Zealandia

This week my class have been learning about Zealandia because that's are learn create share.
I enjoyed learning new things about Zealandia because I had never heard of it.
I found it tricky to write the facts on my doc because it took so long.
Zealandia

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I will write my opinion 

I will include a rhetorical question

I will introduce what I am writing about 

I will include three main ideas

I will conclude my writing with my opinion. 



Dear Mum and Dad,

Is there an eighth continent, some scientists say that there is a sunken land called Zealandia. It sank a million years ago, nearly 200 million and only some of it is above water today. Zealandia is 2.25 square kilometer it includes New Zealand and islands to the south and north all the way up to New Caledonia. It sank because when it split from the other continents the crust began to stretch and thin at the same time water began to fill the gap between Australia and Zealandia as the crust got thinner and the sea got larger the water started to cover it and then it sank.

In Zealandia there are all different types of animals like the Morepork, Little Spotted Kiwi, Kaka, Kakariki, Tui, Tuatara and much more. When it sank a lot of the animals would have died that's why there's very few left right now. The long tailed bat is one of 15 species of bats in the genus. Zealandia would have been very different then it is now.

Zealandia is the closest thing to real life Atlantis. Recently, a team of 32 scientists, from 12 different countries, embarked on a two-month expedition to study the lost continent. The idea was to study these specimens in order to identify how the continent’s geography, climate and volcanic activity has changed over the last 70 million years. So this is why I think Zealandia should be the world’s eighth continent.

From Billy