EVS : Notes of OCEANS AND CONTINENTS

Oceans and Continents

New Words:

1) Scattered                    2) Anaconda

3) Separate                      4) Continent

5) ‘Oceanus’                    6) derived

7) enormous                             8) Southern

9) Shallowest                  10) Atlantic

11) Pacific                         12) Frozen

13) Almost                       14) throughout

15) Yangtze                      16) landforms

17) populated                 18) Sahara

19) Appalachian            20) Niagara

Q1.Fill in the blanks

1. Large water bodies on the earth are called oceans.

2. The big pieces of land on the earth are called continents.

3. Pacific ocean is the largest ocean in the world.

4. Australia is known as the Island continent.

5. Asia is the largest continent in terms of population.

6. Mt.Everest in the Himalayas is the highest peak in the world.

7. Many countries form a continent.

8. The Anaconda snake is found in the shallow water of Amazon Basin.

9. Australia is the largest island and the smallest continent of the world.

10. Antarctica is known as frozen continent.

11. Asia is a continent of diverse culture.

·       Difference between oceans and seas.

No	Oceans	Seas
1	Oceans are vast bodies of water that cover roughly 71% of the earth.	Sea is a body of salt water surrounded by land on all or most sides, or that is a part of the one of the oceans.
2	Oceans are deeper and larger than seas.	Seas being close to land and are generally much shallower than oceans.

*ANSWER THE FOLLOWING :-

1.  Name some Asian countries.

A. India, China, Iraq, Thailand, Sri-lanka, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia.

2.  Name any three deserts in Asia.

A. Arabian Desert, Gobi Desert, Thar Desert.

3.  Which is the deepest ocean in the world?

A. The Pacific ocean

4.  Name the smallest ocean in the world.

A. The Arctic ocean

5.  Which is the second largest ocean of the world?

A. The Atlantic ocean

6.  Which oceans bound the continent of Asia?

A. The Pacific ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.

*Name the following

1. Longest river of Asia            -The Yangtze

2. Largest desert of Asia           - The Gobi desert

3. Dark continent                        -Africa

 4. Largest desert of the world       - The Sahara

5. Highest peak in Africa           - The Mt. Kilimanjaro

6. Longest river of the world        - The Nile

7. Longest mountain range         -The Andes

8. World driest hot desert            - The Atacama desert

9. Second longest river in the world  - The Amazon

10. Smallest continent of the world   - Australia

11. River Thames                             -United Kingdom(U.K.)

12. Eiffel Tower                                -France

* Give reason 

1. Africa is known as Dark Continent.

Ans:- For long time the continent Africa was not known due to its difficult environment. Therefore it is known as Dark Continent.

2. Australia is known as Island continent.

Ans:- Australia is the largest island and the smallest continent of the world. As a landform it is considered as an island as it is entirely surrounded by water and not connected with any other landform.

  3. Antarctica is also called as Frozen continent.

Ans:- Antarctica is a frozen land area around the South Pole. Its lowest temperature is recorded as - 89.2 degree C

(-129.F). The ice sheet here is said to be 4 km thick.

H.W.:  On a blank world map Q-5 in Textbook, label the oceans and continents.