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The largest one is the Great Divide which goes goes from Alaska down the Rocky Mountains through North America, Central America and along the Andes Mountains to the tip of South America. Africa has many drainage systems including the Great Rift Valley, The Nile Congo Watershed, Zambezi River, and Limpopo systems. Asia has many drainage systems including the Central Asian Internal Drainage System, the Volga Caspian Sea System, and the Sistan Basin of Aran and Afghanistan. Australia has several including the Murray Darling System, the Brisbane system, Northern Australia system.
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∙ 11y agoyes. every single other continent except antartica has continental divide.
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What divides the global oceans?
continents
The hypothesis that continents have moved is called continental?
The hypothesis that continents have moved is called continental drift.
What is it called when continents break apart?
Continental Drift
What is a continental shift?
Continental drift is the idea that Wegener created, that all the continents were once a single landmass which he called Pangaea, and they have since drifted apart.
What does the pulling a part of continental plates create?
The moving of Continents.
What divides the all the continents?
tectonic plates under the ocean
What is continental drift in own words?
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other.
What divides the global oceans?
continents
What feature in the Atlantic Ocean has the same shape as the continents surrounding it?
The Continental Slope. It's more correct to compare it to the coasts, for the Continental Shelf and Slope are part of the continents - they are simply submerged by present sea-level. In other words, the Continental Slope outlines are the outlines of the continents.
The theory that continents move apart from each other?
Continents are not tecnically moving 'away' from each other, they are just moving. This is due to the sub continent plates and the volcanic activity in the ocean. As new volcanic matter from the earths core comes to the surface it pushes continental plates apart.
What is the theory for the cause of continents moving apart from each other?
Continental drift.
what is the force that caused the movement of continents from one supercontinent to the other?
Continental drift
What is the defitition of continental crust?
The continental crust is the basis of the continents. It is the layer of rock, which is mostly granitic, that forms the continents and continental shelves.
What divides a continent?
continental drift
The hypothesis that continents have moved is called continental?
The hypothesis that continents have moved is called continental drift.
Which mountain range divides two continents?
The Himalayas
What theory that continents move apart form each other?
The action of continents drifting apart from each other is called, "Continental Drift". It is no longer a theory, as it has been proven to be so. Of course, as certain continents move apart from each other, they also are moving closer to other continents.
