{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-world-records",
 "id": "fun-world-records",
 "title": "Natural World Records",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Records",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Big, tall, deep and long things in nature and geography. Stable facts only.",
 "tags": [
  "records",
  "geography",
  "nature"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Record",
 "backLabel": "Holder",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Tallest mountain above sea level",
   "Mount Everest, about 29,000 feet (8,849 m)"
  ],
  [
   "Longest river (often cited)",
   "The Nile or the Amazon, depending on how it is measured"
  ],
  [
   "Largest ocean",
   "The Pacific Ocean"
  ],
  [
   "Deepest ocean trench",
   "The Mariana Trench in the Pacific"
  ],
  [
   "Largest desert on Earth",
   "Antarctica, a polar desert"
  ],
  [
   "Largest hot desert",
   "The Sahara"
  ],
  [
   "Largest continent",
   "Asia"
  ],
  [
   "Smallest continent",
   "Australia"
  ],
  [
   "Largest country by area",
   "Russia"
  ],
  [
   "Smallest country by area",
   "Vatican City"
  ],
  [
   "Largest island",
   "Greenland (not counting continents)"
  ],
  [
   "Largest lake by surface area",
   "The Caspian Sea"
  ],
  [
   "Largest freshwater lake by area",
   "Lake Superior"
  ],
  [
   "Deepest lake",
   "Lake Baikal in Russia"
  ],
  [
   "Highest waterfall",
   "Angel Falls in Venezuela"
  ],
  [
   "Largest rainforest",
   "The Amazon rainforest"
  ],
  [
   "Largest coral reef system",
   "The Great Barrier Reef in Australia"
  ],
  [
   "Longest mountain range",
   "The Andes in South America (on land)"
  ],
  [
   "Tallest mountain from base to peak",
   "Mauna Kea in Hawaii"
  ],
  [
   "Largest volcano in the solar system",
   "Olympus Mons on Mars"
  ],
  [
   "Biggest canyon in the US",
   "The Grand Canyon"
  ],
  [
   "Biggest planet",
   "Jupiter"
  ],
  [
   "Hottest planet",
   "Venus"
  ],
  [
   "Coldest place on Earth",
   "Antarctica"
  ],
  [
   "Driest place on Earth",
   "Parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile"
  ],
  [
   "Highest capital city",
   "La Paz, Bolivia"
  ],
  [
   "Longest wall",
   "The Great Wall of China"
  ],
  [
   "Largest country in Africa by area",
   "Algeria"
  ],
  [
   "Largest country in South America",
   "Brazil"
  ],
  [
   "Largest country in North America by area",
   "Canada"
  ],
  [
   "Tallest tree species",
   "Coast redwood"
  ],
  [
   "Biggest tree by volume",
   "Giant sequoia named General Sherman"
  ],
  [
   "Oldest living tree species (individual groves)",
   "Great Basin bristlecone pine"
  ],
  [
   "Biggest single flower",
   "Rafflesia arnoldii of Southeast Asia"
  ],
  [
   "Biggest cat",
   "The tiger"
  ],
  [
   "Biggest animal",
   "The blue whale"
  ],
  [
   "Fastest land animal",
   "The cheetah"
  ],
  [
   "Tallest living animal",
   "The giraffe"
  ],
  [
   "Largest bird",
   "The ostrich"
  ],
  [
   "Longest-lived land animal",
   "The Galapagos tortoise"
  ],
  [
   "Tallest building (2010 onward)",
   "Burj Khalifa in Dubai, over 2,700 feet (828 m)"
  ],
  [
   "First person to reach the summit of Mount Everest",
   "Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953"
  ],
  [
   "First to the South Pole",
   "Roald Amundsen's team in 1911"
  ],
  [
   "First person in space",
   "Yuri Gagarin in 1961"
  ],
  [
   "First person on the Moon",
   "Neil Armstrong in 1969"
  ],
  [
   "First powered flight",
   "The Wright brothers in 1903"
  ],
  [
   "First solo nonstop Atlantic flight",
   "Charles Lindbergh in 1927"
  ],
  [
   "First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic",
   "Amelia Earhart in 1932"
  ],
  [
   "First country to put a satellite in orbit",
   "The Soviet Union, Sputnik 1 in 1957"
  ],
  [
   "First US astronaut in orbit",
   "John Glenn in 1962"
  ],
  [
   "Hottest temperature measured on Earth (official)",
   "134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 C) at Death Valley in 1913"
  ],
  [
   "Coldest temperature measured on Earth",
   "About minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C) in Antarctica in 1983"
  ],
  [
   "Most spoken first language",
   "Mandarin Chinese"
  ],
  [
   "Oldest city still lived in (often cited)",
   "Damascus, Syria, or Jericho, depending on definition"
  ],
  [
   "Most visited museum (in most years)",
   "The Louvre in Paris"
  ]
 ]
}