GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Craton, Australia National Rugby League Team, Ural Mountains
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A large continuous land mass surrounded by water: 7 continents: europe, asia, antarctica, australia, africa, north america, south. Every continent must have its native fora and flora natural plant and annuals. International acceptance and convention is another important criteria. When continents fuse together they are called supercontinents. Geologists and human history have witnessed 4 fuses since earth"s existence. Scientist predict in 200 million years the continents will once again come together to form 1 continent. It takes 500 million years to complete wilson"s cycle. (the cyclical opening and closing of ocean basins caused by movement of the earth"s plates. ) 44 countries, 17. 6 million square miles, population of 3. 9 billion. Has largest country in the world (russia) and worlds most populist country (china: the great wall of china is the only man made structure that can be seen from space, home to tallest mountain in the world; mt.
