• Additional data from the Indian subcontinent and Arabic, Polynesian and Latin American countries, as well as Africa will further improve these equations in the future. (ersjournals.com)
  • A continent could be a single landmass or a part of a very large landmass, as in the case of Asia or Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • Extrapolating the concept to its extreme, some geographers group the Australian continental landmass with other islands in the Pacific Ocean into one "quasi-continent" called Oceania. (wikipedia.org)
  • The criterion that each continent is a discrete landmass is commonly relaxed due to historical conventions and practical use. (wikipedia.org)
  • The northern landmass, Laurasia, would drift north and gradually split into Europe, Asia and North America. (livescience.com)
  • The geological continents correspond to seven large areas of continental crust that are found on the tectonic plates, but exclude small continental fragments such as Madagascar that are generally referred to as microcontinents. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this way, Iceland is considered a part of Europe, and Madagascar a part of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa say they've discovered evidence of a "lost continent," leftover from the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, whose breakup began some 200 million years ago. (earthsky.org)
  • According to the new results, this break-up did not involve a simple splitting of the ancient super-continent of Gondwana, but rather, a complex splintering took place with fragments of continental crust of variable sizes left adrift within the evolving Indian Ocean basin. (earthsky.org)
  • Between about 170 million and 180 million years ago, Gondwana began its own split, with Africa and South America breaking apart from the other half of Gondwana. (livescience.com)
  • The existence of Gondwana was first hypothesized in the mid-1800s by Eduard Suess, a Viennese geologist who dubbed the theoretical continent "Gondwanaland. (livescience.com)
  • Most English-speaking countries recognize seven regions as continents. (wikipedia.org)
  • It postulates that the current continents formed from the breaking up of a supercontinent (Pangaea) that formed hundreds of millions of years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the time, plate tectonics weren't understood, so Suess didn't realize that all of these continents had once been in different locations. (livescience.com)
  • Under this scheme, most of the island countries and territories in the Pacific Ocean are grouped together with the continent of Australia to form the geographical region Oceania. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this sense, the term continental Europe (sometimes referred to in Britain as "the Continent") is used to refer to mainland Europe, excluding islands such as Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, and Malta while the term continent of Australia may refer to the mainland of Australia, excluding New Guinea, Tasmania, and other nearby islands. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this sense the islands of Great Britain and Ireland are part of Europe, while Australia and the island of New Guinea together form a continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earth's major landmasses all have coasts on a single, continuous World Ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lost continent under Indian Ocean? (earthsky.org)
  • If these scientists are right, the lost continent may be located under the popular island destination of Mauritius and its remains may be scattered widely across the Indian Ocean basin. (earthsky.org)
  • Mauritia is the name given to the proposed 'lost continent,' whose remains may exist today beneath the Indian Ocean. (earthsky.org)
  • He said he believes that there are many pieces of various sizes of "undiscovered continent," collectively called Mauritia , spread over the Indian Ocean, leftover by the breakup of Gondwanaland. (earthsky.org)
  • Geologist Lewis Ashwal of Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa led the recent study on the "lost continent" beneath the Indian Ocean. (earthsky.org)
  • Bottom line: Three-billion-year old zircon minerals in 6-million-year-old trachyte rocks provide evidence for the lost continent of Mauritia, beneath the Indian Ocean. (earthsky.org)
  • This divides the entire land surface of Earth into continents or quasi-continents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earth is made up of two parts - continents, which are old, and oceans, which are 'young. (earthsky.org)
  • On the continents you find rocks that are over four billion years old, but you find nothing like that in the oceans, as this is where new rocks are formed. (earthsky.org)
  • These settlements were abandoned and completely forgotten, disappearing from history until the discovery of America by Columbus (Menzel, 273). (bethelcog.org)
  • Now Shital Mahajan, the well-known Indian skydiver has again made us gasp with her 'skydiving in a saree', making it her close to 700th jump, wearing a traditional Maharastrian Nauwari saree for this one. (unnatisilks.com)
  • A continent is any of several large geographical regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • I went to China with a 14-woman delegation of the American Women for International Understanding, a group that was formed to help contribute toward understanding and good will among nations through personal contacts with people in other countries. (botany.org)
  • Two in our group shared my special interest in museums and collections - Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson, a member of the Council and Trustees Committee for the American Association of Museums, and Alison Stilwell Cameron, daughter of the late General .Joseph W. Stilwell, an artist and teacher who was born in Peking and the only member of our group who could converse in Chinese. (botany.org)
  • Diseases (ICD) appears in the volumes, and not by continent, country or province, D & IR - description of registry and age-specific incidence as in the list of contents. (who.int)
  • At the time of the discovery of America Europeans, some tribes were on the initial level of development and were hunting and gathering fruit, other - had developed agriculture and crafts. (geomap.com.ua)
  • From the discovery of South America by Europeans , there were usually settle Spaniards and Portuguese ( european race ). (geomap.com.ua)
  • During colonization by Europeans destroyed and looted the ancient monuments Indian culture, Indian vidtisnyaly of uncomfortable and life-land turned into slaves. (geomap.com.ua)
  • So now on the mainland prevails mixed population - offspring of mixed marriages: Europeans and blacks - mulatto , Europeans and Indians - Metis , Indians and blacks - sambo . (geomap.com.ua)
  • Uniqueness America is the mixing of different peoples - Indians, Africans, Europeans, Arabs - all builders of the new continent. (geomap.com.ua)
  • Still in scholarly contention, however, is the number of Indians alive at the time of first contact with Europeans. (hnn.us)
  • Reproduced in thousands of lithographs, it depicts the post-harvest gathering of Europeans and Indians in 1621 as a momentous transition, a kind of cultural passing of the baton. (britam.org)
  • Europeans take millions of Africans for slaves without emptying the continent. (britam.org)
  • Brownscombe depicted 23 Europeans sharing the meal with five Indians. (britam.org)
  • A world map poster for kids can help children to get familiar with the geography of the different continents, countries, and oceans in the world. (mittelpunkt-horb.de)
  • The climate of the continent of South America has been closely influenced by the latitudes, attitudes and the proximity of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. (freetnbooks.com)
  • If you are learning about the oceans and the continents with the kids you are going to love our free continent worksheets . (homeschoolof1.com)
  • The students can either color in the different continents and oceans or add the names to the correct one. (homeschoolof1.com)
  • Under this scheme, most of the island countries and territories in the Pacific Ocean are grouped together with the continent of Australia to form the geographical region Oceania. (wikipedia.org)
  • Extrapolating the concept to its extreme, some geographers group the Australian continental landmass with other islands in the Pacific Ocean into one "quasi-continent" called Oceania. (wikipedia.org)
  • Oceanic islands are frequently grouped with a nearby continent to divide all the world's land into geographical regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The world's largest waterfall, Victoria Falls in Africa, is twice as tall as Niagara Falls. (homeschoolof1.com)
  • From the perspective of geology or physical geography, continent may be extended beyond the confines of continuous dry land to include the shallow, submerged adjacent area (the continental shelf) and the islands on the shelf (continental islands), as they are structurally part of the continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this sense, the term continental Europe (sometimes referred to in Britain as "the Continent") is used to refer to mainland Europe, excluding islands such as Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, and Malta while the term continent of Australia may refer to the mainland of Australia, excluding New Guinea, Tasmania, and other nearby islands. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this sense the islands of Great Britain and Ireland are part of Europe, while Australia and the island of New Guinea together form a continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this way, Iceland is considered a part of Europe, and Madagascar a part of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Description : The physical map of Europe shows the physical features of the continent, including the many mountain ranges, islands, rivers, and seas. (mittelpunkt-horb.de)
  • LA - New York) - Africa - Europe (Bike by ship to Netherlands / Amsterdam - Germany / Cologne). (berndtesch.de)
  • North America and Europe for hundreds of millions of years. (britam.org)
  • Could that have been the separation of the Western Hemisphere from Europe and Africa? (arisefromthedust.com)
  • In this post, I show that the Bible identifies Arsareth to be neither in Europe or North America. (machpelahcave.website)
  • Here we find the Isothermal line of 40 degrees mean temperature, de- pressed from 15 to 18 degrees lower, or more south- ward, than on the western coast of America or Europe. (nih.gov)
  • Earth's major landmasses all have coasts on a single, continuous World Ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Answer: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and the Antarctic Trivia Question: What is the name of the longest river in Africa? (southernknyghts.de)
  • From ancient times it was inhabited different Indian tribes (the Incas, Quechua, Aymara, etc. (geomap.com.ua)
  • Historians, however, say the more likely main course was a pottage of European wheat and Indian corn. (britam.org)
  • The result formed new nations (eg, Brazilians), on whose lives are closely intertwined Indian, European and African culture. (geomap.com.ua)
  • Over the centuries common existence of Indian, European and African nations as if caught in giant melting pot and mixed together. (geomap.com.ua)
  • In an interview early this year, the museum's founding director, W. Richard West, declared that the new institution would not shy away from such difficult subjects as the effort to eradicate American Indian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. (hnn.us)
  • By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the"worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people. (hnn.us)
  • In a widely read book, The Conquest of Paradise (1990), Kirkpatrick Sale charged the English and their American successors with pursuing a policy of extermination that had continued unabated for four centuries. (hnn.us)
  • Most English-speaking countries recognize seven regions as continents. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are Seven Continents and the Countries in each Continent. (mittelpunkt-horb.de)
  • Here is a breakdown of how many countries there are in each of these seven continents: World map with continents. (mittelpunkt-horb.de)
  • Africa: 54 countries. (mittelpunkt-horb.de)
  • Additional data from the Indian subcontinent and Arabic, Polynesian and Latin American countries, as well as Africa will further improve these equations in the future. (ersjournals.com)
  • The noticeable absence of Beijing and East African Indian families was not consistent with the patterns reported in neighbouring countries. (who.int)
  • thence across the South Atlantic Ocean to near the Cape of Good Hope, across the Indian Ocean, passing along the southern coast of Australia, through Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Ocean. (nih.gov)
  • In regard to the Continent of America, a most sin- gular fact exists, that Avhile the Temperate Climate, averaging from 40° to 60° Fahrenheit, extends along the Pacific coast from near Monterey, California, to Sitka in Russian America, a distance of about 1,600 miles, on the Atlantic coast it does not extend for only about 800 miles in a direct line from north to south. (nih.gov)
  • 1. Think of origin name of the indigenous population of America - the Indians. (geomap.com.ua)
  • By population - 320 million people - South America to yield populated continent except Australia. (geomap.com.ua)
  • As the continent was populated by representatives of all three major races of mankind, modern population of South America is motley. (geomap.com.ua)
  • However, the identity of South America stored in Indian languages, architecture, fine art, clothing, musical rhythms, traditions majority population of South America says Spanish and Portuguese. (geomap.com.ua)
  • The area of South America population is very unevenly placed. (geomap.com.ua)
  • That figure rested in turn on the work of the anthropologist Henry Dobyns, who in 1983 had estimated the aboriginal population of North America as a whole at 18 million and of the present territory of the United States at about 10 million. (hnn.us)
  • In another point of view, the population in North America, does not extend north of the line of 40° Fahrenheit to any extent. (nih.gov)
  • The ancient Indian state existed Andes. (geomap.com.ua)
  • in the Andes and stretches from north to south at 4000 km. (geomap.com.ua)
  • Visitors to the Andes still gawp at the Indian terraces that carpet the highlands - more than 2,000 square miles of them in Peru alone, according to the geographer William M. Denevan, most of them at more than 9,000 feet. (britam.org)
  • The most restricted meaning of continent is that of a continuous[non-tertiary source needed] area of land or mainland, with the coastline and any land boundaries forming the edge of the continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists believe they are about 17 thousand years ago came from North America and gradually occupied the whole mainland. (geomap.com.ua)
  • About USA: The United States of America (USA), for short America or United States (U.S.) is the third or the fourth largest country in the world. (mittelpunkt-horb.de)
  • What Buchanan, and most of the left-leaning world press seem ignorant of is the fact that Israeli blood is paying for American and Western freedom, right now, on the ground, in the real world. (blogspot.com)
  • In the real world, 45 million-plus Islamic fundamentalists want to annihilate Israel and America. (blogspot.com)
  • Here look in the columne 'continent' under Around-The-World. (berndtesch.de)
  • Looking at a time map of the world, we notice that as at 1000BC, every continent on the planet had some inhabitants resident at the least. (machpelahcave.website)
  • Buenos Ayres, and other por- tions of South America, crossed by the above favored zone, have a climate esteemed one of the healthiest in the world. (nih.gov)
  • It is often unmistakably challenging to explain to a foreign national or even to an Indian resident the functioning complexities of the hereditary Hindu caste system and the exaggerated existence of ethnicities in India. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In an extended argument entitled, 'States, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism' by Rajeev Bharghava, published by openDemocracy on March 22, the author makes an emphatic case for how 'secularism' in western democracies - particularly the United States of America and France - could positively benefit by flexibly assimilating into their secular systems alternative and unique ingredients and instruments of Indian 'religious' secularism. (opendemocracy.net)
  • It postulates that the current continents formed from the breaking up of a supercontinent (Pangaea) that formed hundreds of millions of years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • After discarding 23,572 records, mostly because they could not be combined with other ethnic or geographic groups, reference equations were derived for healthy individuals aged 3-95 yrs for Caucasians (n=57,395), African-Americans (n=3,545), and North (n=4,992) and South East Asians (n=8,255). (ersjournals.com)
  • Similarly the North-American continent in its purest sense is a multifarious medley of human ethnicities: as much effort goes into fostering the homogenous American spirit in this endless heterogeneity as it does into protecting, promoting and providing for this ethnic heterogeneity. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In this manner a backward-forward linkage of diversity networks is built up and a keen effort made to create a diverse workforce, and to install pride in the varied ethnic populace that migrates to make North America their home. (opendemocracy.net)
  • I want to argue in response that India in spite of its approach to secularism has more than a few lessons to learn from the formal institutional diversity creation practiced in North-America, the latter contributing to a significant extent to what I would defend as the more deeply-rooted ideology of 'secularism' in that country. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In his smash best-seller "Beyond Iraq: The next move," Michael D. Evans clearly defines the roles that America, Iraq and Israel play in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. (blogspot.com)
  • It is a firmly established fact that a mere 250,000 native Americans were still alive in the territory of the United States at the end of the 19th century. (hnn.us)
  • In 1928, the ethnologist James Mooney proposed a total count of 1,152,950 Indians in all tribal areas north of Mexico at the time of the European arrival. (hnn.us)
  • The Israelites who came to North Amnerica had the way cleared before them as much by ecological factors and the unintentional spread of plagues (such as the common cold) for which most of the natives had no natural resistance. (britam.org)
  • Hispanics and Africans in North-America are intensely aware and proud of their roots and histories in the larger context of American history itself. (opendemocracy.net)
  • At a micro level it is nearly mandatory for an organization to have in place diversity-promoting groups: a fine example is the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business which has in place 21 official diversity groups including a Latin American Business Group, South Asian Business Group, Korean Business Group, Gays and Lesbians Business Group, Middle-Eastern and African Business Group and many more. (opendemocracy.net)
  • His books include"The Catholic Church & Nazi Germany, Religion & Revolution, America in Vietnam," and "The Cause that Failed: Communism in American Political Life. (hnn.us)
  • The author argues that 'deep religious diversity has ensured a conceptual response not only to problems within religions but also between religions in India' and that it has encouraged the Indian state to have a passive respect for religion and people's various religious ethics. (opendemocracy.net)
  • This divides the entire land surface of Earth into continents or quasi-continents. (wikipedia.org)
  • From this perspective, the edge of the continental shelf is the true edge of the continent, as shorelines vary with changes in sea level. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1. -----86m below the sea level is the lowest part of the continent of North America. (freetnbooks.com)
  • Whether the plates are submerged or not makes no difference - when they move even slightly, huge disasters occur (witness the underwater earthquake and resulting tsunami last year in the Indian Ocean). (arisefromthedust.com)
  • Similarly, the continental United States refers to "the 49 States (including Alaska but excluding Hawaii) located on the continent of North America, and the District of Columbia. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a cultural construct, the concept of a continent may go beyond the continental shelf to include oceanic islands and continental fragments. (wikipedia.org)
  • In North America, you are an American first but you are an American because you can be a liberal, free Asian, Palestinian or Nigerian celebrating your 'Asian-ness', 'Jewish-ness' and 'African-ness' alongside your patriotism. (opendemocracy.net)
  • On September 21, the National Museum of the American Indian will open its doors. (hnn.us)
  • Mike Matteson (American born 28.4.1940 in Washington State). (berndtesch.de)