How many continents are there?

@lemondrop said
why did you tell me to try it in French?
here's a French word for you
pussay

What does it mean in English lemon? 😛 🙂

Same thing maybe? 😉

-VR

@Trev33
I can't believe nobody submitted the obvious.

"All of them."

@the-gravedigger said
You missed out tomato ketchup.

No one needs ketchup.

@ponderable said
It si a trick question, right?

There are six, all with their own tectonic plate:

Africa
Antarctica (of course) [can't think of people not counting that one]
Ozeania (containing Australia)
Eurasia (the very concept of Europe as a continent of their own is a cultural concept, rather than a geographical one)
South America
North America

O and I learned at school ...[text shortened]... ntinent, though there were interesting discussions about the eastern limit (Ural mountain...but why)

India has its own continental plate. So does the edge of California, and Arabia. And most of Oceania is on a different plate from Australia.

Nothing good comes from mixing politics with plate tectonics.

By the way, both politically and tectonically there are at least three continent in America - Central is quite different from both North and South.

@shallow-blue said
India has its own continental plate. So does the edge of California, and Arabia. And most of Oceania is on a different plate from Australia.

Nothing good comes from mixing politics with plate tectonics.

By the way, both politically and tectonically there are at least three continent in America - Central is quite different from both North and South.

Of course we can go down to define the size of a plate the we count "continent".

And you are very right about mixing politics and geography...

@suzianne said
No one needs ketchup.

True, but it tastes so good!

-VR

If you remove all of the water, there is only one.

@mwmiller said
If you remove all of the water, there is only one.

How would that, even, be possible? Is there a plug? 🤔 😲

@great-big-stees said
How would that, even, be possible? Is there a plug? 🤔 😲

It will take some time, but 'global warming' is going to take care of it. 🙂

@mwmiller said
It will take some time, but 'global warming' is going to take care of it. 🙂

But first it (Global Warming) will increase the amount of water...right? 🤔 😉

Global Warming is confusing 🤪

@very-musty said
Global Warming is confusing 🤪

Not unlike many other "things". 😀

@great-big-stees said
But first it (Global Warming) will increase the amount of water...right? 🤔 😉

Not exactly, it will turn ice into liquid water.

But it won't be enough to cover all the earth...a few hundred meters at most 😲

@great-big-stees said
But first it (Global Warming) will increase the amount of water...right? 🤔 😉

Certainly. First all the ice will melt, raising the sea level everywhere. Then evaporation will take over. But the evaporation will also increase the cloud cover. It's going to get a little humid. So overall, it's going to be a real mess!

@mwmiller said
Certainly. First all the ice will melt, raising the sea level everywhere. Then evaporation will take over. But the evaporation will also increase the cloud cover. It's going to get a little humid. So overall, it's going to be a real mess!

We were never going to be here forever, of course man is slowly ruining the planet but the sun is always to expand before it dies, taking all of earth with it.