Mapping the world: locating the continents | Geography

Starter quiz

Is this a 3D map or a 2D map?
- '3D map' ✓
What is the name of the planet we live on?
- Neptune
- Earth ✓
- Venus
- Mars
What colour is water on maps usually represented as?
- purple
- blue ✓
- green
- yellow
Land can be represented as which colours on a globe?
- blue
- green ✓
- brown ✓
- yellow ✓
- white ✓
How many blocks of land can the land on Earth be divided into?
- five
- six
- seven ✓
- eight
How many oceans are the waters on Earth divided into?
- 'five' ✓

Can you match the key word to it's correct definition?
- 3D globe
  
  ⇔
  
  A three-dimensional map shows us what our round world looks like. ✓
- 2D map
  
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  a map that shows a flat representation of our world ✓
- continent
  
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  a large land mass on Earth: there are seven of them ✓
What is the air above Earth's surface called?
- sky
- air
- atmosphere ✓
How many oceans are there on Earth?
- six
- five ✓
- four
- three
What are large blocks of land on Earth called?
- 'continents' ✓
What are the names of the seven continents?
- Asia, Africa, North Pole, Antarctica, Europe, Oceania, America
- Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Oceania, North America, South America ✓
- North America, South America, Australia, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe
Which continent is furthest south?
- Europe
- Antarctica ✓
- Oceania

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It is hard to make a 2D map of a 3D world and so maps of the world can look quite different from each other.
We call large blocks of land continents and there are seven of these on Earth.
There are seven continents: Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica.
Some continents, such as North and South America, are connected and some, such as Oceania, include lots of islands.

Africa is country.

The continent of Africa contains 54 countries.

2d - A two-dimensional (2D) object is flat - its dimensions are height (top to bottom) and width (side to side).
3d - A three-dimensional (3D) object is solid - its dimensions are height (top to bottom), width (side to side) and depth (front to back).
Continent - A continent is a large land mass on Earth and there are seven: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania.
Ocean - An ocean is a very big area of salt water between the continents.