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=TEAM CONTINENTS AND OCEANS!=

Hi everybody, welcome to the **__Team Continents and Oceans__**! Here we study and post topics about the continents and ocean of planet Earth. This includes articles and games on the plate tectonics, continents, seas, and depth. So kick into your high sea's gear (Or High Land Gear!) and explore the wonderful world of Earth.



(The continents include North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica.) (The oceans include the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic ocean)

Information on the Continents, and Tectonic Plates By Jasper Moh
The continents and oceans we live with today are very spectacular. Yet, even though they are just gigantic bodies of water seldom deadly, or large mounds of earth and silt piled up to create seven massive islands. Each of those continents and oceans have islands to go with. Volcanic islands like Hawai'i, or Maui from North America, or Jan Mayen of Europe all have in in common. Atolls and banks are another contribution to the continents and the ever vast ocean. Rings of coral from what used to be a barrier reef of a volcanic island, now a sunken caldera. Even if the island is habited or inhabited, it is still land. Land that forms part of a country, part of a continent, part of the major tectonic plate system of planet Earth! and yet, people still seem to ignore it. Every centimeter of sand, coral and silt matters. It matter of you live on planet Earth. From recent studies and predictions, scientists have been able to piece part of an everending puzzle; our past. And from our past, they found out our world before was absurd compared to the one we have now. Our world 250 million years ago was different. One continent. One ocean. That continent was called Pangea. That time, dinosaurs, roamed the land. No cavemen or yetis yet. By the mid Jurrasic period, Pangea was breaking up. North America and Europe released their grip and started backing away. Next came South America and Africa. Finally, Austrailia was sliced from Asia and India collided with Asia forming the Himilayas. But have you noticed, we still sort of have "one" ocean. There is a reason why this major split up occurred. There are fifteen major plates: The Eurasian plate, the Austrailian plate, the Filipino plate, the Pacific plate, the North American plate, the Antarctic plate, the Juan de Fuca plate, the Cocos plate, the Nazca plate, the Carribean plate, the South American plate, the Scotia plate, the African plate, the Arabian plate, and finally, the Indian plate. There are places where new ground is created, old ground is scrapped, and where plates build tension. Always. A ridge is where lava comes out from the ground and pushes old rock aside. The mid-Atlantic ridge is a ridge in which spreads almost entirelly across from up to down; right in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. In fact, the ridge connects with the southwest-Indian ridge and Pacific-Antarctic ridge form the longest mountain chain in the world. Because of the mid Atlantic ridge, we are currently moving an inch per year if standing still. Subduction zones are a big check for earthquakes. For that inch you move yearly, every micrometer possibly nanometer means tension. Past experience of these types of earthquakes is the Kobe(6.8//M//) and Tohoku (9.0//M//) earthquakes in Japan. Subductions also means volcanoes. If a plate moves downward, part of it melts. The melted part, or magma, dissolves the top layer of rock resulting volcanic activity. Volcanoes can vary from shield, fissure, pyrocastic, stratovolcano, or a ridge. Faults are the biggest causes of earthquakes worldwide. The most infamous one is right down here in California: the San Adreas. Faults gain tension as force is applied to both plates, until the tension get's so strong, one side releases and there's an earthquake. Try this yourself! Take both of your thumbs and press them against each other. The end result will not look like the start result. Same thing applies with plates. Sometimes, spectacular things happens. If a plate clashes, instead of creating a subducting zone or a fault, a mountain range is formed. This is how the Himalayas were formed. On these continents, there are countries. In these countries, there are states or provinces, in these provinces or states, there's counties. In those counties, there are cities. In those cities, there are the most advanced breed of monkey known: Us. We have existed on these land for ages. Evolving along our way from Homo Eructus to the present Homo Sapiens. We have yet more to learn about this exciting world; it's land, it's oceans. The world is not enough been discovered... In conclusion, the world is a splendid place. Even though it did not look as it is today 250 million years ago, it still is earth. Even though it's constantly changing, it's still earth. And though this is a small piece of rock compared to the universe; with the only intelligent being still found, it's still earth. Earth has many faults, ridges, continents and plates, and is still changing, and may never stop.

List of Longest Rivers in the World By Jasper Moh

 * 1) 1. Nile River; Location: Africa; Source: Lake Victoria; Outflow: Mediterranean Sea


 * 1) 2. Amazon River; Location: Sourh America; Source: High Andes Mountains; Outflow: South Atlantic Ocean




 * 1) 3. Yangtze River; Location: Asia; Source: Tanggula Mountain Glaciers; Outflow: Pacific Ocean
 * 1) 4. Missisippi River; Location: North America; Source: Lake Itasca; Outflow: Gulf of Mexico

List of Countries in the World By
1. Afganistan 2. Albainia 3. Algeria 4. Andorra 5. Angola 6. Antigua and Barbuda 7. Argintina 8. Armenia 9. Austrailia 10. Austria 11. Azerbaijan 12. Bahamas 13. Bahrain 14. Bangledesh 15. Barbados 16. Belarus 17. Belgium 18. Belize 19. Benin 20. Bhutan 21. Bosnia and Herzegovina 22. Botswana 23. Brazil 24. Brunei 25. Bulgaria 26. Burkina Faso 27. Burma 28. Burundi 29. Cambodia 30. Cameroon 31. Canada 32. Cape Verde 33. Central African Replublic 34. Chad 35. Chile 36. China 37. Columbia 38. Comoros 39. Demrocratic Replublic of Congo 40. Costa Rica 41. Cote d'lvoire 42. Croatia 43. Cuba 44. Cyprus 45. Czech Replublic 46. Denmark 47. Djibouti 48. Dominica 49. Dominican Replublic 50. East Timor 51. Ecuador 52. Egypt 53. El Salvador 54. Equatorial Guinea 55. Eritria 56. Estonia 57. Ethopia 58. Fuiji 59. Finland 60. France 61. Gabon 62. The Gahmbia 63. Georgia 64. Germany 65. Ghana 66. Greece 67. Grenada 68. Guatamala 69. Guinea 70. Guinea-Bissau 71. Guyana 72. Haiti 73. Honduras 74. Hungary 75. Iceland 76. India 77. Indonesia 78. Iran 79. Iraq 80. Ireland 81. Isreal 82. Italy 83. Jamaica 84. Japan 85. Jordan 86. Kazakhstan 87. Kenya 88. Kiribati 89. North Korea 90. South Korea 91. Kuwait 92. Krygyzstan 93. Laos 94. Latvia 95. Lebanon 96. Lesotho 97. Lyberia 98. Libya 99. Liechtenstein 100. Lithuania 101. Luxembourg 102. Macendona 103. Madagascar 104. Malawi 105. Maylasia 106. Maldives 107. Mali 108. Malta 109. Marshall Islands 110. Mauritania 111. Mauritius 112. Mexico 113. Federal States of Micronesia 114. Moldolva 115. Monaco 116. Mongolia 117. Montengro 118. Monzambique 119. Nambia 120. Nauru 121. Nepal 122. Netherland 123. New Zealand 124. Nicura 125. Niger 126. Nigeria 127. Norway 128. Oman 129. Pakistan 130. Palau 131. Panama 132. Paupa New Guinea 133. Paraguay 134. Peru 135. Phillipines 136. Poland 137. Portugal 138. Qatar 139. Romania 140. Russia 141. Rwanda 142. Saint Kitts and Nevis 143. Saint Lucia 144. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 145. Samoa 146. San Marino 147. Sao Tome and Principe 148. Saudi Arabia 149. Senegal 150. Serbia 151. Seychelles 152. Sierra Leone 153. Singapore 154. Slovakia 155. Slovenia 156. Solomon Islands 157. Somalia 158. South Africa 159. South Sudan 160. Spain 161. Sri Lanka 162. Sudan 163. Suriname 164. Swaziland 165. Sweden 166. Switzerland 167. Syria 168. Tajikistan 169. Tanzania 170. Thailand 171. Togo 172. Tonga 173. Trinidad and Tobago 174. Tunisia 175. Turkey 176. Turkmenistan 177. Tuvalu 178. Uganda 179. Ukraine 180. United Arab Emriates 182. United Kingdom 183. United States 184. Uruguay 185. Uzbekistan 186. Vanuatu 187. Venezuela 188. Veitnam 189. Yemen 190. Zambia 191. Zimbabwe


 * Websites to know your continents and oceans**

[] [] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean []

**Websites to know your tectonic plates**
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Websites to know your rivers
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Websites to know your countries
[] [] By: Arthur, Matthew, and Jasper