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| Continents
The continents of earth are home to all land creatures. Which continent is the largest? The smallest? Which continent has the most people? The fewest people? Which continent is overall the coldest? The warmest? What is Pangaea and how is it related to our present-day continents? The earth's continents (along with its oceans and mountains) are formed by moving plates. The earth's crust is made up of a jigsaw puzzle of plates floating on partially molten rock in the upper mantle. Heat and currents in the molten rock push the plates around. This movement shapes the earth. Where plates collide, they push up mountains. Where plates pull apart, lava wells out, creating new land. Sample some of the following activities to learn more about continents of the world. Places To Go | People To See | Things To Do | Teacher Resources | Bibliography The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about continents. Take a virtual tour of the greatest engineering marvels of all time - The Panama Canal. Be sure to check out the live camera and the photo gallery. The Panama Canal separated two continents and made it possible for increased ocean travel and commerce. Let's Go Around the World lets you join students as they have worldwide adventures. Go to the Ozone Hole Tour and virtually explore that troublesome hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. Visit a natural wonder on each of the seven continents:
Visit the highest places on each continent. 
Ask your question about geology to one of these geologists: Ask-A-Geologist from the U.S. Geological Survey or Ask-A-Geolgist from Scientific American. Volcanologists know all about plate tectonics. Ask them anything. You can submit questions to scientists who are living and studying in Antarctica. Antarctica is the remotest and most uninhabitable area on earth. Meet some of the explorers who have braved the harsh conditions to learn about this region. Click on History for a listing. Make contact with the explorers of every continent. Find out what Balboa did that got him
decapitated. Talk to a travel agent. What countries/destinations are the most popular vacation spots? Send your questions about the Asian continent to Ask Asia. At Ask an Antarctic Expert, you can find out all about this icy continent. You can also see an archive of past questions and answers. Explorers of the World had biographies of people who explored land, ideas, sky, and art.
From the World Population Clock projection, find out how many people there are in the world right this very second. In the world, there are 4.2 babies born every second. There are 250 babies born every minute and 15,008 babies born every hour. How many people die every second? Every minute? Every hour? Are there more babies born every day than people dying every day? What was the population of the world in 1950? What was it in the year that you were born? What was it in 1998? What is the population projection for the year 2050? Since 1950, what year has shown the highest increase in population in the world?
Take a virtual walk across the Bering Strait at Crossroads of the Continents. Explore the Atlas of the World and navigate through maps of the seven continents. Scientists think that the seven continents were, at one time, one big continent called Pangaea. Using the information resources at Pioneer : Utah's Online Library, find out more about Pangaea. Find out why the Olduvai Gorge on the continent of Africa is called the "Cradle of Mankind."
Online activities are a listing of internet sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one. (You can learn how to use this WWW Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators). Lesson Plans/Webquests/Activities
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