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South America

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ANDES MOUTAINS

THE ANDES ARE A CHAIN OF MOUNTAINS THAT EXTEND 4300MI ALONGE THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA

LOCATION

  • Andes mendoze province argentina

COUNTRIES INCLUDED

  • Venezulea columbia
  • Ecuador peru
  • Bolivia chile
  • Argentina

CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

  • Average temp 80 degrees year Long
  • The contrast the cold,wet,almost uninhabited area of the extreme south have a average temp of 40 degrease

FACTS

  • The highest peak is aconcagua which is 6962m above sea level
  • The mountain range is believed to have resulted from tectonic Plate Process

AMAZON RAINFOREST

LOCATION

  • Forest in south america

COUNTRIES INCLUDED

  • Venezuela brazil
  • Columbia Peru
  • Ecuador Bolivia
  • Suriname French guiana

CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

  • Tropical,hot,rainy,humid
  • 80.7 dereese
  • Isn't a such thing as summer or winter its the same year round
  • A dry season is still rainy can rain 60~180 or 30~100 inches

FACTS

  • 2.124 million square miles
  • 10% of the worlds known species live in the amazon river
  • World largest rainforest
Photo by ggallice

AMAZON RIVER

LOCATION

  • River in South america

COUNTRIES INCLUDED

  • Columbia
  • Peru
  • Brazil

CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

  • Warm but not hot
  • Rainy
  • And very humid

FACTS

  • 4000 miles long
  • 2nd longest river in the world
  • Surrounds the amazon rainforest
  • Because it is so vast it is called the river sea