THE SEVEN NATURAL

WONDERS OF THE WORLD

1.GRAND CANYON,USA
Name: The Grand Canyon

Location: USA,Arizona

Floor elevation: Approx. 2,600 feet

Length: 227 miles (446 km)

Width: 4 to 18 miles (6.4 to 29.0 km)

Depth: Attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 metres)

The reason it got created: It got carved by the Colorado River

Age: 5-6 million years

Activity: Go hiking,take a scenic drive,ride a mule,rafting and camping

2.THE GREAT BARRIER BEEF,AUSTRALIA
Name: The Great Barrier Beef

Location: Located in the coral sea,off the east coast of Queensland mainland,Australia

Record: The world’s largest coral reef system

Individual reefs: Composed of over 2,900 individual reefs

Length: Approximately 2,300 km (1,300 miles)

Width: 24 km wide in the north to over 240 km wide in the south

Area: 35 milion hectares

Fish species: 1,500

Activities: Snorkelling and scuba diving

3.THE AMAZON RAINFOREST,ECUADOR
Name: The Amazon Rainforest
Location: Bolivia, Brazil,Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana
(France), Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela

Length: 6,992 km (4,345 miles)

Width: 1,900 km (1,200 miles)
Area: 5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 square miles)
Record: The world’s biggest forest
Population of people: 30 million
Species of animal: 427 mammal species, 1,300 bird species, 378 species of reptiles
and more than 400 species of amphibians

Species of plants: 80,000

Activities: Jungle walk,kayaking and canopy bridge walk
4.THE DEAD SEA,JORDAN
Name: The Dead Sea

Location: Bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and West Bank to the west

Depth: 306 metres

Length: 50 km

Width: 15 km
Record: One of the world’s saltiest bodies of water

Salt level: 280 parts per thousand (ppt) about eight times saltier than average
seawater (35ppt)

Activities: Swim to float and put special mud on the body

5.THE NIAGARA FALLS,CANADA
Name : The Niagara Falls
Location: Niagara River into the Niagara Gorge;border of the New York,United
States and Ontario,Canada

Total height: 167 ft (51 metres)

Total width: 670 metres (2,200 feet)

Total length: 1,039 metres (3,409 feet)

Number of drops: 3

Record: The highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America

Litres of water that go through Niagara Falls: 2.8 million litres per second

Activities: Journey behind the falls and tour

6.TABLE MOUNTAIN,SOUTH AFRICA
Name: Table mountain

Location: Over looking the city of Cape Town in South Africa

Height: 1,086 metres

Length: 2 miles (3 km)

Width: 6 to 10 km wide (4 to 6 miles)

Privileges: A flat-topped mountain and home to variest plant

Activities: Hiking,tours and ride the cable car

7.THE BLUE CAVE,GREECE
Name: The Blue Cave

Location: The cave lies on the southeast coast of the island (The greek island of Kastelorizo)

Length: 40-50 metres

Width: 25-30 metres

Height: 20-25

Attractions: Beautiful deep water inside the cave

Activities: Visiting the place by boat

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The writer:WASIM-1 Umar
The source:Wikipedia

The assistant:No one