PRESENTATION OUTLINE
French Guiana is 3.9339° N, 53.1258° W or 3.9339 latitude, 53.1258 longitude
1.FRENCH GUIANA IS NORTH OF BRAZIL.
2.IT IS SOUTH OF NORTH AMERICA.
3.IT IS WEST OF AFRICA.
4.IT IS EAST OF SURINAME.
Kourou RIVER
- The Kourou River is polluted by mercury.
- The water is brown and muddy like the Amazon river.
- The Kourou River has different fish species.
Salvation's Islands
- The Salvation's Islands is a group of islands of volcano origins.
- It is 11 kilometers of the coast of French Guiana.
- Part off the salvation islands was a prison
Approuague
- The Approuague is a major river in French Guyana
- It runs north from the Tumuk Humak Mountains
- The Approuague bridge is 2 kilometers.
Guiana Space Centre
- It is near the equator so less energy is used to maneuver a spacecraft into an equatorial, geostationary orbit.
- They build spaceships that sends food to the International Space Station.
- The ocean is close to the space station so launch failures land in the ocean.
University of French Guiana
- There was a conflict over if the school should donate money to West Indian students
- The university is located in Cayenne, French Guiana
- “The new University of French Guiana was created by decre”
MUSEO DEPARTAMENTAL ALEXANDRE-FRANCONIE
- Museo departamental Alexandre-Franconie was created on September 18th 1901.
- The museum includes some of the natural and historic history of French Guiana
- The stuff there have been there for about 110 years
French Guiana is divided into four regions Cayenne, Kourou, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, and Saint-Georges.
The Arawak Indians and Carib were early inhabitants of French Guiana. Christopher Columbus spotted French Guiana in 1498. The first French settlers were in the seventeenth century.
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
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- Depend: People depend on the fish in their rivers for food
- Adapt: They adapt by fishing and building bridges over rivers
- Modify: They modified a forest and made part of it into a zoo.