…. the largest barrier reef in the world is in Queensland, Australia? With an area of approximately 340 square kilometres (the equivalent to 229 cities in the state of São Paulo), it is formed by thousands of separate reefs.

… the highest waterfall in the world, the Angel Falls in Venezuela, is 979 metres tall? The height is equivalent to 25 of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statues piled one on top of the other.

… the deepest cave is the Veryovkina in Georgia? The record location was discovered in 2018 when a group of Russians did a 12-day expedition along its 2,212 metres of depth.

… the Andes mountain range in South America is the largest in the world? The mountains stretch along almost eight thousand kilometres across seven countries (Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela).

… the biggest tree in Brazil was discovered by researchers in 2019? It is 82 metres tall (the equivalent to a 26-storey building) and is located in the sanctuary of large trees of the angelins species in the Parú State Forest in Pará state. The tallest tree in the world is 115 metres high. It is a sequoia in California in the United States.

Sources: G1, Great Barrier Reef, and Guinness World Records

QUESTIONS

1) What is the height of the tallest tree in the world?
a) 82 metres
b) 979 metres
c) 2,212 metres
d) 115 metres

2) Which of the places mentioned in the text would you like to get to know? Why?

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