Venezuelan Andes

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/venezuelan-andes

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How big is Venezuelan Andes?Constitutes approximately 5.2% of Venezuela's national territory
2. How high is Venezuelan Andes?Contains Venezuela's highest peak
3. What is the location?Northernmost extension of the Andes mountain system, fully within Venezuelan territory
4. What is the key ecosystems?Includes diverse zones from humid forests to high-altitude páramo
5. Why do the Venezuelan Andes have different climates?Because the mountains rise from low, humid slopes to very high, cold páramo zones, the altitude changes the temperature and weather at each level.
6. What kinds of animals live only in the Venezuelan Andes?Many frogs, reptiles, birds, and plants are found only in the Andes, because the mountains create isolated habitats where new species can evolve.

Bifurcation: The act of splitting into two branches or parts, as a mountain range does.
Altitudinal Zonation: The change in climate and vegetation patterns with increasing elevation on mountains.
Páramo: A high-altitude tropical grassland ecosystem found in the Andes mountains.
Endemism: The ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island or mountain range.