7 Wonders of the Natural World Quiz

What are the 7 Wonders of the Natural World?

1. Mount Everest 2. The Grand Canyon 3. The Northern Lights 4. The Harbor at Rio de Janeiro 5. The Great Barrier Reef 6. Paricutin: The Volcano in a Cornfield 7. Victoria Falls

What is another name for the Northern Lights and where did this other name come from?

Aurora Borealis is the other name of the effect itself. It comes from the Roman god of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas.

What is a more likely cause of the creation of the Grand Canyon and what are some proofs for this theory?

During the time of Noah's flood, water is said to come up from the belly of the earth. When the water from under the earth's crust came up to cover the land, the crust could not hold the weight and a HUGE sink hole was formed, now called the Grand Canyon. Even in the reading from the web site it is said that the Canyon "was once the bottom of a shallow sea. Along the rim visitors can still find fossilized snails, corals and shell fish."

What is the Scientific Explanation for the Northern Lights?

Electrons coming from the sun were guided to Earth's poles through the planet's magnetic field. There they interacted with the Earth's atmosphere to cause the lights. There are Southern Lights as well at the South Pole.

What formed Mount Everest?

Formed By: An up-thrust at the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

How was Rio De Janeiro mountain landscape formed?

Formed By: The interaction of the Serra do Mar mountains with the ocean. It is the interaction of the softer gneiss rock with that of the harder granite at the harbor that gives the mountains their spectacular shapes.

Who made the list of the Wonders of the Natural World?

In 1997 the Cable News Network (CNN) put together a list of what their editors thought were the most amazing creations of nature.

What Mountain Range is Mt Everest a part of?

Mt. Everest is part of the Himalaya Mountains in the central region of Asia, north of the Indian sub-continent. On the Border of Nepal and The People's Republic of China.

How was the Paricutin Corn Field Volcano Discovered and how fast did it grow?

On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido was working in his cornfield just outside the Tarascan Indian village of Paricutin, Mexico. He noticed something strange: on top of a small hill in the field a huge crack, over six feet wide and 150 feet long, had appeared in the earth. Very quickly the ground then swelled up over six feet in height and fine gray ashes were pouring out of the hole. "Immediately more smoke began to rise with a hiss or whistle, loud and continuous; and there was a smell of sulfur." In a little more than 24 hours the cone of the Paricutin volcano had grown to over 165 feet. Within six more days it had doubled that height. Paricutin was very active in its first year, growing to four-fifths of its final 1,353 foot height.

What CRAZY thing can visitors do at Victory Falls and when?

One activity at the falls which is both terrifying and exhilarating is a swim in the "devil's pool." During the dry season the water level drops enough that a shallow pool forms along Livingstone Island at the edge of the falls. Normally anyone entering the water here would be swept by the strong currents over the edge to their death. When the levels are low, however, a natural lip forms at the edge of the pool that keeps swimmers from being carried over the cataract. It is possible for those bathers with nerves of steel to lean over the slippery rock lip and peer directly into the gorge.

What does the name Rio De Janeiro mean?

Rio De Janeiro means "January River" in Portuguese because of the date of discovery.

How is the Great Barrier Reef Formed?

The Great Barrier Reef (Like other Coral Reefs) formed underwater when thousands of tiny animals, only a few centimeters in length, establish a colony. These coral polyps build themselves hard, carbonate, exoskeletons to protect their bodies. When the polyps die they leave these exoskeletons behind and this becomes the surface on which a new generation of coral polyps can grow. Because one generation of coral builds on the last, the coral can "grow" vertically from 1/3 of an inch to almost one inch a year under good conditions.

What is the Great Barrier Reef and where is it?

The Great Barrier Reef is a part of a vast system of 3,800 coral banks and islands that run along the northeastern coast of Australia.

What formed the Grand Canyon according to secular scientists?

They say the canyon was carved over the past 6 million years by the action of the Colorado River

How was Victoria Falls Formed and where is it located?

Victoria Falls is the result of soft sandstone that fills huge cracks in the hard basalt rock of the plateau. As the raging waters of the Upper Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa flows across the plateau it finds the cracks of the sandstone and starts wearing away the softer rock, eventually creating a series of gorges.