Canyon

How the Grand Canyon Came to Be In the middle of the desert lived a very curious wolf named Tico. Tico had a very good friend named Sandy. Tico and Sandy did everything together. There favorite thing to do was find bones, then hide them deep in the ground. Tico and Sandy were known to be good at finding rare and big bones. Sandy and Tico would often switch task of who was to find the bone and who was to clean the bone. When it was time to hide the bone they would agree on a hiding place, then one would be a lookout to make sure no other animals in the kingdom would know where they hid the bones and claim them as their own. After about a year or two, other wolves caught on to where Tico and Sandy were hiding their bones and started to steal…

Did you know, that the rock found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon might be around 2 billion years old? Well the grand canyon is one of the best arrays of geological history in the world. It’s home to many different types of animals. It also hosts about 5 million tourists a year. Archaeologists are still not sure how it was formed. The Grand Canyon is considered one of the seven wonders of the world; it reveals millions of years of geological history. The Grand Canyon has a lot of…

90% of all people who visit the Grand Canyon often visit the South Rim. While the north Rim is 250 miles away and is more remote. The Grand Canyon has many artificial lakes formed from the dams on the Salt and Colorado rivers. The park protects many animals and geological evidence from the rock layers. One quarter of the Grand Canyon is occupied by the Indians, the most in any state, by far. Some of the tribes consists of the Navajo, Apache, Hopi. The canyon has a few national monuments,…

Grand Canyon “Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.” (Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil) This quote explains how beautiful the Grand Canyon is perfectly I think. Let’s look past how breath taking the Grand Canyon is for a moment and dig deeper in how it really became to be interesting landform it is now. So let us…

Science: Landforms Created by: Amit Abhay (Ăbh-ī) Halder Grand Canyon Location: Northern Arizona, United States How was it formed: The Colorado Plateau began to uplift, and the Colorado River maintained its course. Between 5 – 20 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau rose a total of four kilometers. Meanwhile, the Colorado River cut through the layers of rock, which eventually formed the walls of the Grand Canyon. Facts about the Grand Canyon: Many consider it to be one of the seven wonders of…

Grand Canyon Importance The Grand Canyon is a huge tourist attraction. Thousands of people visit every day and millions every year. The majority of them consider it one of the seven world wonders. It’s not hard to see why because the Grand Canyon is almost overwhelming in size. The Grand Canyon is a 277 mile long and 18 mile deep canyon in Arizona. The Grand Canyon has stood as one of nature’s most impressive sights for many years. The Grand Canyon has many important species of animals. There…

History of the Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon is one of the most widely recognized geological landscapes in the world. Carved by the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon is a feat of geological design. To truly appreciate this landscape one must understand the history of its formation. On August 13, 1869, John Wesley Powell led the first known expedition through the Grand Canyon. With this expedition, Powell and his crew journeyed into the great unknown. When looking into the…

Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park - one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. View from the South Rim. The longstanding scientific consensus has been that the canyon was created by the Colorado River over a…

Have you ever though about rather Providence Canyon should become a national Park??There is a lot of history behind the Canyon.The Grand Canyon is know as the Little Grand Canyon.The grand canyon is know from it's features.Say if an animal there you never saw before you would like to see and you would have the opportunity to see that once in a life time animal.The Canyon should be considered a National Park that would be so fun.It would be enjoying and a World class experience.Based on…

A steep sided canyon imprinted the river of Colorado is called The Grand Canyon. It is located in the state of Arizona, United States. It is 446 km long, 29 km in width and has a depth of about 1800 meters. When Colorado Plateau was uplifted and the earth was eroded by Colorado Plateau, nearly two billions of geological history was being exposed. It is considered as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It includes side canyons and many plateaus surround it. Generally, the…