You might think that this is a simple enough question. There are seven continents, right? After all, this is what’s taught in the American public school system. Students in the United States lea ...

Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa ...

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans, the Equator, the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and the North and South Pole. and The Arctic Ocean. I orbit around the sun. Not that fast!

In fact, the continent is drifting at around 2.8 inches (7cm) per year which is comparable to the rate our fingernails grow.