CONTINENTS

BY:MAYA AND AMANI

VOCABULARY

• Physical Map-a style of map that shows naturally made landmarks Includes rivers,lakes,and mountians.

• Political Map-shows the boundaries defining nations, countries, states, provinces, and territories and the major cities that lie within them.

• Continent- Large landmass on earth.• Map-a representation of part of the earth.• Map Key-a small chart included on a map that

gives descriptions of what symbols are used.

GEOGRAPHY

• CONTINENTS- North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJpjE2UEYMM

• OCEANS-Artic, Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Southern

HISTORICAL EVENTS

• Ancient Egypt- Egypt; North Africa• Ancient Greece- Greece; Europe• Ancient Mesopotamia- Asia• Ancient Rome-Rome; Europe• Ancient India-India; Asia• Ancient China-China; Asia• Early Americas-North America, South America,

Central America, Caribbean

GENERAL INFO• North America- the continent we live on. Climate is cold in the north

warm in the south. Consist of Canada and the USA.• South America- the climate is warm. The Amazon rain forest is in

South America.• Europe- the are 47 countries. The climate is similar to North America.• Asia- the biggest continent on earth. And has the most people.• Africa- the hottest continent. The Egyptian pyramids are in this

continent.• Australia- the only island continent. Some people in Australia are

related to criminals sent from Europe long ago.• Antarctica- the coldest continent on earth. No people live on this

continent.

CULTURE

• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-different-languages.html

• Major Religions-Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism

• Example of interactions- export and import of goods, trading(stocks and bonds), and traveling, sports

PICTURES

Physical map

Political map

Stocks and bonds

Sports balls

world

religions

Map with a map key