How Does Every Continent?

Every continent is like a big piece of a giant puzzle that covers the whole Earth.

Continents are like huge land areas, think of them as really big islands, but not floating in the ocean, just sitting on the Earth’s surface. The Earth is made up of plates, which are like giant pieces of a cake that move slowly over time. When these plates move, they bump into each other or pull apart, and this movement causes continents to drift, kind of like when you slide your feet across the floor while sitting on a chair.

Imagine you're playing with a set of wooden blocks. If you push one block, it moves, and sometimes it makes others move too. The Earth's plates are just like these blocks. When they shift, because of heat from deep inside the Earth, continents can slowly move to new places over millions of years.

It’s like if you had a big cookie, and you broke it into pieces. Each piece is a continent, and each one has its own special shape and place on the Earth's surface. Over time, these pieces have moved around, just like your blocks, which is why we now have different continents in different parts of the world.