Can anyone tell me why or how Europe is a continent.Atlas shows Europe part of Asia.?
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Since geography is defined by local convention and there is difficulty in setting lines in terms of "continuous", there are several variations as to which land masses qualify as continents, and which must be classified as supercontinents, microcontinents, subcontinents or islands. Seven landmasses and their associated islands are commonly reckoned as continents, but these may be consolidated. For example, North and South America are often considered a single continent, and Asia is often united with Europe. Ignoring cases where Antarctica is omitted, or where Australasia or Oceania are used in place of Australia (when considered as the largest island of the globe), there are half a dozen traditions for naming the continents.
Geologists use the term continent in a different manner than geographers. Rather than simply identifying large land masses, geologists have distinct criteria for identifying continents. Continents are portions of the Earth's crust characterized by a stable platform of Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rock (typically 1.5 to 3.8 billion years old) largely of granitic composition, called the craton, and a central "shield" where the craton is exposed at the surface.
By the geologists' definition, Europe and Asia are separate continents since they have separate, distinct ancient shield areas and a distinct newer mobile belt (the Ural Mountains) forming the mutual margin. Also, India is a geological continent, as it contains a central shield, and the geologically recent Himalaya mobile belt forms its northern margin. North America and South America are separate continents, the connecting isthmus being largely the result of volcanism from relatively recent subduction tectonics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/continents.
We have agreed that the Urals are a dividing line, which is why Europe is a continent
It's an arbitrary distinction.
europe is a continent separate from asia for cultural reasons. really the only division between the two continents are the Ural mountains.
I was told the reason Europe is considered a continent is that Europeans do not want to be considered part of Asia. Traditionally the boundary between Asia and Europe is the Ural Mountains. Its all pretty arbitrary. North and South America connect, too, why should they be considered separate continents. Africa connects to Asia at Egypt so Africa could be considered a part of Asia, too. I guess culturally Europe is different enough from Asia that calling it a separate continent might be justified. Might.
Mercy me. Russia splits us up. The UK is an Island and it's part of it. Like your point though
It is more of a difference in culture and race.
You can see the difference between a chinese man and a french guy. They have different physicial characteristics, and the cultural difference is huge.
That's because people use the word continent for "part of the world". In the basic definition, which describes landmasses, Europe isn't a continent.
coz europeans r discriminating they dont wanna be citizens beside the indian and the chinese ppl i bet
Historically Europe and Asia have always been considered different continents and after having been considered so since before recorded history began it seems a bit stange to change it. Herodotos described the difference in character and habits of Europeans and Asians in his history of the war between Peria and Greece and is very clear about how these areas are most definatly unique contenents.
This is simply tradition. India is not a sub-continent either.
Europe is not a continent, if we follow the definitions of a continent.
Europe is not a part of Asia, but from Eurasia. Asia is also a part of Eurasia.
As a European I consider my continent to be Eurasia, but my civilisation European. Eurasia can also have Indian, Chinese or arabo-muslim civilisations.
yes it is
Europe is attached to Asia, Asia is attached to Africa, North and South America are attached to each other, only Australia and Antarctica are completely separate.
The idea of continents and their names is something that developed in History. Often the names and the areas have changed in time.
Europe is a Continent because the people who made the map were Europeans, so they thought that their bit of land was important and deserved to be a continent in its own right.
Europe and Asia
are divided geographically
by the Carpathians Mountains
See any Atlas
Europe is just a political division.
Eurasia is spilt up by Ural Mountains & Caspian sea, into two continents viz, Europe & Asia. Both have climatic differences, Cultural differences, etc. These have been so apart, that at times before 1500(approx) Europeans knew somewhere in East some land of Golden Bird- INDIA exists but don't knew the routes to India. Only Vasco da Gama discovered the Routes to India. Although in ancient times, India was a seat of Power, bussiness, having long bussiness links, but following dark ages in Europe people there lost their whole knowledge,etc. So this all shows the diversity between Europe & Asia.
Other wise Both Americas are connected. Then Africa is also connected to asia. Also the berring strait once connected america to Asia. But these are neverconsidered as one continent.
Yes its one continent but Europeans countries wanted to separate themselves from the Asian countries so that what came up with Europe and Asia.
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