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V. INDIVIDUAL WORK

Task 1. Complete the text with the words from the box and

translate it into Ukrainian

earthquakes; Europe; caused by; a huge sphere; the land;

the core; flat; six; oceans

Main continents and other parts of the Earth

On our planet, __________is separated into large landmasses
known as continents. There are _____ continents on the Earth: Africa,
America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Antarctica. The continents have

different kinds of relief, including plains, plateaus, mountain ranges,
valleys and basins.
______ is a small continent. Europe is a peninsula of the larger

Eurasian continent and it is surrounded by different oceans and seas.
There are three main features of relief in Europe: the Great European
Plain, the plateaus and old mountain ranges and the young mountain
ranges.

The continents are surrounded by _____ that produce beaches,
cliffs, gulfs, peninsulas and capes. Groups of islands in the middle of
the sea are known as archipelagos.

The Earth is ______ which can be divided into three sections: the
core, the mantle and the crust.

• The core is the deepest part and makes up 15% of the Earth’s
volume.

• The mantle surrounds ______ and makes up 84% of the Earth's
volume.

The crust is the outer layer and makes up 1% of the Earth's
volume.

• The Earth’s crust is thicker in some places, forming the
continents. It is thinner in some places, and lies under the oceans.

The Earth’s crust is not______. It forms the mountains, valleys,
basins and plains that make up the Earth's relief. The Earth's relief is
always changing because of the action of internal and external

forces.
External changes to relief are ______the action of water, wind or
humans. There is the theory that 200 million years ago there was a
single continent called Pangea on the Earth which moved and broke

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