Forget what you learned in elementary school — The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, Antarctica, Asia ...

Data from NASA satellites show a plunge in freshwater on Earth since May 2014, with 13 of the 30 most powerful droughts ...

At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa. The explanation for Pangaea's formation ushered in the modern theory of ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a handful of smaller ones.

A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the countries of the world, almost 200, including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa ...

With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates ... mechanism that broke the once-joined continents into the seven with which we are familiar.