Everglades National Park

By Joshua Beisner

Location

• Region - Southeast• State Florida• Capital Tallahassee• Longitude 80.7°N• Latitude 26.0°W

Landforms

• Everglades National Park has a lot of landforms

• The pine forest is the highest point in the Everglades

• The saw palmetto is a palm that has sharp thorns that can cut you if you are not careful.

• Some landforms in the everglades are marshes, swamps, rocklands, grasslands and wet lands

Culture

• People lived there, explored there, and now visit the Everglades

• The Tequesta and Caulusa Indians were the first settlers in the Everglades.

• The Spanish explorers came looking for gold.

• People now visit Everglades National Park.

Waterways

• Everglades National Park has marshes and rivers.

• Saw grass marshes are possible to walk across even in the wet season

• Florida Bay covers 1/3rd of the everglades.

• Water leaving lake Okeechobee in the wet season.

Rocks and MineralsEverglades National Park has a lot of limestone. The pinelands have a hard rocky ground made of of limestone.Limestone is made up of mud, shells, and sand.Limestone is at the bottom of the Everglades River.