SECTION 1

ANDES MOUNTAINS

ANDES FACTS

• Rise more than 20,000 ft
• Run through Ecuador,Peru,Bolivia,and Chile
• Source for many tributaries of the Amazon river.
• Earthquakes disturb andean glaciers sending ice and mud down the mountains.
• The andes have lots of llamas that rome the slopes

WATER AND ISLANDS

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WATER AND ISLANDS FACTS

• One of these, lake titicaca is the highest lake in the world that large ships can cross
• The large island south of the strait is tierra del fuego or land of fire.
• Chile and ecuador both control large islands in the pacific ocean.
• Ecuador's volcanic galapagos islands have wildlife not found anywhere else in the world.
• Water collects in two large lakes.

CLIMATE ZONES

CLIMATE ZONES

• Sea level only bananas and sugercane grow here.
• 3,000 ft evergreens,wheat,cattel,coffee
• 6,000 ft potatoes, wheat,corn,sheep,llamas.
• 12,000 ft shrubs,sheep,llamas
• Snow line no vegitation

AKACAMA

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• In northern chile
• About 600 miles long
• Rain fall less then 5 times a century