The world‘s land masses are divided into 7 different regions. These geographic regions are called Continents. According to the dictionary the word continent is a noun that is used to describe any of the worlds continuous land masses. 世界地面部分分为7个不同的区域,我们把这些地理分区叫做陆地。字典里对陆地的解释是:用来描述地面上连续的区域。 In addition to the seven Continents there are 4 major oceans. Most of the earths surface is covered by these four vast oceans. 地球表面除了7大洲还有四大洋。
Many older English text books will indicate Australia as being the southern pacific continent now referred to as Oceania. The continent of Australia included Australia and many of the surrounding islands such as New Zealand and Tasmania. Oceania became widely used in Atlases after the year 2000 as a culturally sensitive and inclusive description of the region. Oceania replaced Australia to describe the southern pacific continent in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.) published in 2005, and the Scholastic Atlas of the World in 2003. 在很多旧版本的英语书中把南太平洋地区的陆地部分称为澳洲,现今称作大洋洲。澳洲包括澳大利亚以及其周围众多岛屿如新西兰和塔斯马尼亚岛。自2000起,更具概括性和文化性的大洋洲一词在地图册中广泛运用起来。2005年版的牛津英语词典和2003年版的世界学术地图都用大洋洲代替了澳洲来指南太平洋地区的陆地部分。 Introduction to Plate Tectonics 板块构造论简介The surface of the Earth’s surface is called the “crust”. The earth’s crust is the outermost layer of solid rock of a planet above the planet mantle. Even below the oceans there is a thick layer of rock which is part of the Earth’s crust. The planets “mantle” is the region between a planets outer curst and inner core. The mantle consists of hot dense molten rock. 地球表面叫做“地壳”,地壳是指位于地幔之上的由岩石组成的固体外壳,甚至海洋之下的厚厚的岩石层也是地壳的一部分。地幔位于地球外壳和内核之间,地幔是由致密的熔融岩石构成的。 Natural phenomena such as the formation of mountains, earthquakes, and tsunamis are a result of the various sections of the world‘s landmasses forming the outer curst of the earth slowly moving on top of the earths mantle which is made of molten rock. The theory that explains the movements of the land masses forming the earth’s crust is called “Plate Tectonics”. 很多现象如山脉的形成、地震和海啸都是由于地核慢慢移出地幔中的熔融岩石引发的。这一理论我们称为“板块构造论”。 Alfred Wegener was a German researcher, meteorologist, and geophysics who is known for his achievements in advancing the theory of continental drift. His research suggested that the contents were slowly moving. In his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans, which was published in 1915, he suggested that the continents were original one large supper content that he called “Urkontinent”. Alfred Wegener是一位德国研究者、气象学家以及地理学家,并以大陆漂移学说出名。他的研究表明,大陆是在慢慢得移动的。在他1915年出版的著作《大陆与海洋的形成》中提到,大陆原本是一个超级大的一个整体,他称之为“超大陆”。 Pangea is the name now used to describe the super content theorized in Wegener’s book. The word Pangea is derived from Greek where the translation for pan (πᾶν) means “entire”, and Gaia (Γαῖα) meaning “Mother Earth”. 现今,我们使用“泛大陆”一词来描述超级大陆,该词出自Wegener一书中。泛大陆一词源于希腊语,pan意为“整个”,Gaia意为“大地”。 300 Million Years Ago 三亿年前
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Activity 活动Identify the continents and oceans based on the locations provided.
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