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Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park. By Sarah. Location. Region-Southeast State-Florida Capital-Tallahassee Longitude-80.94°W Latitude-25.31°N. Culture. There were lots of cultures that went to the Everglades American Indians were the first people to come to the Everglades

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Everglades National Park

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  1. Everglades National Park By Sarah

  2. Location • Region-Southeast • State-Florida • Capital-Tallahassee • Longitude-80.94°W • Latitude-25.31°N

  3. Culture • There were lots of cultures that went to the Everglades • American Indians were the first people to come to the Everglades • In the early 1500s Spanish explorers came to Florida looking for gold • Marjory Stoneman Douglas was one of the first people to see the need to protect the area Dry season

  4. Landforms • The Everglades is made up of one landform • Everglades is a flat land that is called grasslands • Pa-grassy hay-okee is what Indians called waters • Limestone rocks make up the ground in the Everglades

  5. Waterways • The Everglades biggest problem is loss of water • The canals also change the water flow from like okeechobee to the everglades • A canal system is a draing the water from the area • The water loss is changing the parts ecosystem River of grass

  6. Rocks and minerals • Rocks and minerals found in Everglades national park date back millon of years ago • Millon of years ago glaciers caved most of North America and everglades • The resuling spherical grains of limestone are called ooids • Shells, mud and sand hardened at the bottom of the ocean and formed limestone. Above this layer are the wetlands and grassland that make up the everglades.

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