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Africa
the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
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Antarctic continent
an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
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Asia
the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
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Australia
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
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Eurasia
the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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Europe
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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Gondwanaland
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
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Laurasia
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
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North America
a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
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Pangaea
(plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
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South America
a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
