Niagara Falls
Water
Three waterfalls on the border between Canada and the United States.
Niagara Falls are three waterfalls next to each other on the Niagara river, which flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The largest, the Horseshoe Falls, is about 57 metres high.
The falls came into being at the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. Part of the water is led away through tunnels to make electricity.
- waterfalls
- 3
- high
- 57 m
- years old
- 12,000
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The falls are slowly moving upstream, because the water wears the rock away.
- 2
At night more water goes to the power stations, so the falls are less full while the visitors sleep.
- 3
In 1901 Annie Edson Taylor, a teacher of 63, went over the falls in a barrel. She survived.
Question 1 of 2
Between which two countries do the falls lie?
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It is in Canada.
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