what five continents does the Atlantic ocean?
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europe, africa, antarctica, south america, north america
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There are definitely more mountain ranges than continents.  Think of it this way, there can be several mountain ranges on each continent.  In North America alone, I can count three.
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north america, europe, asia
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Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic, and the new Southern Ocean.
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north america, south america, europe, africa, and antarctica
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5 oceans : from the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.
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To the ancients, "seven" often meant "many," and before the fifteenth century, the many seas of the world were:\n\n    * the Red Sea\n    * the Mediterranean Sea\n    * the Persian Gulf\n    * the Black Sea\n    * the Adriatic Sea\n    * the Caspian Sea\n    * the Indian Ocean \n\nToday, the world ocean is generally divided into four main oceans:\n\n    * the Arctic Ocean\n    * the Atlantic Ocean\n    * the Indian Ocean\n    * the Pacific Ocean \n\nIn addition, there are numerous smaller seas and gulfs.
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1. Atlantic ocean\n2. Pacific ocean\n3. Indian ocean\n4. Mediterranean\n5. China Sea\n6. Coral Seas (Oceania)\n7. Caribbean\n\nHowever, keep in mind that it does have a tone of antiquity thus, To the ancients, "seven" often meant "many," and before the fifteenth century, the many seas of the world were: \nthe Red Sea \nthe Mediterranean Sea \nthe Persian Gulf \nthe Black Sea \nthe Adriatic Sea \nthe Caspian Sea \nthe Indian Ocean
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North America, South America, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica\n(it does NOT touch Europe or Africa)
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False.\nHere is a list of the 34 volcanoes in the Atlantic ocean basin:\nhttp://www.volcano.si.edu/world/list.cfm\n\nYou will see that most of them are in the Azores, the Canary Islands, Ascension Island in the central Atlantic,  or the Cape Verde Islands, or are submarine. They do not really encircle the Atlantic. In the south Atlantic there is a small arc of volcanic islands known as the Sandwich Islands, and in the north Atlantic there is Iceland, which is part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. \nhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/south_america/south_sandwich_islands.html\n\n\nAnother group of volcanoes forms the chain of islands know as the West Indies. Many of these are quite active. Soufriere Hills on Montserrat is currently erupting. \nhttp://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/#soufhill\n\nHere is a place you can see maps of volcanoes by region:\nhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/volc_images.html
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Sea floor spreading is the driving force behind continental drift as it forces the crust apart.  The hot mantle rises to the surface weakening the crust until it splits and moves apart to allow the new material to form.  This rifting creates new oceanic basaltic crust rather than granitic continental crust so the continents stay roughly the same. \n\nHowever, rifting does occur within continents and eventually will split a continent, as is happening in the Red Sea today, the East African Rift being a failed offshoot of that rift system.\n\nAll this happens slowly at a rate of about 11cm a centuary and if you want to see an active spreading ridge take a trip to Iceland where the Mid Atlantic ridge is on surface.  Don't worry it is perfectly safe and you won't end up on the wrong side.
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Some are moving away from each other (i.e. their separation is increasing), such as Africa and South America. Some are moving closer together, like North America and Asia. Some places continents or pieces of continents are moving past each other, like in the Pacific Northwest, or in the Afar Triangle in Somalia. Some places are expanding, like Iceland. \n\nThere are lots of ways to measure this, but the first clue that something was going on came from looking at the shapes of coastlines. Look at the coastlines of western Africa and eastern South America. They look like they could fit together, like a puzzle. The rocks match each other on both continents too, as if the two continents were once fit together. \n\nHowever, the big clue that something was going on came from magnetic stripes on the sea floor. As new basalt forms in the middle of the Atlantic, and some other oceans, it pushes out from the central mid-ocean ridge, and cools. When it cools, it sets, taking on a magnetization aligned with the magnetic field of the earth at that moment. However, the earth's magnetic field flips every few thousand years (just like the Sun's does, every 11.5 years or so). This creates a record of magnetic stripes on the sea floor that alternate polarity. When the scientists Vine and Mathews saw this, they knew they had proved that plate tectonics existed, and that the continents were moving (sometimes away from each other, and sometimes towards each other or past each other)
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They say, when you don't have a great answer, INVENT ONE!, there are guys here who call you stupid and in their answers rely the ignorance and idiotness of their own fear. America is a whole continent, there is no North America continent, or a South American Continent, There are only 5 Continents, Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas, Antarctica's(Oceania), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Continents.\nAmerica is the whole continent, even if the name of this country has the name of America, that does not mean we own the whole continent, yes we are arrogant and lazy, and our politic is to not care what the rest of the world says. They say that we call ourselves America because that's whats they call us in Europe, in Europe they call us "Pricks".
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The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean).
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The reponse is related to plate tectonics. The earth crust is composed of a larger number of plates that float, very slowly of course, over the liquid interior. Continents therefore move relative to each other. When two plates meet, generally one moves under the other and it is here that we find mountains and volcanoes.\n\nWhat relation with oceans? Well, between some of the plates there is an upwelling of new magma, new crust. This is for instance the case in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The new crust needs room and pushes the plates on the left and right away: the Americas are moving to the west, while Europe and Africa are moving to the east. \n\nOceans (ah, at last!) are watermasses in which such upwelling of fresh crust takes place. An ocean therefore is partly in two or more different plates. On the other hand, seas are bodies of water that are on one continental plate only, or on two plates were no new crust is formed.\n\nHere is a pictures of the different continental plates:\n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Plates_tect2_en.svg
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It stands for the 5 principal continents. America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa. The five colors are also significative. At least one of the five is in every flag of the world.
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South America, most of Central America, and the Caribbean