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Heritage Sites - Rank these with your partner. Put the best at the top. Great Barrier Reef Mount Fuji Grand Canyon The Pyramids Panda Sanctuaries Machu Picchu Vatican City Great Wall of China - English

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Heritage Sites - Rank these with your partner. Put the best at the top.

Great Barrier Reef

Mount Fuji

Grand Canyon

The Pyramids

Panda Sanctuaries

Machu Picchu

Vatican City

Great Wall of China

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Students can write their own answers after looking up the Internet for information on the sites.

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World Heritage
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Chapter 4.3: World Heritage - Warming Up! [Page 158]

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Balbharati English Kumarbharati [English] Standard 10 Maharashtra State Board
Chapter 4.3 World Heritage
Warming Up! | Q 5 | Page 158

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