Seven 7 Continents Interesting Facts for Kids

Oh! Are you looking at the globe and trying to understand the continent? Let me guide you with this. Let me guide you about all of you. As you know the planet earth is like a huge ball with the surface made up of land and water. If you look at the globe, you would see that we can see only one side of the earth at a time. But if we can stretch the This shows the entire surface of the earth. The dark blue areas are water and rest of the area is land. The whole land area of the earth is divided into seven parts. These are called continents. These continents are the earth's continuous land masses. These continents are Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Antarctica. Let's learn an easy way to remember these names. Look at this sentence. Erin ate nine sticky apricots at April's. E is for Europe, A is for Asia, N is for North America, S is for South America. Again an A here is for Africa, another A for Australia and yet another A for Antarctica. Remember Erin ate nine sticky apricots at April's and you can remember the names of all the continents. Let's now go to each continent to know more about these. Wow! You are riding an elephant. You are in Asia. It is the biggest continent. It is about one third of all land on the planet earth and also six out of every ten people on the earth live here, which is the world's 60 percent of the population. China and India, world's most populated countries are here. Also do you know that the ten highest mountain peaks of the world are in Asia? Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world is also in Asia. Most of the world's religions like Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism originated here. Oh wow! You are wearing diamonds and you are eating a chocolate. You seem to be in Africa. Half of the world's diamonds come from Africa. Also most of the chocolate which you and I love come from here, which is around 60 percent of the total chocolate produced in the world. World's largest desert Sahara and the world's largest river Nile is also in Africa. It is the second largest continent among seven continents. It is also said that the first humans lived here. It is situated on the equator and that is why it is very hot. Oh don't be scared. These are kangaroos. These are found only in the Australian continent. In the Australian continent, there is only one country which is Australia itself. Apart from kangaroos, there are many other unique animals in this continent like koala and emu. It also has a sizable sheep population. They say there are 14 times more sheep in Australia than humans. Australia is also the largest island in the world. In Australia, 75 percent area is just flat desert. Oh my god! Save yourself. It is an anaconda, the largest snake in the world. It is found only in South America. Hello, cool down. Have some coffee. Brazil, a country in South America, is the world's largest producer of coffee. This continent has the world's largest river Amazon, the world's largest mountain range and the world's largest salt lake. It also has the world's highest volcanoes and the world's highest waterfall. Look at that penguin dancing. This tells you we've come to Antarctica. 98 percent of this continent is covered with ice. That is why it is called a white or frozen continent. It is the world's coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent. Like deserts, there is very less rain here and that is why it is also called cold desert. There are no villages or cities here. Only scientists live here for research. Wow! We are in Europe, the only continent with no desert. The world's smallest country Vatican city is here. The Pope also lives here. All the countries in Europe have a single currency named Euro. The world's largest country by area, Russia, is situated in this continent. Other important countries are Britain, France and Germany. Oh, you see the Statue of Liberty? We are in North America, home to the world's largest innovative companies like Apple, Google and Facebook. It is also known as New World as it was discovered very late. You see this owl? Its name is Elf. It is the world's smallest owl. It is found in this continent. It is the world's largest producer of maize, wheat and soybean. The world's third longest river, Mississippi, is also in North America.