Wooden totem pole

Cheetah

Angel Falls

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Pistol shrimp

Millipede

Burj Khalifa

Tortoiseshell butterfly

Mighty blue whale

Answers: 1: Pistol shrimp 2: Mighty blue whale 3: Angel Falls 4: Mosquito 5: The Rio Carnival 6: Tortoiseshell butterfly 7: Cheetah 8: Burj Khalifa

Mosquito

The Rio Carnival

A whirlwind tour of the globe, seeking out the highest, deepest, widest, narrowest,

coolest, hottest, scariest, smelliest... things on the planet. What’s the longest place name? The oldest vomit? It’s all here!

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Which of the things on this page is the world’s....

... loudest animal?

... biggest animal?

... highest waterfall?

... deadliest insect?

... biggest party?

... highest flying insect?

... fastest mammal?

... tallest building?

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PAGE 1Bootlace worm

Elephant seal

MONSTER MAZECan you navigate around these weird creatures to the bottom of the ocean?

START HERE...

Beware!A gulper eel lives here and can swallow things much

bigger than itself because of its immense, gaping hungry

jaws... swim back!

Swim away!The colossal squid can grow as long as a school bus. It’s strong, beak-

like mouth can cut through steel cable.

Colossal squid have the world’s biggest eyeballs

– each one is bigger than a dinner plate.

Colossal squid grab prey with

their 8 arms and 2 long tentacles.

Right this way!Some rockfish, living about

9800ft below the ocean surface, are more than 200 years old!

FOLLOW SOME OLD AGE WISDOM... GO

THIS WAY!

Not this way! For its size (it’s no

bigger than a pencil case), the scary little

fangtooth has the largest teeth in the ocean. It can’t even close its mouth, its teeth are so big!

Wrong turn! The vampyroteuthis

infernalis – which translates to the ‘vampire squid from hell’ slowly ‘flies’ through

the water looking around with huge glowing red or blue

eyes. Lucky it is only as long as a ruler!

Come on through!Some stingrays are so tame

they will come right up to you. They don’t actually ‘sting’, but they do have a pointy barb under their tail that they use

for protection.

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More people have walked on the Moon than been to the deepest part of the ocean:

Number of people who have walked on the Moon

Number who have been to the deepest part of the ocean

DID YOU KNOW?

...YOU MADE IT! YOU REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN!

MUM ALWAYS TELLS ME TO EAT WITH MY MOUTH OPEN!

The Hahnenkamm Downhill Race in Austria is

the scariest downhill ski course on the planet. It takes less than

two hair-raising minutes for the world’s best skiers to zoom down the extremely steep and difficult course at up to 140km/h (87mph)!

U N I T E D S T A T E S

O F A M E R I C A

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R U S S I A N F E D E R A T I O N

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MEXICO

ARGENTINA

BOLIVIA

ALGERIA

MALI NIGER

EGYPT

CHAD

LIBYA

SUDAN

IRAN

ETHIOPIA

INDIA

KAZAKHSTANM O N G O L I A

GREENLAND

COLOMBIAVENEZUELA

PERU

PARAGUAY

CHILE URUGUAY

NEWZEALAND

ANGOLA

ZAMBIA

NIGERIA

KENYA

TURKEY

IRAQ

SAUDIARABIA

SPAIN

PHILIPPINES

MALAYSIA

I N D O N E S I AECUADOR

FIJI

KIRIBATI

MARSHALLISLANDSFEDERATED STATES

OF MICRONESIA

NAURU

SOLOMONISLANDS

PALAU

PAPUANEW

GUINEA TUVALU

VANUATU

TONGA

SAMOA

CUBA

MALAWI

NAMIBIA

SOUTH AFRICA

CAPEVERDE

MAURITANIA

COMOROS

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SWEDEN FINLAND

ICELAND

UKRAINE

BELARUSPOLAND

GREECE

SYRIA

YEMEN

OMAN

NORTHKOREA

SOUTHKOREA JAPAN

THAILAND

UNION OFMYANMAR

(BURMA)

LAOS

CAMBODIA VIETNAM

BRUNEI

EASTTIMOR

SINGAPORE

PORTUGAL

IRELAND

FRANCE

MALTA

ITALY

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

HAITI

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BOTSWANA

LESOTHO

MOZAMBIQUE

SWAZILAND

ZIMBABWE

GHANA

TOGO

BENIN

BURKINAFASO

CAMEROON

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GUINEAGUINEA-BISSAU

LIBERIA

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ESTONIA

LATVIA

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GEORGIA

MOLDOVA

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BULGARIA

CROATIA

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HUNGARY

MACEDONIA

MONTENEGRO

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Draw the scariest thing you’ve

ever seen...

Draw the TALLEST thing you’ve ever seen...

WEATHER WATCHEXTREME DOODLINGDraw the reddest thing you’ve ever seen...

What’s big, red, cumbersome and the best-known symbol of London?

London’s old red buses look top-heavy, but they can lean at more than 40 degrees and not tip over.

Draw the smelliest thing you’ve ever seen...

QUICK, I CAN’T HOLD MY BREATH MUCH LONGER…

Durian is a tropical fruit that is said to ‘taste like heaven and smell like hell’. Some people say it smells like sewage or vomit. It does, however,

taste delicious!

The Spring Temple Buddha is the world’s tallest statue and so

huge that its toenails are higher than a person.

Help the weatherman show the extreme weather forecast...

Finish the end of the sentences in the weather forecast circles below by drawing a line between them and the correct word endings on the map:

Arizona has the world’s most sun_ _ _ _ _

Venezuela has the world’s most

light_ _ _ _

–light

–ning

–in

Columbia has the world’s

most ra_ _

Yuma, in Arizona, is the

sunniest place in the world The Sun shines for 4174

hours every year– about 94% of daylight hours!

American national park ranger

Roy Sullivan was hit by

lightning seven times

between 1942 and 1977 –

and survived them all.

Answers: 1: Rain 2: Lightning 3: Sunlight

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DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

Q&A

Answers:

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Q5: Who would win the gold, silver and bronze medal in a race? The gold medal is awarded to....

The silver medal is awarded to....

The bronze medal is awarded to....

The fastest mammal the Cheetah runs at 112km/h

The fastest fish the Sailfish swims at 110km/h

The Australian tiger beetle is the fastest insect at 8.96km/h

Usain Bolt is the fastest person and runs at 44.72km/h

The fastest bird in level flight is the Spine-tailed swift at 171km/h

Q1: Which place has the most sunshine?

BrazilArizona, USA

Clue: The answer is in the Weather Watch activity on page 3.

A:

Q1: Arizona, USA Q2: Clams Q3: There is no right or wrong answer to this question – it’s up to you! Q4: Giant stone heads Q5: Gold: Spine-tailed swift, Silver: Cheetah, Bronze: Sailfish

Q2: Which is the oldest?

ClamsGiant tortoise

Clue: Some clams living off

Iceland were sitting around

on the bottom of the ocean

when William Shakespeare

was writing his famous

plays over 400 years ago.

Clue: Jonathan is a

Seychelles giant tortoise,

and is the oldest living land

animal. He was born in 1832

– so he’s much older than

even your grandparents.

A:

Q4: Which is the heaviest head?

Colossal heads

Clue: The Olmec people of Mexico were famous for

building massive stone heads which are up to 3 metres high.

Giant stone heads

Clue: Found on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, these giant stone heads are

up to 10 metres high and have about the same width

as the Colossal heads.

A:

Q3: Which competition do you

think is the craziest?

Extreme Ironing

Chess Boxing

Two contestants play a match lasting 11 rounds. In each

round they play 4 minutes of chess and then box against each other for 2 minutes.

Participants take an ironing board to a remote location and iron clothes. Clothes

have been ironed while parachuting, scuba diving, mountain climbing, skiing

and canoeing.

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