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Hydrosphere. Time for a Field Trip!. Biosphere. • U.S. National park. Stretching from California and Nevada located east of the Sierra Nevada. Located in South America.
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Hydrosphere Time for a Field Trip! Biosphere •U.S. National park. Stretching from California and Nevada located east of the Sierra Nevada. • Located in South America • Death Valley is the lowest point in the US, surrounded by dry high Mountains. The topography of Death Valley is a construct based off the fault movement, creating an arid climate and a diverse temperature range. In January, the temperature sits at 40 degrees F and climbs to 120 degrees F during the summer. Destinations • 4000 miles of fresh water making it the 2nd longest 1.Amazon River-(Hydrosphere) 2.Death Valley National Park- (Biosphere) • Elevation of 16,962 •3.337.628.88 acres of land of which 3.000.000 is wilderness • Responsible for 1/5th of fresh water that flows into the worlds oceans. 3.Mount Everest-(Atmosphere) •Death Valley is home to bighorn sheep, reptiles, lizards, snakes, amphibians plus more than 300 species of birds, not to mention the explosion of fauna that erupt after a rainfall. 4.Mammoth Mountain-(Lithosphere) Special guest: James from the Bilateral Hearing Loss Corporation. Death Valley National Park AmazonRiver
Lithosphere Atmosphere Welcome Back! Hope you enjoyed your trip! Formed from a series of volcano eruptions 57,000 years ago. • Located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas lava-dome complex on the SW rim of Long caldera, California Valley • Highest mountain on earth with an elevation of 29,035 feet above sea level Come Back Soon! • Atmospheric conditions are air temperature −17 °C, relative humidity 41.3%, atmospheric pressure 382.1 hPa (38.21 kPa), wind direction 262.8°, wind speed 12.8 m/s The area has 3,100 ft (940 m) of vertical, rising to an elevation of 11,053 ft (3,369 m) Mammoth has more than 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of skiable terrain, • Lack of oxygen due to thinner atmosphere at higher sea level elevation All images provided by Google.com/images. Information provided by the (National Geographic.com.) (www.nps.gov/deva/.) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...) Mount Everest Mammoth Mountains