Mapping the world: locating the continents
I can understand that a map is a 2D model of the world and I know what continents and oceans are.
Mapping the world: locating the continents
I can understand that a map is a 2D model of the world and I know what continents and oceans are.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- 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.
Common misconception
Africa is country.
The continent of Africa contains 54 countries.
Keywords
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.
Equipment
Atlases, maps and globes.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
A three-dimensional map shows us what our round world looks like.
a map that shows a flat representation of our world
a large land mass on Earth: there are seven of them