Noun

continent (plural continents)

  1. (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
      The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th'head fell backeward on the continent.
  2. (obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. See the Continent.
  3. Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally redarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelfs etc.

Derived terms

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Mon Jul 26 20:17:54 2010

A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents – they are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

Plate tectonics is the geological process and study of the movement, collision and division of continents, earlier known as continental drift.

The term the Continent may also refer to mainland Europe, i.e., excluding the British Isles.

From Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License
Fri Jul 30 06:06:48 2010

What continent does Natalie hopes to visit?
Q. Natalie hopes to go someday to a continent that is nearly half the size of Africa, and a little over half the size of North America. There are no native human inhabitats on the continent. What continent does Natalie hopes to visit?
Asked by s. s - Thu Feb 4 18:49:20 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Antarctica?
Answered by MissPirate - Sat Feb 6 00:02:05 2010

How possible would it be to move Canada to a different continent?
Q. Could we blast a fault across the border, then use jet engines to move the entire continent?
Asked by Dars - Tue Nov 25 23:13:13 2008 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. We dont have the funding, precision-based firepower, or ethical support to accomplish such a feat. And how exactly do u plan 2 find jet engines strong enough to move Canada. Even if u pulled it off u would put a lot of the upper US below sea level. And you generate an earthquake of biblical proportions which in turn given the new shoreline produces montrous tsunamis and lets not forget the new supervolcano that will be created from this questionable endeavor. There u just got powned RTARD!!! LOL bitch
Answered by spar4tee - Wed Nov 26 00:19:35 2008

Where is the North American continent heading?
Q. I know the Australian continent is heading north by 1cm every year. How about North America?
Asked by Oreo - Sat Jan 16 04:01:18 2010 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Basically west, although parts of California are actually moving northwest to such a degree that eventually a lot of California will be an island off the coast of Washington. If you look on a map of active volcanoes in the "ring of fire," you're witnessing active subduction zones...areas where the continental crust is moving over the oceanic crust. Anywhere you see this, you can make an educated guess that the continent is moving towards the ocean...this is true in Washington and Oregon in North America, but less so in California. Eventually North America and Asia will collide with one another, forming a new supercontinent like Pangea and also forming a new massive mountain range. The pacific ocean will vanish entirely.
Answered by trekker02 - Sat Jan 16 04:32:12 2010

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