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The whole deck, not a sample — Continents & Oceans is 13 cards, which is no longer than the 30 we give away on every deck, so there is nothing left to charge for. 9 pages, US Letter, black and white. Grades 3–8.
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9 pages, and the backs are already right
Every front sheet is followed by its own back sheet with the rows reversed. Print double-sided, flip on the long edge, and answer number 7 is behind question number 7. Print a deck you built yourself, flip on the short edge, and every answer lands on the wrong card — which nobody finds out until sixty cards have been cut apart.
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- Print a set per student, every class, every year
13 cards. Seven continents and five oceans is the whole list — there are only twelve things to name, and the extra card is the one that stops the list being wrong: it says that the seven-continent model is a model, not a fact. Padding a twelve-item set to 100 would mean inventing questions the topic does not ask.
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Two different organisations — not a standards body and a website reprinting it — and a script refuses the card if the two disagree, so the check runs on every card rather than on the ones somebody remembered to look at. A second specialist then re-verified this deck from sources of their own, without reading our citations first. A further 5,420 cards across 30 other decks were read end to end by a subject specialist instead, and we say which is which on every deck rather than averaging the two into one flattering word.
What 13 printed cards do that a screen does not
A phone deck is one card at a time. A printed deck is a pile you can split: the ones you know, the ones you nearly know, and the ones you keep missing. That third pile is the entire study session, and it is the thing a scrolling app hides from you.
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Here are all 13 cards
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- The seven continents of the seven-continent model, largest to smallest
- Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia
- Is the seven-continent model universal?
- No — schemes of five, six and seven are all in use; one common variant merges Europe and Asia into Eurasia
- How many oceans are there?
- One global ocean, conventionally divided into five named basins: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic
- The Southern Ocean — recognised when, and by whom?
- The IHO named it in 1937, repealed that in 1953 and recognised it again by resolution in 2023; the US BGN since 1999
- Where does the Southern Ocean end?
- At 60° S — Antarctica's coast north to that parallel. Not every country accepts the limit
- The largest ocean
- The Pacific — by far the largest of the ocean basins, occupying about a third of the surface of the globe
- The smallest ocean
- The Arctic — the smallest of the five basins (area estimates differ; Britannica gives 14.09 million km²)
- The deepest known point in the ocean
- Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific
- The line that separates Europe from Asia
- A convention, not a physical break — the Urals, then south-west to the northern Caspian; rival lines exist
- The largest continent
- Asia — about 44.6 million km², more than five times the size of Australia
- The smallest continent, seven-continent model
- Australia — about 7.7 million km²; Britannica calls it the smallest continent and one of the largest countries
- Antarctica — who owns it?
- No one. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty neither denies nor supports existing claims, bars new ones, peaceful use only
- How much of Earth's surface is ocean?
- Nearly 71% — the ocean's area is more than double that of all the continents together
Questions
- How do I print them double-sided?
- Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.
- Can I edit the cards?
- Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 13 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.
- Can I print a set for every student?
- Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.
- What if I find a card that is wrong?
- Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.
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