Everglades National Park

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Everglades National Park

• By Joshua Beisner

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Location

• Region - Southeast
• State Florida
• Capital Tallahassee
• Longitude 80.7N
• Latitude 26.0W

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Landforms

• Everglades National Park has a lot of landforms
• The pine forest is the highest point in the
  Everglades
• The saw palmetto is a palm that has sharp thorns
  that can cut you if you are not careful.
• Some landforms in the everglades are marshes,
  swamps, rocklands, grasslands and wet lands

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Culture

• People lived there, explored there, and now visit
  the Everglades
• The Tequesta and Caulusa Indians were the first
  settlers in the Everglades.
• The Spanish explorers came looking for gold.
• People now visit Everglades National Park.

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Waterways

• Everglades National Park has marshes and rivers.
• Saw grass marshes are possible to walk across
  even in the wet season
• Florida Bay covers 1/3rd of the everglades.
• Water leaving lake Okeechobee in the wet season.

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Rocks and Minerals

• Everglades National Park has a lot of limestone.
  The pinelands have a hard rocky ground made of of
  limestone.
• Limestone is made up of mud, shells, and sand.
• Limestone is at the bottom of the Everglades
  River.