Give pupils an outline map of the continent and ask them ... with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to North America when they catch it. Older children could identify ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick ... in the open sea and dredged from the seafloor north of New Zealand to map the extent of various geological formations.

The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their epic journey across North America. The other one is just beginning.

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

The Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake causes more deaths in North America than any other species — even though the Mojave rattlesnake and coral snakes’ venom are more toxic. Its venom is highly ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's east coast. Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Washington DC are ...

During the pre-season, most skiers throughout North America are stuck playing the waiting game, anxiously watching snow forecasts, and going to sleep each night thinking of colder days ahead. At ski ...