The information for the following story is from The New Book of Knowledge, Scholastic Canada's Atlas of the World, and the following Internet sites accessed 2/7/2003:
http://www.graphicmaps.com/webimage/countrys/na.htm
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=3800
http://www.companies-directory.com/cdir/continentsdir/asiadir/asiadirectory.htm

The World -- Its Continents and Oceans

Introduction

The world is a big planet. It is made up of large landmasses called continents which are surrounded by bodies of water -- the oceans and seas.

The seven continents that make up the earth are: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica.

Looking at the globe, you can see that less than one third of the surface of the Earth is land. The two major oceans are the Pacific and the Atlantic. The Pacific is the largest one. The Atlantic is connected to the world's third largest ocean, the Indian Ocean, by way of the Suez Canal across Egypt. The Atlantic and Indian Oceans also meet at the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.