Where Are We?
Where Are We?
Continents and Oceans
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M3 Bar graph: sizes of continents
Tasks
1
Use M1 and describe the location of
continents and oceans.
2
Explain the term 'the Blue Planet'.
3
In M1 you find the sizes of the oceans.
Take your exercise book and draw a
bar graph.
M4 Pie chart: land and water on Earth
Summary
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Most of the Earth‘s surface is water. The continents cover not much
more than a quarter of the Earth's
surface.
M1 Continents and Oceans
The Earth – the 'Blue Planet'
We live on a planet of oceans. Water covers
most of the Earth‘s surface.
Although we give different names to the
four oceans – the Pacific, the Atlantic, the
Indian, and the Arctic Ocean – in fact these
four oceans are one big ocean.
M2 Water covers most of the Earth's surface
The big landmasses are the continents. There
are six: Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Most landmasses are north of the Equator, in
the Northern Hemisphere.
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What is larger: the total landmass or
the Pacific Ocean?
M5 The big landmasses are continents
Key terms:
– bar graph
– continent
– to cover
– landmass
– ocean
– pie chart
– size
– surface
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