US Rivers
What is the main river running down the middle of the US to the Gulf of Mexico
What is the MIssissippi River
Thin in width
What is young
This keeps the river within its banks.
What is a natural levee.
Which stage of a river usually has the fastest speed?
What is young.
What was the big river that flooded
What is the Mississippi River
What river separates New Jersey with Pennsylvania?
What is the Delaware
Lots of oxbow lakes and wide meanders
What is Old
This is the area that is inundated with water when there is too much.
What is a floodplain.
What part of the river is the fastes on a turn?
What is the outside.
Why did the midwest get so much rain?
A jet Stream that wasn't moving.
What river joins the Mississippi River from the east and goes through the town of Cincinati?
What is the Ohio
Waterfalls disappearing and meanders developing.
What is Mature
This is a stream that runs parallel to the main river in an old river stage.
What is a yahoo streem or bayou.
What part of the river is the fastest in the straightaway? Middle or outside?
Wjhat is Middle
What saved St. Louis
What is a levee breaking on the other side of the river
What river joins the Mississippi River from the northwest at the city of St. Louis?
What is the Missouri
This stage is fouund at the mouth of a river.
What is Old
This forms at the base of a mountain on the flat plain as the river slows down.
What is an alluvial fan.
Where is the river the fastest Top, half-way down or at the bottom?
What is the Top
What saved Prairie de Rouche
What was blowing up the levee just north of the town to create a cushion of water against the oncoming water on the floodplain.
The Red River is located in what state?
What is Mississippi.
The Red River on our Campti topographic map
What is Mature.
This is a feature that forms as a river empties into a larger body of water.
What is a delta
As the gradient gets smaller, what happends to the speed of the river?
What is decreases.
What did they do with the town of Valmeyer?
What was moved it on top of the hill