Galapagos+Islands

Wikispaces Producers:
• Kiara DeVore* •Breage Pleis •Victoria Dailey •Kirsten Bautista •Jahnobi Martin

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Seven Wonders of the Underwater World

 

Interesting Information:  • The island’s wildlife is it’s most important feature.

• There was no true founder of the Galapagos Islands. It was created by surrounding volcanoes, which also created the Philippine Islands, and Mount St. Helens. Basalt has given the Galapagos Islands its official dark gray color, also containing huge volcanic peaks. .

•The Galapagos Islands are generally formed by nineteen other islands, 42 islets, and interesting rocks. (officially 61 islands and islets.)

<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px;">•Isabela, the largest island in the Galapagos, covers <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px;">a total area of 4590 kilometers sq.

<span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px;">• The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters <span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px;">form an Ecuadorian province. One extremely important <span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px;">language spoken on the islands is Spanish. The islands' <span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px;">population is approximately 23,000 people per kilometer sq.

<span style="color: #690ecd; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">• The Galapagos Islands contain two different currents. <span style="color: #690ecd; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">The Cold Humboldt Current and the Warm Panama Current.

<span style="color: #ff7b00; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">• It has an amazing selection of animal species. This is <span style="color: #ff7b00; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">usually polar and tropical species.

<span style="color: #127fce; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">• The Galapagos Islands are known for their unique variety <span style="color: #127fce; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">of wildlife, and this is why scientists started the islands’ <span style="color: #127fce; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">name as the “Laboratory of Evolution”.

<span style="color: #127fce; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">(A majority of the species can form a evolutionary change <span style="color: #127fce; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">in its life, in such a restricted area.)

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal;">•The islands are considered commonly new, and combined <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal;">with the Archipelagos of Hawaii and Japan, it is one of the <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal;">most active volcanic sites on Earth.

<span style="color: #12128c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal;">•The isolation of the islands are remaining undisturbed for <span style="color: #12128c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal;">millions of years to come. This has resulted to the evolution <span style="color: #12128c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal;">of unique species, found only on the archipelago

<span style="color: #5ca52c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">•The incredible beauty of the Galapagos Archipelago was <span style="color: #5ca52c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">declared Biosphere Reserve, World Heritage, and Marine <span style="color: #5ca52c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">Reserve. Now it is considered one of the top seven sites in <span style="color: #5ca52c; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 32px; line-height: 115%;">the world for diving.







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