Share this article. Share. This graphic shows Africa is bigger than the land masses of the US, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece put together. It also lists the top 100 countries in the world in terms of biggest land size.
Definition of ground cover. 1  1 : the small plants on a forest floor except young trees. 2  2a : a planting of low plants (as ivy) that covers the ground in place of turfb : a plant adapted for use as ground cover.
Equipment grounding refers to the provision of protective grounding wires within any individual piece of equipment which is not of the type that is double insulated. Taking the US as an example: in any modern home's wiring for socket outlets there are up to three wires in play.