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Cool except Europe is a sub-continent at best, not a continent.
Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria.
Honestly at this point you're just being obnoxious
Oh shit, found the Europeans. lol
So, there's 4 continents? Abya Yala, Afrasia, Australia and Antarctica
Scratch that, there's three. Australia is just an island with overgrown ego.
It's Turtle Islands all the way down, man.
Interestingly, continents are super complex and there seems to be a continent hidden underneath the Mediterranean. A good YouTube video on the subject
Look at you with facts and shit.
You get a gold star buddy!
Why so aggressive? Did someone hurt you?
Where are you from that you think that was aggressive?
Has humor completely died or do you need an excess of emojis to convey tone?
The tone was condescending yes.
The tone was humorous. You took it as condescending.
Communication is a two way street. If what you meant to convey as humorous did not land as such, but instead as condescending, maybe try reflecting why and how you can improve your communication in the future.
If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand, Iceland, and the Caribbean.
The real problem is how slowly tectonic news travels.
What do you mean? New Zealand is the big winner in that classification, what with Zealandia being one of the biggest masses of sunken continental crust on Earth.
In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand's north and south islands would be split.
But I'm not a geologist.
You're right, at least if you divide continents by being separated by surface water on all sides.
And you're a fuckin nerd lmao
It's really weird what yanks some peoples chain. lol