SOUTH AMERICA

THE AMAZON RIVER

• The amazon river runs down South America and it's "mouth" opens towards the Atlantic Ocean.
• The countries the amazon river flows through are Brazil, Columbia, and Peru, Guyana, Columbia, Bolvia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

AMAZON RIVER

• The climate is warm, rainy, and humid around the amazon river. The vegetation includes very fertile soil.
• Also along the river there are many unique and different trees.
• The vegetation includes very fertile soil.

AMAZON RIVER

• *The length of the Amazon River 6400 kl. (4000 mi.)
• *During the wet season, the Amazon River can reach over 190 kilo. (120 mi) in width
• Anacondas lurk in the shallow waters of the Amazon Basin
• ^They are one of the largest snakes in the world and attack animals such as goats that get to close the water.

AMAZON RAINFOREST

• The Amazon rainforest is in Western South America.
• It is mainly in Brazil but it is in other South American countries like:
• Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guiana

AMAZON RAINFOREST

• The Amazon Rainforest has a tropical climate (hot and humid
• It's average temperature is 26 degrees Celsius all through the year, There aren't seasons like summer or winter.
• It has and abundant variety of plant life
• The rainforest actually has the poorest of soil.
• There is an emergent layer (tallest) main layer (in the middle) an understory (lower) and the forest floor (lowest)

AMAZON RAINFOREST

• 10% of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rainforest
• An estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year.
• More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is made here, they call it "Lungs of the Planet".

PAMPAS

• The Pampas are in South Western South America
• The pampas include Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.

PAMPAS

• The average temperature in the Pampas is 18° C.
• The climate in the pampas is humid and warm.
• the pampas include cattails, water lillies, reeds.
• There are not very many trees

PAMPAS

• Fires often happen here
• The pampas cover most of south Americas grasslands