>>5019543
Was your school a shack in the middle of a moor surrounded by sheep? Everywhere I look, others in the UK say they learned both North and South America. Leaving them as one big America doesn't even make sense logically if you're also considering Europe and Asia as separate. The isthmus of Panama is narrow and a perfect place to split the continents in two; Asia and Europe have no perfect boundary between them, especially not in the Ural/Kazakhstan area.
Also you forgot Antarctica, so maybe I'm just falling for bait.