The New Childrens Encyclopedia
122 Microlife Some living things, such as elephants and oak trees, are difficult to miss if you’re standing next to one, but oth ...
123 Cytoplasm There are around 30,000 species of tick and mite, most of which are less than^1 ⁄ 32 in (1 mm) long. They can be f ...
Animals of the past The most famous prehistoric animals have got to be the dinosaurs—but they lived many hundreds of thousands o ...
LIVING WORLD Sail-back synapsids appeared. PERMIAN 290250 MYA The first dinosaurs, early mammals, turtles, and frogs appeared. ...
People naturally inhabit all continents except one: Antarctica. The Arctic is not a continent because it is not solid land—it is ...
Definition: The continents are Earth’s major landmasses. There are seven continents: North America, South America, Africa, Europ ...
128 Our world Just one-third of the Earth’s surface is land; the rest is covered by water. The land is divided into seven vast l ...
OUR WORLD 129 FAST FACTS KEY TO MAPS OWorld population 6,756 million (January 2009) OIndependent countries 193 ODependent ...
North America Stretching from the Arctic Circle to the tropics, North America is the third-largest continent. Two countries, Can ...
131 CONTINENTS OF THE WOLRD FAMOUS PLACES 0 km 0miles 1000 1000 Greenland (to Denmark) Martinique (to France) Montserrat (to UK) ...
Life in North America LANDSCAPE North America contains a huge variety of landscapes. Many areas are popular tourist destinations ...
SPORTS The most popular spectator sports in the United States are basketball, baseball, football, and ice hockey. Fans often sho ...
South America South America is the fourth- largest continent. It contains the world’s longest mountain range, biggest rain fores ...
135 CONTINENTS OF THE WOLRD Venezuelanterritorial claim Surinameseterritorial claims Palmas La Serena Santa Cruz Boa Vista Punta ...
Life in South America Dramatic landscapes, including the Andes mountains, lively cities, music, dancing, exuberant carnivals, an ...
INDUSTRY Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves and the petroleum industry accounts for 80 percent of it ...
Africa Africa is often called the “birthplace of humankind.” That’s because human beings originated from Africa several million ...
CONTINENTS OF THE WOLRD 139 Gul fof Gulf of Sirte M o za m bi q u e C h an n el R ed Se a M ed ite rran ean Sea Ade n INDIAN OCE ...
Life in Africa LANDSCAPE Africa contains a huge variety of landscapes, from snow-capped mountains to baking deserts. Northern Af ...
FARMING About 60 percent of African workers are subsistence farmers, farming their own land and growing crops such as barley, ca ...
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