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Any Urena.  The Galapagos Islands consist of 13 major islands and 17 smaller islands and some  40 rocks that make up the archipelago were born from.

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1 Any Urena

2  The Galapagos Islands consist of 13 major islands and 17 smaller islands and some  40 rocks that make up the archipelago were born from a fiery volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean  The Galapagos islands are a province of Ecuador  There are 13 main islands. Only 3 islands are popular There are in the equator

3 LOCATION  The Galapagos island are over a “hotspot “ in the earth crust The islands are always moving because the tectonics plate the old island are moving far from the news ones and the sometime are creating other  Absolute location O,90 about 600 miles west of south America Of the coast of Ecuador

4 GALAPAGOS ISLAND

5 CHARLES DARWIN  1535-The Galapagos Islands are discovered by the Bishop of Panama, Fray Tomas de Berlanga  1835–Charles Darwin arrived on HMS Beagle  He study the different animal in the island and why they live there.  Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.

6 DIFFERE 20 species make their home in Ecuador

7 PLANTS There are 560 native species of plants in the islands,  White Mangrove

8 CLIMATE  The temperature, precipitation, winds, etc., in a particular area over a long period of time  Mild temperature rarely above 80 degrees  May to December -winds blow to the southeast cold and dry conditions  January to April warmer winds, and rain

9 TOURS  Galapagos cruises around the 17 island of Galapagos

10 ATTRACTIONS


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