Learn Oceans and Continents

Pacific Ocean

The largest ocean that is located between Asia and Australia and North and South America.

Atlantic Ocean

The second largest of the world's oceans. It covers approximately 20 percent of Earth's surface. It separates the "Old World" from the "New World".

Africa

The second-largest continent, after Asia; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean.

Arctic Ocean

The smallest and coldest ocean on earth located north.

Australia

The smallest continent in the world; the "island" continent

Indian Ocean

The third-largest of the world's oceans. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west, and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by the Southern Ocean or Antarctica,

Asia

the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population

South America

A continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is viewed as a Spanish and Portuguese-speaking region of the Americas.

Europe

A continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east.

Antarctica

An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle. No one owns it.

North America

Third largest continent and entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere.

Southern Ocean

This ocean, often not labled on maps, surrounds Antarctica and extends northward toward Australia