/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4348945]

how do USA people refer to the continent "America" in scholar papers?

trolling ain't intended

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.4348952]

north america

[Anonymous No.4348951]

>>4348945
There is no continent of "America". There is just North America and South America. If one wants to refer to both then one says "the Americas".

[Anonymous No.4348953]

There is a continent called "America" What continent is this?

[Anonymous No.4348960]

>>4348951
are you serious i'm trying to learn this, not trolling

[Anonymous No.4348961]

>>4348951
So S. American and N. America are separate land masses?

[Anonymous No.4348965]

>>4348960
Just North America. As in the North American Plate or North American Flood Basalts

[Anonymous No.4348968]

North America

But nobody ever writes essays about Canada, America, Mexico, and any of the itty bitty countries below Mexico, because other countries don't matter.

[Anonymous No.4348981]

>>4348968
that is incorrect:
http://capita.wustl.edu/Central-America/reports/JGR/SmokeImpactJGRDoc.htm

>>4348945
Also, just curious why?

[Anonymous No.4348987]

>>4348961
>Panama Canal

[Anonymous No.4348989]

>Be in first grade
>"Friend" tells me there's 5 americas
>North America, South America, Central America, Latin America, and USA
I could never tell if he was serious or not.

Buuuttt... this was the same kid who wouldn't believe me when I said 10x10=100 and not 20, so there's a good chance.

[Anonymous No.4348996]

>>4348945
I wrote a huge thing about how stupid you are. refreshed and deleted it(irony.) here's the summary:
panama canal seperates north and south america, not one land mass.

google it, 7 continents exist in the world, two of which are north and south america

United States Citizens refer to north america as north america, and south america as south america. the two collectively are usually referred to as "the Americas."

"American" is a fine term for US citizens, as it is short for United States of AMERICA(n)

ALMOST FORGOT, central america is its own subcontinent, a small part of north america. THE MOAR YOU KNOW.

[Anonymous No.4349002]

We call them North America and South America.
Here's why:
they have less connecting them than Asia and Africa do.
And waaaayyy less connecting them than Europe and Asia.
Also, they are on separate tectonic plates.

Seriously it's beyond me why you people refer to them as a single continent.

[Anonymous No.4349011]

>>4348996
and why do frivolous naming conventions matter again? Fretting over them is stupid.

[Anonymous No.4349023]

>>4348996
The central American region is separated only due to culture and not a major hindering geographical feature. It also depends on whether or not Mexico is included. I've seen it done either way in books because Mexico has a stronger economy or is a Latin speaking nation.

[Anonymous No.4349027]

>>4349011
because eurofags and latin american fags get all butthurt that we call ourselves "Americans" and refer to the two continents as two instead of one.

[Anonymous No.4349028]

>>4349023
that's why I said SUBcontinent

[Anonymous No.4349033]

>>4348961
They are different CONTINENTS.

[Anonymous No.4349039]

>>4349028
>>4349027
Who gives a shit. No seriously. In 100 million years or so the continents we know today will be gone.

[Anonymous No.4349048]

North America
South America
Africa
Europe
Asia
Australia
Antarctica

7 continents.

Calling North America the same continent is fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.4349051]

>>4349048
>Australia
I think you mean Oceania.

[Anonymous No.4349057]

>>4349051
>oceania
>continent

[Anonymous No.4349064]

"The six-continent combined-America model is sometimes taught in Latin America and in some parts of Europe including Greece (equivalent 5 inhabited continents model (i.e. excluding Antarctica) still also found in texts), Portugal and Spain."