern Ocean waters situated south of the Antarctic Convergence.

Related terms

* Antarctic * Antarctican

See also

* * * ant- * Arctic * Arctic Circle ----

oceania

English

(wikipedia Oceania)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

A geographical region composed of many islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) plus Australasia. It is located between Asia, Antarctica and the Americas.

Usage notes

Despite the fact that Oceania is technically not a continent, some people use the term when referring to the continents of the world in place of the Australian continent, mostly because several Oceanian countries are located in the Pacific Ocean and would otherwise be unable to be classified within a continent unless grouped in with Australia. Oceania contains the following countries: * Australia * East Timor (sometimes included) * Federated States of Micronesia * Fiji * Indonesia (part) * Kiribati * Marshall Islands * Nauru * New Zealand * Palau * Papua New Guinea * Samoa * Solomon Islands * Tonga * Tuvalu * Vanuatu Territories in Oceania belonging to other countries include: * Hawaii (United States) * Easter Island (Chile) * French Polynesia (France) * Bonin Islands (Japan) * Guam (United States) * Wallis and Futuna (France) * Northern Mariana Islands (United States) * New Caledonia (France)