2.6

= = =2.6 Explain the difference between a continent and a country and give examples of each.= Can you name the countries in the world? 15 minute challenge!
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Can you name the continents of the world? online game.


 * [[image:Massachusetts_state_seal.png width="40" height="40"]]Go to Grade 7.1 for a tour of geologic time and plate tectonics animations**.

Click here for a lesson plan to help students learn the differences between countries and continents.

Travel Fair lesson plan. Have each student do a project on a different country to present to the class. The students will learn how even though some countries are in the same continent, they can be very different.


 * __Continents:__ North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica. **
 * ** A continent is a geographic land mass made up of several countries with the exception of Australia and Antarctica. **
 * ** They are defined by their boundaries and not by their people. **
 * ** A continent is much less likely to have a collective group of citizens with cultural and nationalistic ties to each other .**




 * __Country:__ The United States is a country. **
 * ** A country is a body of land under the control of a single government . **
 * ** People who live in a country are its citizens. **
 * ** Smaller than continents, countries usually have citizens who share cultural or nationalistic ties to each other. **


 * [|Member States of the United Nations]**

South Sudan is the world's newest country (July 2011).


 * South Sudan peacefully seceded from Sudan following a January 2011 referendum.