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WATER FALLS

 NIAGARA FALLS



 ANGEL FALLS



 HIGH FALLS

NIAGARA FALLS



• the world’s most famous

address



• visited for natural

attraction



• rich, varied, and

rewarding experience

NIAGARA FALLS

• cloudy, cold and snowy



• frequent thaws and rain



• Snow: Christmas - March



• bare ground are not

uncommon.



• ½ annual snowfall:

 "lake-effect" process

 localized

ANGEL FALLS

• in Guyana highlands



• one of five topographical

regions



• edge of a table-top

mountain free falls 2,421

feet to the river below



• tallest waterfall



• 15 times higher than

Niagara Falls total of

2,937 feet.

ANGEL FALLS

• named after Jimmy Angel



• barnstorming bush pilot

from Missouri



• Jimmy Angel first saw the

falls in 1933



• returned in 1937 with his

wife, and gardener and

landed Auyan-tepui.



• way back in 11 days.

HIGH FALLS

• Known as Niagara of

the North



• Town of Brace bridge,

Ontario Canada



• 882 feet above sea

level



• 48 foot drop down



• Three sets of falls

HIGH FALLS



• Water flows down

Muskoka river



• 25 cubic meters



• 1870 – spectacular falls



• Or called “the big falls”

THE END

Made By: Ann-Marie Agius

Class: 4 Sapphire

Subject: Geography





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