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The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze River.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the largest steel arch bridges.
The Burj Al Arab is built on an artificial island.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of the longest railway tunnels in the world.
The CN Tower in Toronto was once the tallest free-standing structure.
The Colosseum in Rome demonstrates advanced ancient engineering.
The Golden Gate Bridge spans the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
The Aswan High Dam controls flooding of the Nile River.
The Petronas Towers were once the tallest buildings in the world.
The Millau Viaduct in France is one of the tallest bridges in the world.
The Eiffel Tower was once the tallest man-made structure on Earth.
The London Underground is one of the oldest metro systems in the world.
The Palm Islands in Dubai were constructed using land reclamation techniques.
The Suez Canal significantly reduced travel time between Europe and Asia.
The Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the longest railway lines in the world.
The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937.
The Channel Tunnel links the United Kingdom and France beneath the English Channel.
The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The Great Wall of China stretches over 13,000 miles.
The United States Senate and House of Representatives form Congress.
The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
The United States purchased Florida from Spain in 1819.
The longest cave system in the world is Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
The largest island in the world is Greenland.
The longest mountain range in the world is the Andes.
The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela.
The coldest temperature recorded on Earth occurred in Antarctica.
The largest desert in the world by area is Antarctica.
The longest river in the world is often considered to be the Nile.
The tallest mountain above sea level is Mount Everest.
The 2019–2020 Australian bushfires burned millions of acres.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens reshaped the surrounding landscape.
The Ring of Fire surrounds much of the Pacific Ocean.
Glacial periods caused sea levels to drop significantly.
Ancient volcanic eruptions shaped prehistoric environments.
The Pangaea supercontinent existed before breaking apart.
The Ice Age shaped many of today’s landscapes.
Fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica.
The first forests appeared during the Devonian period.
The Pleistocene epoch included repeated glacial cycles.
The Ice Age featured massive glaciers covering large parts of Earth.
The Sahara Desert is one of the largest deserts in the world.
The Sahara Desert receives less rainfall than most regions.
The Sahara Desert has both sand dunes and rocky plateaus.
Ancient civilizations often formed near rivers.
The Earth's crust is composed of tectonic plates.
The Sahara Desert stretches across northern Africa.
The Earth's mantle lies between the crust and core.
The Sahara Desert experiences dramatic temperature changes.
The Nile River delta is fertile farmland.