Where is the Amazon? / by Sarah Fabiny ; illustrated by Daniel Colon.

By: Fabiny, Sarah [author.]Contributor(s): Colon, Daniel [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextSeries: WhoHQ | Where is (Grosset & Dunlap)Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780448488264; 9780399542336Subject(s): Rain forests -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile literature | Natural history -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile literature | Amazon River Region -- Juvenile literature | Amazon River -- Juvenile literature | Amazon River Region -- Geography -- Juvenile literature | Amazon River Region -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature | Amazon River Region -- Environmental conditions -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 981.1
Contents:
Where Is the Amazon? -- The River Changes Course -- First Settlers -- Search for the City of Gold -- More Discoveries -- The People of the Amazon -- Layers of a Rain Forest -- Incredible Creatures -- Protecting the Forest -- A Trip down the Amazon -- Timelines.
Summary: Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.
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"Foldout map inside!"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

For children.

Where Is the Amazon? -- The River Changes Course -- First Settlers -- Search for the City of Gold -- More Discoveries -- The People of the Amazon -- Layers of a Rain Forest -- Incredible Creatures -- Protecting the Forest -- A Trip down the Amazon -- Timelines.

Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.

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