Проект-презентация "Амазонка" 11 класс

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  State Budget Educational Organization
  Secondary School
  of General Education №849
  
  “AMAZON RIVER”
  
  Author: Eriomina Anastasia, 11-A
  Tutor: Tokhter Olga Vladimirovna
  
  Moscow, 2013.
  

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  AMAZON RIVER
  

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  3. Climate.
  4. Feeding type.
  5. Drainage area.
  6. Length, depth.
  7. Runoff volume.
  9. Tributaries.
  10. Plant life.
  11. Wildlife.
  12. Natural resources.
  13. Ecology.
  8. Sources, mouth.
  CONTENT
  1. History. Origin of the name.
  2. Location.
  

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  The Amazon river was discovered by Fransisco de Oreliana, the first man from Europe, who crossed South America in its widest part.
  History. Origin of the name.
  

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  LOCATION
  The Amazon drains from west to east, from Iquitos in Peru to all the way across Brazil to the Atlantic.
  

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  CLIMATE
  

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  FEEDING TYPE
  The Amazon river feeds on various tributaries, also thanks to the humid climate the river gets much water from sediments. Upstream feeds mostly on snow.
  

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  DRAINAGE AREA
  7 180 000 square kilometres. To compare with Australia, which occupies 7 692 024 square kilometres .
  

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  LENGTH, DEPTH
  Length- 6992
  Amazon mouth depth - about 100 metres, and
  3 000 km upriver from the mouth it rises over 20 metres, which makes it navigable from Brazil to Peru.
  

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  The annual runoff is about 7000 sq km (about 15 % of total annual runoff of all the rivers of the world).
  TRIBUTARY VOLUME
  

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  SOURCES, MOUTH
  It is formed from the Maranon and Ucayali confluence. The length from the main source of the Maranon is 6992.
  The mouth is the Atlantic ocean.
  

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  TRIBUTARIES
  - right
  
  Ucayali
  Purus
  Madeira
  Xingo
  Tocantins
  - left
  
  Maranon
  Japura
  Rio Negro
  

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  PLANT LIFE
  Lianas
  Palm trees
  Orchids
  

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  WILD LIFE
  capybara
  the largest species of river dolphin (Inia)
  anaconda
  jaguar
  piranha
   tapir
  nutria
  tucan
  

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  NATURAL RESOURCES
  amazonite
  oil
  gas
  coal
  copper
  

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  ECOLOGY
  Rainforest is cut down
  many animal and bird spieces are endangered
  

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  THANK YOU
  FOR YOUR ATTENTION!