Vocabulary
Rivers Part 1
Rivers Part 2
Rivers Part 3
Miscellaneous
100
A large structure usually made of concrete or earth used to hold back flowing water.
What is a dam?
100
The name of river #1.
What is the Niobrara River?
100
The name of river #3.
What is the Missouri River?
100
The name of river #7.
What is the Platte River?
100
What are some of the benefits that Nebraska’s rivers provide?
What is water for irrigation, recreation, electricity, and transportation?
200
Using canals and ditches to water farmland.
What is irrigation?
200
The name of river #4.
What is the North Loup River?
200
The name of river #6.
What is the South Loup River?
200
The name of river #5.
What is the North Platte River?
200
How much of the water in the Ogallala Aquifer is found under Nebraska?
What is 2/3's?
300
A layer of rocks or soil under the ground that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
300
The name of river #9.
What is the Little Blue River?
300
The name of river #8.
What is the Republican River?
300
The name of river #10.
What is the Big Blue River?
300
How did the Platte River help those traveling on the Oregon Trail?
What is it provided water and good roadbeds for their wagons, and it guided them west?
400
A lake created by building a dam in a river.
What is a reservoir?
400
The name of river # 2.
What is the Elkhorn River?
400
What are Nebraska’s two largest rivers?
What is the Missouri River and Platte River?
400
What is a nickname for the Missouri River and why?
What is The Big Muddy because it is so brown and muddy.
400
The biggest reservoir in Nebraska that hosts some of the country's largest sail boating and windsurfing competitions.
What is Lake McConaughy?