Multiple Choice
Vocab - definition
Vocab - word
Rivers 1
Rivers 2
100
What wildlife might you see when visiting the Mackenzie River in the Northern Hemisphere?
a) camels
b) orangutans
c) pandas
d) migrating birds
d) migrating birds
100
To move to a different place
Migrate
100
Mouth
The place where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water
100
A key feature the Nile and Yellow River share is that they
provide irrigation to surrounding fields
100
The Ob River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean, have special dangers when navigating through it. What are the two dangers?
Freezing temperatures and ice
200
Which statement about the Amazon River is correct?
a) It is the longest river in North America.
b) It is has the largest dam in Asia.
c) It carries the most water of any river in the world.
d) It has the largest waterfall of any river in the world.
c) It carries the most water of any river in the world.
200
A channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water
Canal
200
Rapids
A place on a river where the water moves swiftly and violently
200
The Yellow River takes its name from the
silt that flows in the river
200
The River Niger was key to the growth of what city in Africa?
Timbuktu
300
The Rhine River and the Danube River share this feature.
a) They are both landlocked.
b) They both have their mouths at the Atlantic Ocean.
c) They both connect to the Baltic and Black Seas through canals.
d) They both have their source in the central part of Europe.
d) They both have their source in the central part of Europe.
300
A buildup of sand formed by the movement of flowing water
Sandbar
300
Landlocked
Cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land
300
On this river, people have built a great dam, in part because of the river's long history of flooding
The Yangtze River
300
Boats traveling on the Congo River switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid this type of danger on the river
Rapids
400
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult because
a) there are many rapids in the river.
b) the river changes all the time.
c) the river is often frozen solid.
d) the river has very few tributaries.
B.) The river changes all the time
400
Watering of crops by moving water from a well, a river, or a lake to a place where it does not rain enough to grow crops
Irrigation
400
Delta
Land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river
400
The Yukon River played a big part in this era of history
The search for gold in the Klondike
400
When a dam is built, what is the result of it?
A reservoir
500
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about these people.
a) the merchants in riverside markets along the Niger River
b) the people who built castles along the Rhine and Danube Rivers
c) river pilots along the Mississippi River
d) the workers who built the pyramids along the Nile River
c) river pilots along the Mississippi River
500
A society, or group of people, with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government
Civilization
500
Tributary
A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river
500
What man-made structure could you see from a boat on the Nile River?
Ancient Pyramids
500
The Murray and Darling Rivers combine to form this
A drainage basin