LESSON 3. RELIEF AND CONTINENTAL WATERS

In this lesson, we are going to study the continets on Earth. Its relief and its rivers, lakes and seas.
There are six continents: Africa, America, Antartica, Asia, Europe and Oceania (or Australia).
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ASIA

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Asia is the biggest continent on the Earth

Himalayas are the highest range in the world
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We can find there Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth (8.848 metres).
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men who climbed this mountain in 1953



AMERICA

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America is divided into North America and South America
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AFRICA
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We can find the longest river in the world in this continent: the Nile River.
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The Nile river and its delta seen from the space.

OCEANIA (OR AUSTRALIA)
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This continent is formed by more tan a thousand of islands. The biggest one is Australia

EUROPE
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Europe is the continent where we live. We will study it in the next lesson.