Sponsoring Teacher:
Svitlana Dyka,
School-Gymnasium # 31
Kirovohrad
Ukraine
2011
THE PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:
•School-Gymnasium #31, Kirovohrad, Ukraine
•Gymnasium#1, Starye Dorogi, Belarus
•University Prep, Seattle, Washington, the USA
The world of plants and animals plays an
extremely important role in the life of people
on our planet Earth. That’s why we invite you
to make the acquaintance with the most
exciting sights of nature, different species of
animals, birds and plants in such countries
as Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, the USA and
Canada.
You are welcome to this marvelous trip!
WEB OF LIFE
An invisible web,
As fragile as dreams,
Links mountains to forests
And rivers to streams.
Through woodlands and forests;
Where seas flow and ebb,
Over ice caps and deserts,
Life weaves a great web.
From plankton to whales,
All life great and small
Depends on each other.
Life’s web links us all.
And we must take care
Of each gossamer thread,
For we are all part of
This great world wide web.
By Jane Clarke
The motto: “Save Our Environment!”
THE STATE WONDERS OF
NATURE
You are invited to make a journey on the protected corners of
nature of our beloved Kirovogradschina.
On its territory there are 7 parks, that are sights of the garden
and park art of the end of XIX century, 42 reserves and
30 preserved natural boundaries.
Sun sets over a lake in the
Kirovohrad Oblast countryside
Much of Kirovohrad Oblast is taken
up by grain fields due to the rich
chernozem soil
A scenic riverbend
Wildflowers grow where no fields
have been sown
Close up of flowers
Much of Kirovohrad Oblast is
taken up by grain fields due to the
rich chernozem soil
The land belongs to everyone
and no one
Looking towards
a stream
Poppies
Dendropark
“Veseli Bokovenky”
“Veseli Bokoven’ki” is a park of
the end of XIX century, situated
in the village Ivanivka
in Dolinskii district
of Kirovogradskii region.
Its territory occupies 109
hectares. There are 800 kinds
of exotic trees and bushes in it.
Onufrievski
Park
Onufrіїvs'kiy park is a sight
of the garden and park art.
The State Landscape Reserve “Chornolisky”
The territory of Chornilisky
Zakaznik is 8 thousand
hectares.
The site is one of the
largest broadleaved
woodlands in the foreststeppe zone of Ukraine.
This area is an important
part of the perspective
national park “DmytrivskoChornoliskyi.
It includes a lake with one
of the most southern peatmoss mires in the Eastern
Europe.
One can find plants there
which enter in “The Red
Book”.
Belarus is a very green country.
Natural vegetation covers 93.1% of
the land, and 1/3 of all green
landscape is forest. In Belarus
forest, 28 types of trees as well as
around 70 types of shrubberies can
be found. They include:
Birch (across the country)
Pine (across the country)
Conifers (northern areas)
Oak ( southern areas)
Belarus is situated on a plain
rising to hills, the highest of
which
is Dzierzhinsky Hill (350m).
There are five National Parks in Belarus, protected by the State. Their work has
been recognized and supported by UNESCO
Belavezhskaya Pushcha is in the Brest
region, 340km to the southwest of
Minsk. It is a home to many ancient oak
trees dating back more than 500 years,
as well as venerable ash, pine and fir
trees.
This
park was established in
1995 among the beautiful lakes of
the Vitebsk region in the northwest of Belarus.
Narachansky National Park in the
Minsk region of Belarus was
established in 1999.
Pripyatsky
National park
lies in the Gomel region in
the south of the country,
250km from Minsk.
Berezenskyi National park is situated in
the north of Belarus. 120km from Minsk. It
was created to protect rare animals.
Mount Rainier
National Park
The Columbia River is the largest
river in the Pacific Northwest.
The river rises in the Rocky
Mountains in Canada.
It flows northwest then south into
the U.S. State of Washington.
The river is 1,243 miles long.
Columbia River
Mount Rainier is located 54 miles
away from the city of Seattle.
Mount Rainier is the most prominent
volcano in the United States of
America.
Mount Rainier has an elevation of
14,411 feet.
Mount Rainier is a very large
stratovolcano.
This is mountain range is on
Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
Located in Western Washington in
the U.S.
This mountain range is not very
large in height.
The tallest of them all is only 7,962
feet tall.
Olympic Mountains
Puget Sound
•Puget Sound is located in the
state of Washington in the United
States of America.
•It is a complex estuary.
•It has a close connection to other
waterways.
•It is connected to the Strait of
Juan de Fuca and the Pacific
Ocean.