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Marsh B

Amazon Rainforest Facts for Kids - 0 views

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Amazon Rainforest

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  • The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering over five and a half a million square kilometres (1.4 billion acres)
  • Over half of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil but it is also located in other South American countries including Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guiana.
  • 10% of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rainforest.
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  • 20% of the world’s bird species live in the Amazon rainfore
  • It is home to around 2 and a half million different insect species as well as ove
  • ng in the Amazon rainforest such as the cougar, jaguar and anaconda.
  • It is home to around 2 and a half million different insect species as well as
  • 40000 plant species
  • It is home to
  • There are also a number of dangerous species liv
    • Marsh B
      Marsh B on 03 Apr 13
       
      the cougar jaguar and anaconda
  • Marsh B on 03 Apr 13
     
    this has the anser to the how many bug species are there question!
Burke K

Great Barrier Reef Corals - 0 views

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Great Barrier Reef

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  • Above: Staghorns, Plate and Brain Coral
  • Coral spawning or reproduction is a nocturnal phenomenon that happens annually in late spring or early summer. Colloquially know as "sex on the reef", egg-engorged corals simultaneously release masses of pretty pink eggs and sperm into the sea to become free-floating larvae. While its timing is thought to be related to the water temperature and phases of the moon, it is impossible to predict exactly when it will occur.
  • Coral's most voracious natural predator is the Crown of Thorns Starfish. Outbreaks of these starfish have been known to strip reefs of nearly all living coral. Fortunately new corals generally re-establish after an outbreak.
  • Burke K on 03 Apr 13
     
    This is very good info about coral
Fallon Z

Inca Empire for Kids: Machu Picchu - 2 views

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Machu Picchu

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  • Inca Empire Machu Picchu History >> Aztec, Maya, and Inca for Kids Machu Picchu was a city of the Inca Empire. It is sometimes called the "lost city" because the Spanish never discovered the city when they conquered the Inca in the 1500s. Today the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Where is Machu Picchu? One of the most fascinating things about Machu Picchu is its location. It sits 8,000 feet above sea level atop a mountain in the Andes Mountain range in southern Peru. Three sides of the city are surrounded by cliffs that drop over 1,400 feet to the Urubamba River. At the fourth side of the city is a high mountain. When was Machu Picchu built? Archeologists believe that the city was first built at the peak of the Inca Empire around the year 1450. Construction likely continued on the site until the empire was conquered by the Spanish in the mid 1500s. Why was it built?
  • re why he built it, however. There are a number of theories as to why he had it built. One theory is that it was a vacation retreat for the king. It is in a warmer spot than the capital city of Cuzco. It also is in a beautiful location and would have been a nice getaway for the king. Another theory is that it was built as a sacred religious site. Perhaps it was a combination of both theories.
  • Machu Picchu was built as the royal estate for the ninth Inca King, Pachacuti. Archeologists aren'
  • Fallon Z on 03 Apr 13
     
    This site has really cool info of why M.P. was built.
O Leary L

Top 10 Machu Picchu Secrets -- National Geographic - 0 views

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Machu Picchu

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  • O Leary L on 04 Apr 13
     
    great birds eye view of Machu Picchu
Marsh B

Creepy Animal Pictures -- National Geographic Kids - 0 views

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Amazon Rainforest

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  • Marsh B on 04 Apr 13
     
    this has great pictures!
Burke K

BBC Nature - Great Barrier Reef wildlife - 0 views

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Great Barrier Reef

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  • Burke K on 04 Apr 13
     
    This is a very good video about The Great Barrier Reef.
Hwang J

Grand Canyon - Meeting the Natives | Nature | PBS - 0 views

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Grand Canyon

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  • But as much as humans need to be careful about themselves, they need to keep the animals’ welfare in mind as well. Even though it’s forbidden to do so in any national park, people love to feed animals. And what creature can resist a tasty treat when it’s offered? The problems arise when the wildlife comes to depend on humans for meals. “The worst-case scenario for the animals is that they lose their ability to forage and strictly seek out handouts,” Leslie says. “We had a population of deer that developed a condition called cachexia, which is literally starving to death.” She explained that fawns acquired the behavior from their parents, never learned to feed themselves, and eventually died. Tragically, the park staff was unable to rescue this group of 30 deer.
  • A bighorn sheep.
  • An animal autopsy report showed something shocking: about five pounds of trash in one deer’s stomach. “Paper, candy wrappers, plastic bags. Anything associated with food,” Leslie explains. “Every single animal had trash in its stomach.” After a few months, Leslie found that deer began to migrate back into the same area, and the park launched a public awareness campaign to show what happens when visitors ignore the rules. “We have improved the health of the mule deer, and we are using that experience to make sure it doesn’t happen with our elk and bighorn sheep in the area,” Leslie says.
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  • Another way humans are clashing with native wildlife is by seeing the Grand Canyon in a newly popular way: flying through the gully in a small airplane. Since the 1920s, tourists have marveled at the size of the canyon from a bird’s-eye view, but today more than 100,000 commercial flights per year echo engine sounds off the mile-high walls. While the 30 air tour operators provide a unique view for visitors, the noise pollution they create destroys the natural silence for those on the ground — including the wildlife. In his 1996 Earth Day speech, President Clinton stated that “the intrusion of such aircraft can interfere with wildlife (including threatened and endangered species), cultural resources and ceremonies, and visitors’ enjoyment of the parks, including the ability to experience natural sounds without interruption from mechanical noise.” Ironically, his voice was temporarily drowned out by a plane as he spoke to the crowd. In 1987, Congress passed the National Parks Overflights Act to control the noise pollution situation. Years later,
  • A downy woodpecker.
  • Congress continues to deliberate over the strictness of this law, and whether or not to make some national parks flight-free.
  • Hwang J on 04 Apr 13
     
    This tells a lot about animals that live in the grand canyon
O Leary L

Video -- The Mystery of Machu Picchu -- National Geographic - 1 views

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Machu Picchu

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  • O Leary L on 04 Apr 13
     
    Good movie about Machu Picchu.
Skenderian J

Video -- Galápagos Islands -- National Geographic - 1 views

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Galapagos Islands

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  • Skenderian J on 04 Apr 13
     
    awesome videos
Marsh B

Amazon Rainforest Plants & Animals Video - 0 views

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Amazon Rainforest

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  • Marsh B on 04 Apr 13
     
    this website haas great videos!
  • Mark McDonough on 05 Apr 13
     
    That's a helpful description, Ben. Nice job!
Mack K

Great Barrier Reef Coral - Species, Pictures and Types of Corals - 0 views

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Great Barrier Reef

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      Mack K on 04 Apr 13
       
      this is good for kids learning on the great barrier reef I should of started with this site in the first place!
  • Soft corals, on the other hand, are often more visually striking than the hard variety and are differentiated by having eight tentacles as opposed to hard corals’ six, along with their lack of a solid exoskeleton. Soft corals generally have a squishy and/or leathery texture. Soft corals are especially important as they serve as home to one of the most essential food sources in the entire Great Barrier Reef – marine algae – on which the entire ecosystem is dependent on. The smallest of fish and other members of the Great Barrier Reef’s food chain use the algae as their main form of sustenance, and they themselves serve as food for larger predators, and so on – none of which would be possible without the many kinds of soft corals that populate the reef.
  • Great Barrier Reef Coral Coral forms the backbone of the structure of the Great Barrier Reef, and with over 400 species that comprise the various sections of reef, they play a huge part in making up the visual splendour that has contributed to its worldwide fame. The vibrant colours of the Great Barrier Reef coral can be striking, with vivid reds and cool blues coexisting side by side to form a veritable underwater rainbow which has to be seen up close to be properly appreciated. The Great Barrier Reef, like most other coral reefs on earth, initially grew from a hard surface on the ocean floor and continually evolved over the course of 500,000 years to take the shape of the vibrant ecosystem that can be found in today.
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  • Hard corals (also known as stony corals) can typically be found in clear, shallow tropical waters and are the closest thing to a “construction force’ that the reef has, contributing largely to the relatively swift growth of the Great Barrier Reef as opposed to many of the world’s older major reef formations (many of which have existed for several million years.) The most common type of hard coral which can be found in the Great Barrier Reef is of the Staghorn variety, which over time form limestone casings that become an important building block in the reef’s expansion and providing more viable habitats for its many ocean-dwelling creatures to live in.
  • Types of Coral Corals are generally divided into two main groups, simply labeled “soft coral” and “hard coral” which are defined not only by their composition and texture but also by the number of tentacles that can be found on their adjoining polyps.
  • Mack K on 04 Apr 13
     
    Great information on the great barrier reef
Fallon Z

Spotlight: Machu Picchu - KIDS DISCOVER - 0 views

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Machu Picchu

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  • Near Cuzco, the capital of this great kingdom, was an extraordinary city built almost 8,000 feet above sea level on a flat ridge between two high peaks of the Andes. Surrounded by agricultural terraces, the city was small, only about five square miles. But it had more than 150 buildings ­— from palaces and temples to baths, storage rooms, and homes for a population of about 800. This was Machu Picchu.
  • Fallon Z on 04 Apr 13
     
    tells about what was in the city
O Leary L

Machu Picchu's Mysteries -- National Geographic - 0 views

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Machu Picchu

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  • Although the archaeological discovery of Machu Picchu came nearly a hundred years ago, historians are still unsure of the function of this ancient Inca citadel.The Inca had no system of writing and left no written records, and archaeologists have been left to piece together bits of evidence as to why Machu Picchu was built, what purpose it served, and why it was so quickly vacated.
  • O Leary L on 04 Apr 13
     
    good picture
Fallon Z

Machu Picchu, the Forgotten City - The Inca Empire for Kids - 0 views

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Machu Picchu

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  • Fallon Z on 04 Apr 13
     
    more about what was in the city
  • Mark McDonough on 05 Apr 13
     
    nice, specific comment, zoe!
Hacker M

Before_Machu_Picchu.jpg (1836×1756) - 0 views

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  • Hacker M on 04 Apr 13
     
    GRATE  pik on M.P.
Marsh B

Amazon Rainforest - 0 views

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Amazon Rainforest

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  • THE AMAZON BASIN: Amazing Facts and Figures The Amazon basin has the most developed rainforest of anywhere in the world. Over two-thirds of all the fresh water on earth is found with
  • covers an area of approximately 2.5 million square miles (650 million hectares) which is approximately 40% of South America. If superimposed on the United States, it would cover n
  • he Amazon basin and over 20% of the earth’s oxygen is produced there. Although exact numbers are not known, the basin may contain up to one million plant species. The Amazon basin is drained by the Amazon
  • Marsh B on 04 Apr 13
     
    this has great facts on the rain forest.
Mack K

Great Barrier Reef: Endangered Animals for kids - 0 views

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Great Barrier Reef

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  • Mack K on 04 Apr 13
     
    Interactive video put your mouse over a animal and you will see facts about it
  • Mark McDonough on 05 Apr 13
     
    Kale, you wrote a good, specific description. That's helpful for you and your group. Great job!
Mark McDonough

Nice job bookmarking and tagging your sites! - 0 views

Many of you have written good, specific descriptions of the sites that you have bookmarked. That will be helpful when you start to write your paragraphs. Nice job!

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