Waterfall wonder

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Waterfall wonder

• By Joseph McCollum

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how big the body of water is

• Niagara falls 17 square
  feet
• Yosemite falls 511 square miles
• Machete falls 180 square miles
• Shoshone falls 12 square miles
• Multnomah falls 21 square miles

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height

• Niagara falls 86
  feet
• Yosemite falls 2425
  feet
• Malachite falls 1.600 2.450
• Shoshone falls 212
  feet
• Multnomah falls 542 feet

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Largest to smallest

• Yosemite falls
• Multnomah falls
• Malachite falls
• Shoshone falls
• Niagara falls

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Niagara falls

• There are differing theories as to the origin of
  the name of the falls. According to Iroquoian
  scholar Bruce Trigger, "Niagara" is derived from
  the name given to a branch of the locally
  residing native Neutral Confederacy, who are
  described as being called the "Niagagarega"
  people on several late 17th century French maps
  of the area.

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Yosemite falls

• Yosemite Falls is the highest measured waterfall
  in North America. Located in Yosemite National
  Park in the Sierra Nevada of California, it is a
  major attraction in the park, especially in late
  spring when the water flow is at its peak.

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Malachite falls

• The valley of the 1 contains a fair amount of
  waterfalls. The river heads in a series of large
  lakes Big Heart Lake, Angeline Lake, and Otter
  Lake- which form spectacular waterfalls as they
  plunge down to Delta Lake. On the valley walls
  downstream of Delta Lake, are found even more
  waterfalls.

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Shoshone falls

• Shoshone Falls has existed at least since the end
  of the last ice age, when the Bonneville Flood
  carved much of the Snake River canyon and
  surrounding valleys. It is a total barrier to the
  upstream movement of fish. The falls were the
  upper limit of sturgeon, and spawning runs of
  salmon and steelhead could not pass the falls.
  Yellowstone cutthroat trout lived above the falls
  in the same ecological niche as Rainbow Trout
  below it. Due to this marked difference, the
  World Wide Fund for Nature used Shoshone Falls as
  the boundary between the Upper Snake and the
  Columbia Unglaciated freshwater ecoregions.

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Multnomah falls

• Multnomah Falls is a waterfall on the Oregon side
  of the Columbia River Gorge, located east of
  Troutdale, between Corbett and , along the
  Historic Columbia River Highway. The falls drops
  in two major steps, split into an upper falls of
  542 feet (165 m) and a lower falls of 69 feet (21
  m), with a gradual 9 foot (3 m) drop in elevation
  between the two, so the total height of the
  waterfall is conventionally given as 620 feet
  (189 m). Multnomah Falls is the tallest waterfall
  in the State of Oregon. It is credited by a sign
  at the site of the falls as the third tallest
  year-round waterfall in the United States.