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Označení materiálu:
VY_32_INOVACE_1457_National_Parks_in_the_USA_pwp
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PowerPointová prezentace
Předmět, ročník, obor:
Anglický jazyk, 3. a 4. ročníky, Ekologie a životní prostředí, Ekonomika a podnikání
Tematická oblast:
Anglický jazyk – Anglicky mluvící země
Téma:
Spojené státy – Národní parky
Jméno a příjmení autora:
Puškarčuková Miroslava
Datum vytvoření:
5. 11. 2013 Materiál slouží především při výkladu nové látky. Žáci se dozví o amerických národních parcích a shrnou si informace o flóře a fauně v USA. V prezentaci jsou uvedena základní fakta z oblasti přírody, o zvěři a rostlinách a národních parcích v USA. Na prezentaci navazuje pracovní list, oba materiály lze využít současně jak ve výkladové, tak i opakovací vyučovací hodině.
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National Parks in The USA created by Puškarčuková Miroslava
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Protected areas in the USA National Parks in general Sequoia National Park Everglades National Park Yellowstone National Park Grand Canyon Questions Vocabulary
Protected areas in the USA • The USA is really huge country where a lot of unique and beautiful places can be found • To protect such a big treasure the country founded a lot of Natural Parks • The United States has 59 protected areas known as national parks • The first national park, Yellowstone, was signed in 1872, and then Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890 • The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska • Fourteen national parks are designated World Heritage Sites
National Parks There are a lot of natural attractions in the US • such as Yellowstone National Park with its geysers and hot springs (Wyoming) • The Grand Canyon is a spectacular canyon on the Colorado River (Arizona) • Yosemite National Park with its rocks and waterfalls (California)
National Parks • In Sequoia National Park, California, you can find some of the largest living trees on Earth- huge sequoia trees o the largest known tree, the General Sherman Tree
• Death Valley National Park, situated south-east of the Sierra Nevada mountains o is the hottest and driest of the national parks in the United States o Temperatures in the valley can range from up to 54 °C in the day in the summer to below freezing at night in the winter. o the lowest point is in Death Valley, California, at more than 200 feet below sea level
• Everglades National Park, Florida, a swampy site • a river six inches deep and 50 miles wide covers marshes and forests and is home to more than 300 species of birds and other animals
Sequoia National Park o is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, established in1890
• There is the highest point in the contiguous 48 US, Mount Whitney, 4,421 m above sea level o the park preserves a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement
• The park is famous for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, located in the Giant Forest, o The General Sherman Tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth nor the widest nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth but is the one of the largest currently living tree o height of 83.8 metres, a diameter of 7.7 metres , an estimated trunk volume of 1,487 cubic metres , and an estimated age of 2,300–2,700 years
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Foothills ecosystem • At lower elevations (520 m) o blue oak woodlands, foothills bushes, grasslands, yucca plants o Home to abundant wildlife: bobcats, foxes, ground squirrels, rattlesnakes, mule deer, mountain lions
• At higher elevations (1,700 and 2,700 m) o montane forest-dominated coniferous belt - pines, white and red fir o mighty giant sequoia trees, the most massive living single-stem trees on earth o American black bears, which sometimes break into unattended cars to eat food left by careless visitors o red-tail hawks and yellow-bellied marmots
Everglades National Park • a national park in Florida, a swampy site • it is the largest subtropical wilderness • visited on average by one million people each year o the park was established in 1934 to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades
• Everglades are a network of wetlands and forests o contains large mangrove ecosystem o is home to more than 300 species of birds, fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals, and 50 species of reptiles and other animals
• There we can find: o o o o o
tropical wading birds 36 threatened or protected species including the Florida panther the West Indian manatee the American crocodile (more than 200,000 alligators)
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Yellowstone National Park • a national park located in the U.S. state of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho (Rocky Mountains) o Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years
• Founded in 1872, the first national park in the world • is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park o It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is dominant o Grizzly bears, wolves, and free-ranging herds of bison and elk live in the park. The bison herd is the oldest and largest public bison herd in the US o Forest fires occur in the park each year; in the large forest fires of 1988, nearly one third of the park was burnt Image3
Grand Canyon Image4
• a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River (Arizona), in semi-deserted area or deserts
o It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe o The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site and made pilgrimages to it
• The Grand Canyon is 446 km long, up to 29 km wide and attains a depth of over a mile o Nearly two billion the Colorado River cut their channels
• There are mostly vascular plants - fungi, moss and lichen, willows, acacia, stream orchid, found in Grand Canyon National Park • 34 mammal species found along the Colorado River corridor, 18 are rodents and eight are bats, fish, Bighorn Sheep, California Condor • See the video
Questions • • • •
How many of National Parks are in the USA? What is the oldest National Park in the USA? Where can we observe wild American alligators? What is the name of the largest tree on the planet? Where can we find it?
• Answers o o o o
Answers
59 National Parks Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Everglades National Park, Florida General Sherman, Sequoia National Park
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Designate [ˈdezɪgˌneɪt] - prohlásit (památku) Swampy [ˈswɔːmpɪ] - bažinatý, močálový Species [ˈspiːʃɪˌiːz] of birds - druhy ptactva Range [reɪndʒ] - pohybovat se, v rozmezí Contiguous [kənˈtɪgjʊəs] - přilehlý, sousedící Trunk - kmen stromu Foothills - podhůří At higher elevations - ve vyšších nadmořských výškách Bobcat - rys červený Rattlesnake - chřestýš Marmot - svišť Hawk [hɔːk] - jestřáb Wetlands - mokřady Wading birds - brodiví ptáci Manatee - kapustňák
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ZDROJE: Pro citaci byla použita norma ISO 690 Použité obrázky: Image1: JON SULLIVAN. File:Sequoias tree forests.jpg. In: Wikimedia Commons [online]. 2013 [cit. 2014-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sequoias_tree_forests.jpg?uselang=cs Image2: File:Alligator-Everglades.jpg. In: Wikimedia Commons [online]. 2007 [cit. 2014-01-12]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alligator-Everglades.jpg Image3: File:MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS - EXTREMOPHILES.jpg. In: Wikimedia Commons [online]. 2012 [cit. 2014-01-12]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MAMMOTH_HOT_SPRINGS__EXTREMOPHILES.jpg?uselang=cs Image4: File:Gran cañon del colorado.jpg. In: Wikimedia Commons [online]. 2013 [cit. 2014-01-12]. Dostupné z: http://generator.citace.com/dok/926L2xQ3Sn5AkjGK?kontrola=1
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