Continents Around The World

Front 1

Europe

Back 1

Tourists travel hours to see
the famous art in Italy.
Tourists often are quite smitten
with the castles in Great Britain.
Tourists come by car and plane
to visit Norway, France, and Spain.
Tourists come by ship and train
to visit Greece and see Ukraine.
Tourists by the bunch vacation
at this old world destination.

Front 2

Asia

Back 2

I have the biggest country.
I have the Dead-est Sea.
Three-fifths of the Earth's people
live on top of me.
I touch three of the oceans,
but my true claim to fame
is I'm the biggest continent.

Front 3

Antarctica

Back 3

At the bottom of the world
lies the chilly South Pole,
in the middle of a land
penguin colonies patrol.
The stratosphere above it
has an ozone hole,
which atmospheric scientists
are trying to control.

Front 4

Africa

Back 4

I've got a lot of desert,
so I've got a lot of sand.
I've got a lot of countries,
and I've got a lot of land.
I've got a lot of pyramids;
a lot of jungles, too.
I've got a lot of lions,
and they aren't kept in a zoo!

Front 5

North America

Back 5

Greenland and Canada
are the farthest north I go.
My middle is the U.S.A.
And next comes Mexico.
Smaller countries dot the land
that stretches out below.
Then I touch South America
with my tippy toe.

Front 6

South America

Back 6

The Incas built an empire here,
but it's been gone 500 years.
Sir Frances Drake once sailed his ship
around Cape Horn at my south tip.
The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil
grew long ago and grows here still.

Front 7

Austrailia

Back 7

Toss another shrimp
on the barbie-cue!
Hop to the outback
like a kangaroo.
It's south of the equator,
so is it any wonder
this continent's called
the "land down under"?