The answer to the question, "What are continents?" is a challenging one because there is no clear-cut definition. Two great recent posts (one - Nonsense About Continents and two - How Many Continents Are There?) in the GeoCurrents blog attempt to address the silly situation that is the attempt to define the continents of the world. My favorite line from the posts about the continents is, "The main problem with the continental scheme of world division is its mixture of physical geographical criteria (continents are defined as landmasses more or less separated from each other by waterways) with human geographical criteria (Europe is separated from Asia not by the physical landscape but by historical and cultural features). Intellectual coherence calls for one basis of division or the other." Nonetheless, people seem to refuse to abide by only one division. The posts ultimately declare that we ought to simply refer to, like we often do for The World Ocean, to "The World Continent." Read the posts linked above and share your thoughts below as to what you think about the nature of continents...
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Continental divisions as they are now ‘defined’ are all about human convenience. Taken as that they serve a useful if artificial role. Removing the significance these continental divisions have had, however logically inaccurate and misleading the definitions are, ignores the important historical distinctions bound into those divisions.
We lose something by changing the definition to a more logical but mere mechanical one. The mechanical definition works well for the geosciences, but does not help geographical education for students.
Continent is simply the tectonic plates.
lol your wrong