For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

Let’s face it: kids are not smart. That’s fine; they’re not meant to be – they have a lot of growing and learning left to do, ...

It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

which skews our perceptions of how big continents and countries are compared to one another. When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's ...

The continent contains no countries ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps.