... are to the east, and to the west is the Pacific ocean. The third largest country in South America, Peru is 496,095 square miles. Its size is equal to Texas, New York, California, and Maine combined. Geographicaly, Peru is divided into three main parts; La Costa ... that was believed to control the weather Some scholars believe that this city was a ceremonial center. From herer Tiwanku spread south for five hundred miles. About a century after Tiwanku came about, the Wari empire arose. Unlike Tiwanku's temples, the Wari's ceremonial spaces were intensly private. Their ... many of thier p...

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... in flames. It is very devastating to hear of the destruction the rainforests face every day and over the years. In 1974, Brazil started a forest fire of 20.6 million square feet (3,900 square miles). The fire ragged out of control and was later marked the largest forest fire in Brazilian history. This 1974 fire is now considered small to others in the recent ... homes. In the last twenty years, four major damns have been built in Latin and South America. The most recent, The Tucurui Dam, is twelve miles long and when filled, the reservoir will destroy 800 square miles of virgin forest a...

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... , today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates of destruction, there will be only few small ... ice caps to melt and flood coastlines. A temperature increase could also turn productive farmland into desert. The second major problem is timber cutting, or logging. An estimated twenty-five th...

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... , today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates of destruction, there will be only few small ... ice caps to melt and flood coastlines. A temperature increase could also turn productive farmland into desert. The second major problem is timber cutting, or logging. An estimated twenty-five th...

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... states, "Rainforests are the finest celebration of nature ever known on the planet" (Miller). Of these ecosystems, the Amazon is the world's largest tropical rain forest. It covers approximately 2 million square miles in the Amazon River Basin of South America. The country of Brazil is home to nearly two-thirds of this tropical forest while the remainder occupies Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia ... , monkeys, parrots, sloths, and wild species of cat (Amazon 403). A 2.5-acre area may contain as many as 280 or more species of trees and hundreds more plant species making every square inch ...

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... compounds that have proven to be very important in medical studies. Although In 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40,000 square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1,000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. Commercial logging is the leading factor in rainforest destruction, both through extraction & road building. Today rainforests ... ...

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... and the mule deer would live in which is grasslands, jungles, forests, and swamps. Most male cougars usually travel through a home range of 250 square miles, while the females usually have a home range of 70 to 90 square miles. Most cougars live alone. The males spend most of the time marking their territory. The only time females don't live alone is when they have ... ...

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... on the west. The coastline is 6,435 km. Most rivers in Chile begin in or near the Andes and drain westward into the Pacific Ocean. The Loa River flows 270 miles and crosses the Atacama Desert. Other rivers in Chile include the Bío-Bío, Maipo, and Copiapo Rivers. A district of glacial mountain lakes known for their outstanding beauty lie north of ... are many kinds of birds, including rheas, condors, pelicans, gulls, and penguins. The flag has two equal horizontal bands of white and red. The blue square is the same height as the white. The blue square represents the sky. The long, ...

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... dusk and dawn by stalking or ambushing their prey. Jaguars are known to be able to survive within a circular territory of three miles in diameter. If food is scarce the jaguar will often roam over an area of 200 square miles in search of food. The jaguar is the best tree climber of the great cats and many times it will climb trees ... ...

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... existed then between Asia and Alaska. It had never appeared when the glaciers of the last ice age were at their peak, locking up in the ice millions of cubic miles of precipitation that would normally have gone into the Ocean. The absence of this water lowered the level of the Bering sea more than 300 feet, enough to turn the ... America range from the earliest human fossil found on the continent, Los Angeles man of 21,600 BC, to the great Indian metropolis of Cahokia, Illinois, which sprawled over six square miles, contained more than a hundred ceremonial mounds and may have had as 20,...

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... never met before. In which that would make the Brazilians some very friendly people (Skabeland 2). The land and climate are also very interesting . The land in Brazil is 3,286,770 square miles, which is larger than the continental United States and takes up about one-half of South America. Brazil is the fifth largest country and the sixth most populous country in ... ...

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... was estimated at one point in the 1980's that the Amazon basin was being cleared at the rate of 50 acres a minute; another estimate put the rate at 78,000 square miles per year" (53). These are astronomical numbers, to think that is the size of the state Idaho. Such deforestation has an alarming affect, "it means the loss of a multiplicity of ... ...

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... a huge, barren tract of land. 2) Intensive or modern agriculture usage that occurs on a much larger scale - growing of cash crops, cattle ranching does a bigger damage as forests are stripped several square miles at a time that. Large areas of rainforests became cattle pastures for ranchers to grow beef for the world market. In South America countries, cattle ranching for beef export to northern ... ...

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... logging activities. As consumption of wood, paper and other forest products increases so does the rate of deforestation. Eleven million acres a year are cut for commercial paper. AMcDonald=s J needs 800 square miles of trees to make the amount of paper they need for a year=s supply of packaging@ The privatization of wood harvesting companies makes it difficult for timber harvesting to be regulated ... ...

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... , with Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south. Its 3.8 million people live in a land area about the size of the state of West Virginia, a little under 20,000 square miles; but packed into such a small country live a people who are fiercely proud of their history, culture, and achievements. Just about every visitor to this country agrees that it is a very ... ...

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