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    14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon: Educational Version
    14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon: Educational Version
    14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon: Educational Version
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    14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon: Educational Version

    By Jeannie Meekins

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    The Grand Canyon is located in Arizona in the United States of America. It is a huge group of canyons that have been cut into the landscape by the Colorado River. It is also considered to be one of the greatest natural wonders of the world.
    Find out the answers to these questions and more:

    How does the Grand Canyon tell us the history of life on Earth?
    How was the Grand Canyon formed?
    How deep was the Grand Canyon before the Colorado River began running?
    The Grand Canyon should have been twice as deep as it is. Why isn’t it?
    What is the biggest predator in the Grand Canyon?

    Find out more about the Grand Canyon and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts.

    All measurements in American and metric.

    The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards.

    LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLearningIsland.com
    Release dateSep 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301341177
    14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon: Educational Version
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    Jeannie Meekins

    Jeannie Meekins is an Australian writer who lives with her children and a couple of cats who think they own the computer. And if her dog could read, he’d be jealous, so it’s lucky that he can’t. Jeannie has also written over 10 books for children, many available through LearningIsland.com

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      14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon - Jeannie Meekins

      14 FUN FACTS ABOUT

      THE GRAND CANYON

      By Jeannie Meekins

      A LearningIsland.com

      15 - Minute Book

      We have used many sources to research these facts and they are accurate at time of publishing. The more we explore the wonders of our world, the more information we are discovering.

      Editor: Jennifer Robinson

      Pictures by the National Park Service (NPS) unless otherwise noted

      Smashwords Edition

      Text (c) Copyright 2011 Jeannie Meekins. All rights reserved.

      Published by LearningIsland.com.

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please purchase your own copy from any of several online e-book stores. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      14 Fun Facts About the Grand Canyon / Jeannie Meekins

      Summary: A brief look at some fun facts about the Grand Canyon.

      1. Grand Canyon. Juvenile Literature. 2. United States. Juvenile Literature.

      Words: 1923

      Reading Level: 6.9

      Ages 9 and up.

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      Billions of years ago the world was a very different place. The continents as we know them did not exist. Islands, such as Hawaii, did not exist. Rainforests thrived where deserts now stand. Many mountain ranges were flat plains. Even life did not exist.

      The Earth’s crust is a thin shell. A jigsaw puzzle of pieces that sit on a bed of molten rock. They move, pushing, pulling, smashing and grinding against each other. Molten rock finds weak spots or holes and spews itself forth into the atmosphere. This happens not only on dry land but under our seas.

      Most of our planet’s crust is covered by water. It

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