Amazon River
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Amazon River
HydrosphereTime for a Field Trip!
1.Amazon River-(Hydrosphere)
2.Death Valley National Park- (Biosphere)
Biosphere
Death Valley National Park
•U.S. National park. Stretching from California and Nevada located east of the Sierra Nevada.
•3.337.628.88 acres of land of which 3.000.000 is wilderness
• 4000 miles of fresh water making it the 2nd longest
• Responsible for 1/5th of fresh water that flows into the worlds oceans.
• Elevation of 16,962
3.Mount Everest-(Atmosphere)
4.Mammoth Mountain-(Lithosphere)
•Death Valley is home to bighorn sheep, reptiles, lizards, snakes, amphibians plus more than 300 species of birds, not to mention the explosion of fauna that erupt after a rainfall.
Destinations
• Located in South America
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• Death Valley is the lowest point in the US, surrounded by dry high Mountains. The topography of Death Valley is a construct based off the fault movement, creating an arid climate and a diverse temperature range. In January, the temperature sits at 40 degrees F and climbs to 120 degrees F during the summer.
Atmosphere
Mount Everest
Lithosphere
Mammoth Mountains
• Highest mountain on earth with an elevation of 29,035 feet above sea level
• Lack of oxygen due to thinner atmosphere at higher sea level elevation
The area has 3,100 ft (940 m) of vertical, rising to an elevation of 11,053 ft (3,369 m)
lava-dome complex on the SW rim of Long caldera, California Valley
Mammoth has more than 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of skiable terrain,
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Formed from a series of volcano eruptions 57,000 years ago.
• Located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas
• Atmospheric conditions are air temperature −17 °C, relative humidity 41.3%, atmospheric pressure 382.1 hPa (38.21 kPa), wind direction 262.8°, wind speed 12.8 m/s
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Information provided by the (National Geographic.com.) (www.nps.gov/deva/.) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...)
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