Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River: Educational Version
    14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River: Educational Version
    14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River: Educational Version
    Ebook52 pages23 minutes

    14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River: Educational Version

    By Caitlind L. Alexander

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The Amazon River is the largest river in the world. It winds its way across South America, picking up dirt, leaves, and mostly water from over one third of South America. Then it empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
    Learn about the Amazon River and find out the answers to these questions:
    Is the Amazon the biggest river in the world?
    Are there more kinds of fish in the Amazon or in the ocean?
    The Amazon drains how much of South America?
    How deep does the Amazon river get?
    And many more.
    Find out more about the Amazon and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts.
    All measurements in American and metric.
    Ages 8 and up.
    Reading Level: 6.8
    LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLearningIsland.com
    Release dateJan 16, 2015
    ISBN9781311841384
    14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River: Educational Version
    Author

    Caitlind L. Alexander

    Caitlind Alexander is the author of over 60 books for children, including the Jamie and Kendall Broderick Mystery series, the 14 Fun Facts and 101 Fun Facts series, the Wonderful World of Animals Series, and the Miss Jones series.She lives in California where she loves to visit historic places and learn about new things. She also loves to travel and has been all over the world.

    Read more from Caitlind L. Alexander

    Related to 14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River

    Related ebooks

    Children's For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      South America’s Mighty Amazon

      May 1, 2020

      South America’s Mighty Amazon
      2 min read

    • Article

      Where Rivers Come From

      Aug 5, 2021

      Where Rivers Come From
      2 min read

    • Article

      Okavango Delta

      May 22, 2020

      RIVERS usually flow into another body of water such as an ocean, a lake or another river. Sometimes as the water nears the mouth of the river, its flow slows down enough so that the sediment – solid materials such as sand and stones – that had been c

      4 min read

    • Article

      Where Are They Now?

      Jun 3, 2021

      Where Are They Now?
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Body of the Snake

      Jan 1, 2023

      The Body of the Snake
      5 min read

    • Article

      Mighty Rivers

      Apr 1, 2023

      Mighty Rivers
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Way The River Flows

      Sep 1, 2022

      The Way The River Flows
      6 min read

    • Article

      Dry Run

      Oct 11, 2023

      Dry Run
      23 min read

    • Article

      When Water Dooms Life

      Jan 29, 2019

      When Water Dooms Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      Journey To The South

      Dec 4, 2023

      Journey To The South
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Amazon By Numbers

      Aug 1, 2023

      That’s how ma ny countries the Amazon River winds through on the South American continent. It originates in the Andes Mountains of Peru and then runs through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana. It’s the

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Real Landscapes of the Great Flood Myths: In Tibet, a geologist learns how folk stories may record actual catastrophes.

      Jun 18, 2015

      I came to Tibet in the spring of 2002 to investigate a geologic mystery: How had the mighty Tsangpo River cut through the rising Himalaya to carve the deepest gorge in the world? Origin questions like this one fascinate me. I’m a geomorphologist—I st

      8 min read

    • Article

      Rebound Breakdown

      Apr 18, 2023

      Rebound Breakdown
      8 min read

    • Article

      Journey To The South

      Dec 1, 2023

      Journey To The South
      4 min read

    • Article

      Coastal Discovery Sea Lochs

      Mar 26, 2021

      Earlier in this series we learned about channels, the gateways between two bodies of water. One of the iconic features of this environment is their fast currents, made by huge volumes of water being forced through the channel every six hours as the t

      2 min read

    • Article

      Raging RIVERS

      Jan 18, 2024

      Raging RIVERS
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Living River

      Jan 28, 2023

      The Living River
      7 min read

    • Article

      An Eel Swims in the Bronx

      Jul 31, 2013

      An Eel Swims in the Bronx
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Promise Of The Amazon

      Sep 22, 2022

      The Promise Of The Amazon
      12 min read

    • Article

      One More River To Cross?

      Sep 20, 2019

      One More River To Cross?
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Dam Problem in the West

      Apr 4, 2019

      I am paddling through the silt of the Green River, the largest, most remote, and least developed tributary of the Colorado River, which brings water to nearly 40 million people across the western United States. It’s crucial, it’s overused, and it’s a

      12 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for 14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River - Caitlind L. Alexander

      14 FUN FACTS ABOUT

      THE AMAZON RIVER

      by Caitlind L. Alexander

      A LearningIsland.com

      15-Minute book

      We have used many sources to research these facts and they are accurate at time of publishing. The more we explore the wonders of our world, the more information we are discovering.

      Editor: Jennifer Robinson

      Cover picture by lubasi

      Smashwords Edition

      (c) Copyright 2014 Caitlind L. Alexander. All rights reserved.

      Published by LearningIsland.com

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please purchase your own copy from any of several online e-book stores. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      14 Fun Facts About the Amazon River / Caitlind L. Alexander

      Summary: A brief look at some interesting facts about South America's Amazon River

      1. Amazon River. Juvenile Literature. 2. South America. Juvenile Literature.

      Reading Level: 6.8

      Words: 1852

      Ages 8 and up.

      Table of Contents

      Book

      Activities

      Answers

      About the Author

      14 FUN FACTS ABOUT

      THE AMAZON RIVER

      The Amazon River is the largest river in the world. It winds its way across South America, picking up dirt, leaves, and mostly water from over one third of South America. Then it empties into the Atlantic Ocean.

      (eliduke)

      Fact 1: The Amazon River contains more water than the next ten largest rivers combined!

      If you took a list f the 11 largest rivers in the world, the Amazon River would be at the top of that list. But it isn't just

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1