Name that Wonder
This is the tallest mountain on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
Where is the Grand Canyon?
What is Arizona, USA?
What river carved the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado River
What does Mount Everest look like?
A towering snow-covered peak rising above the clouds in a mountain range.
Why is Mount Everest difficult to climb?
Extreme cold, low oxygen, and high altitude.
This giant canyon was carved by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?
Off the coast of Australia.
What forms coral reefs like the Great Barrier Reef?
Coral polyps
What does the Grand Canyon look like?
A massive canyon with layered red and orange rock walls stretching for miles.
Why is the Great Barrier Reef important to ocean ecosystems?
It provides habitat for thousands of marine species
This coral reef system off Australia is the largest in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
What continent is Victoria Falls located on?
What is Africa?
What type of Earth movement formed Mount Everest?
Tectonic plate collision
What does the Great Barrier Reef look like?
A long underwater structure made of colorful coral reefs in clear blue water.
Why is Victoria Falls considered a natural wonder?
Because of its massive size and powerful water flow
This natural harbor is located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is surrounded by dramatic mountains.
What is Rio de Janeiro Harbor (Guanabara Bay)?
This wonder is located in the Himalayas, a mountain range formed between two continents.
What is Mount Everest?
This wonder formed as magma rose through the Earth’s crust and erupted, creating a volcano.
What is Parícutin Volcano?
What does the Aurora Borealis look like?
Curtains of green, purple, and red light moving across the night sky in polar regions.
Why do scientists study the Grand Canyon?
It shows Earth’s geological history through rock layers.
This atmospheric phenomenon creates colorful lights near the North Pole.
What is the Aurora Borealis?
This wonder is located in South America and is a natural harbor on the coast of Brazil.
What is Rio de Janeiro Harbor (Guanabara Bay)?
What causes the Aurora Borealis?
Charged particles from the sun collide with gases in Earth’s atmosphere, causing colorful lights in the sky.
What does Rio de Janeiro Harbor look like?
A wide, curved natural harbor surrounded by steep mountains and a famous rounded peak nearby called Sugarloaf Mountain.
Why is Parícutin Volcano considered a natural wonder?
This volcano formed suddenly in a cornfield in Mexico, and scientists were able to watch it form from the very beginning, grow through eruptions, and eventually become inactive.