Chris Schirripa

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Chris Schirripa

• Geographic Features

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The Amazon Rain Forest

• The Amazon has the world's largest tropical
  rainforest.
• The Amazon River is 6,500 miles long.
• The Amazon River has 16 of the worlds water.

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The Rain Forests
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• Why the Rain forest is important to protect.
• medicinal plants,
• fruits, nuts, oils and other resources like
  rubber, chocolate and chicle.
• Plants provide us with oxygen to breath.
• If you cut down the plants more carbon dioxcide
  is in the air.

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Persian Gulf

• The Persian Gulf is 600 mile long and 34 miles
  wide.

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Sahara Desert

• The Sahara Desert was used for many reasons such
  as caravans so people could trade.
• The Sahara Desert is 3,000 miles from east to
  west.
• Desertification the transformation of arable
  ( land that you can farm on) or land to desert,
  because of a change in climate or destructive
  land use.

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Himalaya Mountains

• The Himalayas were formed one billion years ago.
• It is located in India.
• These mountains are so high it leads to
  ethnocentrism (when you think your race is the
  best).

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English Channel

• The English Channel runs between Britain and
  France.
• It kept the two countries apart from each other.
• 1785 Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries crossed the
  Channel by balloon.

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