The Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.42

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	challenging words:		southward, canyons, erosion, important, area, lower, wherever, part, downhill, gravity, cutting, rocks, working, history, simple, flow
	content words:		Grand Canyon, Colorado River

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The Grand Canyon
By Kathleen W. Redman

¹     Rivers are an important part of any area of land. They carry water to lakes, seas, and oceans. Rain and melted snow and ice collect in rivers and flow all the way to another body of water. How does this happen? The answer is simple - gravity!

²     Rivers flow downhill from where they start. That's part of what water does. Where a river ends is always lower than where it started. Another part of what water does is called erosion. Erosion is the process of rocks and soil being worn down or broken down into smaller pieces by water, wind, or ice. Water in a river wears down the rocks it flows over.

³     Over thousands or millions of years, the water in a river can wear rocks down by hundreds and hundreds of feet. A great example of this is the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The Grand Canyon is one of the biggest canyons in the world. It is more than a mile deep. It is two hundred seventy-seven miles long and as wide as eighteen miles in some places.

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