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ECUADOR GALAPAGOS . Any U rena. Ecuador. The Galapagos Islands consist of 13 major islands and 17 smaller islands and some 40 rocks that make up the archipelago were born from a fiery volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean The Galapagos islands are a province of Ecuador - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ECUADOR GALAPAGOS
Any Urena
ECUADOR
The Galapagos Islands consist of 13 major islands and 17 smaller islands and some
40 rocks that make up the archipelago were born from a fiery volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean
The Galapagos islands are a province of Ecuador
There are 13 main islands. Only 3 islands are popularThere are in the equator
LOCATION
The Galapagos island are over a “hotspot “ in the earth crust The islands are always moving because the tectonics plate the old island are moving far from the news ones and the sometime are creating other
Absolute locationO,90 about 600 miles west of south America Of the coast of Ecuador
GALAPAGOS ISLAND
CHARLES DARWIN
1535-The Galapagos Islands are discovered by the Bishop of Panama, Fray Tomas de Berlanga
1835–Charles Darwin arrived on HMS Beagle
He study the different animal in the island and why they live there.Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of
evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.
D I F F E R E
20 species make their home in Ecuador
PLANTS
There are 560 native species of plants in the islands,
White Mangrove
CLIMATE
The temperature, precipitation, winds , etc. , in a particular area over a long period of time
Mild temperature rarely above 80 degrees
May to December -winds blow to the southeast cold and dry conditions
January to April warmer winds, and rain
TOURS Galapagos cruises around the 17 island of Galapagos
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