Last week the entire school walked 1/2 mile during recess plus 10. That’s 300 miles toward our Walking Wednesdays Walk Across South America trek. Soon we will begin recording our daily walks to and from school. We will add them all together to help us walk from the Andes to the Amazon in South America.
Friday we had our first Walking Wednesday Jungle Club meeting. Here are some things we learned about South America:
South America is the fourth largest continent in the world but it only has 12 countries.
South America is home to the driest place in the world and the wettest! East of the Andes Mountains in Columbia, the Amazon Rain forest gets 463 inches of rain per year. To the west of the Andes Mountains in a desert in Chile, there has never been any recorded rainfall!
The Andes mountains are the longest mountain range in the world stretching all along the west coast of the continent.
Most South Americans live near the coast of their continent. In the middle of the rainforest there are less than 2 people per square mile!
By Natalie M.
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This is a great site, keep the great job and thanks for educating the community and making a positive difference in the environment!!!
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