Continents and oceans essay

This large and diverse continent is home to lot of endangered species. Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the north, the Indian Ocean to the south east, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast all along the Sinai Peninsula, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west.

Oceans are large water bodies that connect the continents of the world. Oceans are a medium to travel around the continents. The larger part of Earth is water, that is, 70 % of Earth’s Surface is covered only by water.

This is a brief chronology of some of the events in the formation of the Earth’s continents. The Earth for formed about 4.56 billion years ago. There is evidence for liquid water as early as 100 million years after its formation, implying that the surface had already cooled down sufficiently and a crust existed.

It has Pacific Ocean to its western side, Atlantic Ocean in the north and eastern side, and North America and Caribbean Sea in the North West side. With an area covering 17,840,000 square kilometres and a population of more than 3 billion, South America is the fourth largest continent in terms of size and fifth in terms of population.