{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-wonders-of-world",
 "id": "fun-wonders-of-world",
 "title": "Wonders of the World",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Landmarks",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "The ancient wonders, the new wonders, and natural wonders.",
 "tags": [
  "wonders",
  "landmarks",
  "history"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Wonder",
 "backLabel": "Fact",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Great Pyramid of Giza",
   "The only ancient wonder still standing; built about 4,500 years ago"
  ],
  [
   "Hanging Gardens of Babylon",
   "Terraced gardens said to be in ancient Babylon; no one is sure they existed"
  ],
  [
   "Statue of Zeus at Olympia",
   "A huge statue of the king of the Greek gods"
  ],
  [
   "Temple of Artemis at Ephesus",
   "A grand temple to the Greek goddess of the hunt, in what is now Turkey"
  ],
  [
   "Mausoleum at Halicarnassus",
   "A large tomb built for a king named Mausolus; gave us the word mausoleum"
  ],
  [
   "Colossus of Rhodes",
   "A giant bronze statue of the sun god Helios on a Greek island"
  ],
  [
   "Lighthouse of Alexandria",
   "A very tall lighthouse in Egypt"
  ],
  [
   "How many ancient wonders are there?",
   "Seven"
  ],
  [
   "Great Wall of China",
   "A defensive wall stretching thousands of miles"
  ],
  [
   "Petra",
   "A city carved into rose-colored rock in Jordan"
  ],
  [
   "Christ the Redeemer",
   "A giant statue above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"
  ],
  [
   "Machu Picchu",
   "An Inca city high in the Andes of Peru"
  ],
  [
   "Chichen Itza",
   "A Maya city with a great step pyramid in Mexico"
  ],
  [
   "Colosseum",
   "A huge Roman arena in Rome"
  ],
  [
   "Taj Mahal",
   "A white marble tomb in Agra, India, built in the 1600s"
  ],
  [
   "How many new wonders were chosen in 2007?",
   "Seven"
  ],
  [
   "Grand Canyon",
   "A natural wonder carved by the Colorado River"
  ],
  [
   "Great Barrier Reef",
   "The largest living reef system, off Australia"
  ],
  [
   "Victoria Falls",
   "A mile-wide waterfall on the Zambezi River"
  ],
  [
   "Mount Everest",
   "The highest mountain above sea level"
  ],
  [
   "Northern Lights",
   "Glowing colored lights in the sky near the poles"
  ],
  [
   "Amazon Rainforest",
   "The world's largest tropical forest"
  ],
  [
   "Paricutin volcano",
   "A volcano that rose from a Mexican cornfield in 1943"
  ],
  [
   "Harbor of Rio de Janeiro",
   "A scenic bay in Brazil"
  ],
  [
   "Angel Falls",
   "The world's tallest waterfall, in Venezuela"
  ],
  [
   "Niagara Falls",
   "Huge waterfalls between Canada and the USA"
  ],
  [
   "Uluru",
   "A giant red sandstone rock in Australia, sacred to the Anangu"
  ],
  [
   "Stonehenge",
   "A ring of huge standing stones in England"
  ],
  [
   "Easter Island moai",
   "Giant stone heads on Rapa Nui"
  ],
  [
   "Angkor Wat",
   "The largest religious building in the world, in Cambodia"
  ],
  [
   "Hagia Sophia",
   "A famous building in Istanbul, once a church, then a mosque"
  ],
  [
   "Eiffel Tower",
   "An iron tower in Paris built for the 1889 World's Fair"
  ],
  [
   "Pyramids of Teotihuacan",
   "Giant pyramids near Mexico City"
  ],
  [
   "Alhambra",
   "A palace and fortress in Granada, Spain"
  ],
  [
   "Forbidden City",
   "The palace city of Chinese emperors in Beijing"
  ],
  [
   "Acropolis",
   "A hilltop with the Parthenon in Athens"
  ],
  [
   "Great Zimbabwe",
   "Ruins of a stone city in Africa"
  ],
  [
   "Borobudur",
   "A huge Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia"
  ],
  [
   "Pompeii",
   "A Roman town preserved by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in 79 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Terracotta Army",
   "Thousands of clay soldiers buried with China's first emperor"
  ],
  [
   "Lascaux caves",
   "Famous cave paintings in France"
  ],
  [
   "Cappadocia",
   "Fairy chimney rock formations in Turkey"
  ],
  [
   "Cliffs of Moher",
   "High sea cliffs in Ireland"
  ],
  [
   "Giant's Causeway",
   "Thousands of basalt columns on the coast of Northern Ireland"
  ],
  [
   "Halong Bay",
   "Limestone islands rising from the sea in Vietnam"
  ],
  [
   "Mount Fuji",
   "Japan's tallest mountain, a snowcapped volcano"
  ],
  [
   "Lake Baikal",
   "The deepest lake in the world"
  ],
  [
   "Dead Sea",
   "A salty lake where people float easily"
  ],
  [
   "Serengeti",
   "Plains in Tanzania with huge animal migrations"
  ],
  [
   "Great Rift Valley",
   "A long crack in the Earth's surface in Africa"
  ],
  [
   "Galapagos Islands",
   "Home of unique wildlife that inspired Darwin"
  ],
  [
   "Sahara Desert",
   "The largest hot desert"
  ],
  [
   "Antarctica",
   "The southernmost continent"
  ],
  [
   "Yellowstone",
   "First national park, with geysers"
  ]
 ]
}