There are 7 continents on Earth - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. The Earth is made up of 71% water and 29% land, with oceans surrounding the continents. Asia is the largest continent and is surrounded by the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Major geographic features include Mount Everest on the Nepal/Tibet border, the Nile River flowing through several African countries, and the Panama isthmus connecting North and South America. The 4 oceans are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic.

1. Our Earth – Continents & Oceans

2. Our Planet is called Water planet
Earth
• Water occupies
71% of planet
• Land – 29%
• 3 parts of earth’s
surface have
water and 1 part
has land

3. • Huge land masses are called CONTINENTS and huge water bodies are
called OCEANS

4. There are seven continents on Earth . They are
North America , South America ,Europe , Asia ,
Africa , Australia and Antarctica.

5. • There are Oceans
on 3 sides of ASIA
– which is the
largest continent.
• North- Arctic
Ocean
• East- Pacific
Ocean
• South- Indian
Ocean

6. Some of the countries which fall in the continent
of Asia can be seen in the map shown below

7. Mount Everest highest peak in Asia
The world’s highest peak is Mount Everest it’s called
Everest in honor of Sir George Everest, its also called
Sagamatha. Its height is 29,035 ft (8,850 m) above sea
level; some people believe that it rises 4mm every year.
Mount Everest is situated on the border between
Sagamatha Zone, Nepal, Tibet and China.

8. Africa surrounded by oceans on all
sides

9. Nile River & Sahara Desert in
Africa

10. Nile river-world’s longest river is
in Africa
• Facts- It is having history of thousands of years
it flows through nine countries. The White Nile
starts from Lake Victoria, Uganda and flowing
journey through Sudan and Egypt. The Blue Nile
starts from Lake Tana, Ethiopia and flows
through Zaire, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and
Burundi. The Nile river flowing distance in east
Africa is 5,584 km and it discharges an average
of 65 million liters water in a second.

11. Mt McKinley in
Alska
Continent North
America

12. • Appalalachian Mountains in North
America
Height: 6288 feet - 1917 meters
Latitude: 44o
54' N

13. History of Panama
• South
America
Continent
• The red line
indicates the
Isthmus of
Panama
which joins
North
America &
South
America

14. Antartica – White Continent

15. Continent Europe located in Northern
Hemisphere

16. Australia is an island country

17. Huge water bodies found on earth are called oceans. The
names of four oceans are Pacific Ocean , Atlantic Ocean ,
Indian Ocean and Arctic Ocean .

18. Facts about oceans :
• Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest
ocean.
• Atlantic Ocean is the busiest ocean .
• Arctic Ocean is the smallest and frozen
ocean.

19. Time to check your G.K .
Identify the continents shown below: