Ria travels to view various natural features including mountain ranges, glaciers, waterfalls, rock formations, lakes, and the northern lights. The document provides details on the tallest mountains and longest mountain ranges which include the Andes, Himalayas, and Alps. It also discusses glaciers and icebergs including the largest current iceberg. Images are included of various landscapes featuring these natural wonders.

1. Ria Travels to Natural Features
Mountain Ranges, Glaciers, Waterfalls, Erosion and Rock
Formations, and the Northern Lights

2. Comparative and Superlative Quick Review
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3. Mountain Ranges
● The Andes – 7,000 km the longest
World’s highest volcanoes are in
the Andes.
● The Himalayan range is home to the
planet’s highest peaks, including the
highest, Mount Everest.
● The Himalaya are among the
youngest mountain ranges on the
planet
● The Alpine region area contains
about a hundred peaks higher than
4,000 m, known as the four-
thousanders.
● The Rockies- Not as long as the
Andes, or as high as the Himalayas
or Alps.

4. Where are the Rockies?
The Rocky Mountains are found in
western North America. They span
from western Canada through the
counties of British Columbia and
Alberta all the way over the border into
the USA through the states of Montana,
Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, & Arizona.

5. The Rocky’s Highest Peak
Their highest peak is Mount Elbert in Colorado which is 4401
metres (14,440 feet) high.

6. The Rocky’s National Parks
Most of the mountain
range now is protected by
National Park status. This
is to stop the area being
damaged and built on.
Most of the parks are
popular with tourists for
hiking, cycling and fishing
in the summer and skiing
and winter sports in the
winter.
Banff National Park
Johnson Canyon
Gran Teton National Park

7. More Rocky Mountain Pictures

8. More Rocky Mountain Pictures

9. Glaciers and Icebergs
Glaciers currently cover 10 percent of
the Earth’s surface. During the last Ice
Age, glaciers covered 32 percent of
the Earth.
An enormous iceberg – named A-76 –
is now the biggest iceberg on Earth.
The berg broke off from the western
side of Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf
into the Weddell Sea. The huge
iceberg measures about 1,668 square
miles (4,320 square km) in size.

10. Glaciers

11. Icebergs

12. Waterfalls
Waterfalls are created by the erosion
process. Sediment in water can erode soft
bedrock and overtime it will completely
erode all the soft bedrock until only
harder rocks remain.
The tallest natural waterfall in the world
is Angel Falls in Canaima National Park,
Bolívar, Venezuela
One of the widest waterfalls in the world
is Victoria Falls in Southern Africa.
Waterfalls are beautiful but can be
dangerous. Many people every year die
trying to go over waterfalls..

13. Tallest and Widest Waterfalls in the World

14. Erosion and Rock Formations
Erosion is where land is worn
away by different forces. These
forces can be water, wind, and
ice. It can change the shape and
texture of mountains and many
other things too. Erosion has
actually formed many cool
features on Earth-like mountain
peaks, coastlines, and valleys too.

15. Rock Formations

16. Erosion and Rock Formations

17. Erosion and Rock Formations

18. Erosion and Rock Formations

19. Lakes
● The Earth has 117 million lakes, covering
3.7 percent of the surface.90 million lakes
are no bigger than 2 football fields.
● The Dead Sea is the lowest lake in the
world. It is 418m below sea level.
● Ojos del Salado is the highest lake in the
world at 6,390m above sea level on the
Chile-Argentina border.
● Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in
the world. It is 1,637m deep (5471ft).
● In Africa, Lake Tanganyika is the longest
lake and 2nd largest by volume and
deepest, at 660 km (410 mi).

20. Lakes of Canada
Canada is the
country with the
most lakes in the
world. No other
country has as
many as Canada.

21. Lakes of Canada

22. Lakes of Canada

23. The Northern Lights
The name Aurora Borealis,
another title for the Northern
Lights, come from two ancient
names. Aurora is the Roman god
of the dawn; Boreas is the Greek
name for the north wind.
The Northern Lights are most
visible to people living in the far
north. They are sometimes
visible as far south as Florida.

24. The Northern Lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVsONlc3OUY