continents

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1. The large parts of the surface of the Earth that rise above sea level. The seven major continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

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According to the theory of plate tectonics, continents move along piggy-back on the tectonic plates like rafts floating on water.

Continents are made from the lightest rocks in the Earth. Some of these are also the oldest known rocks on Earth, with an age of 3.5 billion years, measured by radioactive dating.

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Parkrun was founded in 2004 and now hundreds of thousands of people across 22 countries and five continents take part in free, weekly, timed five-kilometre running events each weekend in parks and other locations.

From BBC

On the demand side, traders across continents seem to see the metal as a growth asset with room to run at a time when alternative holdings—namely the U.S. dollar— look weak.

From Barron's

Filmed over seven months last year and across four continents, it charts Charles' environmentalism down the decades, alongside a history of global efforts to tackle climate change and ecological destruction.

From Barron's

In three cities on three continents, here’s how you can get out on the snow after breakfast and still be back in time for après-ski cocktails at the hotel bar.

From The Wall Street Journal

The ship would, over time, attain legendary status and prompt the widespread belief, on at least three continents, that it was, as Mr. Sancton writes, “the most valuable shipwreck in history.”

From The Wall Street Journal