What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal – everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too – Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example.
Here is one person’s choice of eleven wonders. Some of them are made by people, and others are natural. Everyone knows the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef – but what about the Iguazú Falls, or the old city of Petra?
Come and discover new wonders …
Glossary
- Buddhist: (n & adj) following the teachings of Buddha
- calcium carbonate: (CaCO3) something solid and white that is found in chalk and some kinds of stone
- camel: a large animal with a long neck that carries people and things in hot dry places
- canal: a long narrow passage that carries water
- cherry tree: a tree with beautiful pink or white flowers
- city: a big and important town; capital city the most important city in a country
- column: a tall piece of stone or wood that is part of a building
- cool: a little cold; between warm and cold
- cubic metre: the volume of something that is 1 metre long, 1 metre wide, and 1 metre high (m3)
- dam: a wall that is built across a river to hold the water back
- defend: to fight to keep away people or things that attack
- destroy: when something is destroyed, it is dead and finished (e.g. fire destroys a forest)
- earth: the world; the planet that we live on
- earthquake: a sudden strong shaking of the ground
- electricity: power that makes machines work and can make heat and light
- elephant: a very big wild animal with a long nose that hangs down
- entrance: the door or opening where you go into a place
- flag: a piece of cloth with a special pattern on it; every country has its flag
- flat: (adj) smooth, with no parts higher or lower than the rest
- forest: a large area of land covered with trees
- gazelle: a small animal like a deer that can run very fast
- god: a spirit that people believe has power over them and nature
- grass: a plant with thin green leaves that grows on the ground
- grow: to get bigger; (of a plant) to exist in a particular place
- harbour: a place where ships can stay safely in the water
- Hindu: belonging to the religion of Hinduism
- hyena: a wild animal like a dog that eats dead animals
- jaguar: a large wild cat with black spots
- kind: a group of things that are the same in some way
- king: the most important man in a country
- land: the part of the earth that is not the sea; a piece of ground
- line: a long thin mark like this _
- magnetic: able to attract things made of iron;
- magnetic field: an area with a magnetic force
- moss: a very small green plant that grows in wet places
- Muslim: following the religion of Islam
- nail: a thin piece of metal that holds pieces of wood together
- natural: made by nature, not by people
- park: a large place with trees and gardens where people can walk
- particle: a very small piece of something
- pink: with a light red colour
- prayer: words that you say to God or a god
- rare: not found very often
- rock: something very hard that is found in the ground
- shadow: a dark shape that something makes on the ground when it is between the sun and the ground
- snake: an animal with a long thin body and no legs
- spice: a small part of a plant that you put in food to make it taste good
- sport: a game like football, tennis etc.
- statue: a model of a person, made from stone or metal
- telegraph: a way of sending messages along wires using electricity
- temple: a building where people worship a god or gods
- terracotta: a red-brown earth that is cooked to make it hard
- treasure: something that is worth a lot of money;
- treasury: a place where valuable things are kept
- weapon: something that you use to fight with
- wildebeest: a large wild animal with curved horns
- zebra: a wild animal like a horse with black and white stripes on its body