Most of South America lies within the tropics ... Give pupils an outline map of the continent and ask them to draw and write features inside that they think they might find there.

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The Pacific Ocean is to the west of South America and the Atlantic Ocean is to the north and east. The continent contains twelve ...

From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America ... the very map of the world we thought ...

Africa, South America, and Antarctica began ... was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent.