WORLD HERITAGE SITES AND FAMOUS MONUMENTS Review for the final exam Seven Man-made Wonders of the World

Wonders of the World Seven Natural Wonders of the World O Seven Wonders of the World, Old and New (2:36) Seven Man-Made Wonders of the World (7:50) O atch?v=Lka9A7IRYz8 atch?v=Lka9A7IRYz8 25 Places to See before You Die (Note: Santorini is a Greek Island) O Maps that Will Change the Way You Look at the World O Things You Won’t Believe Exist in Nature O Things You Have to See to Believe O

World’s Most Unusual Buildings O EH5g EH5g

England Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament Buckingham Palace

England The Tower of London Tower Bridge

England: Windsor Castle

England The White Cliffs of Dover Stonehenge

Paris, France The Eiffel Tower Notre Dame de Paris

Paris, France Arc de Triomphe The Louvre Museum and the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

The Palace of Versailles near Paris

France The Beaches of Normandy: D-Day Invasion The French Riviera

Rome, Italy The Colosseum The Pantheon

Rome, Italy: The Forum

Rome, Italy The Trevi Fountain

Pisa, Italy: The Leaning Tower of Pisa Il Torre Pendente

Italy: Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius

Venice, Italy St. Mark’s Square Venice

Venice, Italy Rialto Bridge

Barcelona, Spain La Sagrada Familia

Barcelona, Spain Casa Mila Parc Guell

Berlin, Germany The Brandenburg Gate

Berlin Wall and East Side Gallery

Neuschwanstein Castle “King Ludwig’s Castle”

Holland: Windmills and Tulips

Holland: Polders

Copenhagen, Denmark The Little Mermaid Statue

Athens, Greece The Acropolis The Parthenon

Olympia, Greece

Oia, Santorini Greece

Moscow, Russia: St. Basil’s Cathedral

St. Petersburg, Russia: The Winter Palace

Russia: Siberia

Mexico: Chichen Itza

Peru: Machu Picchu

Peru: The Nazca Lines

Chile: Easter Island

Rio de Janiero, Brazil Christ the Redeemer

Angel Falls Venezuela

Egypt The Pyramids at Giza The Sphinx

United Arab Emirates: Dubai Dubai’s Rotating Building Definitely Dubai – 1 min travel video

Istanbul, Turkey: Hagia Sophia

Jerusalem, Israel The Wailing Wall The Dome of the Rock

India: The Taj Mahal

China The Great Wall The Forbidden City

Australia: Ayers Rock The Sydney Opera House

New Zealand: Natural Beauty and Hobbiton

The United States: Mount Rushmore

The Statue of Liberty

The Empire State Building

Pearl Harbor Memorial Hawaii

Fun Facts O Bangkok, Thailand is the capital with the longest name. It’s official name is: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit." O Which means: “The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (unlike Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.”

Fun Facts O It is possible to walk around the world in a few seconds! O …if you’re standing at the geographic North or South Pole, that is.

Fun Facts O It would take 11 Empire State buildings stacked on top of each other to reach the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico!

Fun Facts O Deserts don’t have to be hot. Most of Antarctica is a desert. In fact, there are places in Antarctica where it hasn’t rained for 2 million years!

Fun Facts O Fake neighborhoods were built on top of a Boeing plant in Seattle and a Lockheed Martin plant in California during WWII so that enemy aircraft on bombing raids wouldn’t bomb the plant and stop our fighter plane production.

Fun Facts O The Oceans of the world are really just one huge body of water that covers 75% of the Earth’s surface. O We call them the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans. O The 5 largest seas are: O Coral, Arabian, China, Caribbean, and Mediterranean

Fun Facts O The three longest rivers in the world are: O 1. Nile (4,160 miles) O 2. Amazon (4,000 miles) O 3. Yangtze (3,964 miles)

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