Background Info
Name of European Explorer who "discovered" the river.
Who is Hernando De Soto.
Number of states in the upper Missisisippi river?
What is five states?
How many states are in the middle Mississippi River?
What is 2 states.
Number of people that rely on the Mississippi River for water.
The elevation of the river at the source rounded to the nearest hundreds place.
What is 1,500 feet above sea level.
The country that the European Explorer was from who "discovered" the river.
What is Spain?
The major tributary that the upper Mississippi ends at.
The Missouri river.
The two rivers that border the middle Mississippi.
The number of million acres the Mississippi River delta is.
What is three?
The number of states the river goes through.
What is ten?
The person who named Lake Itasca
Who was Henry Schoolcraft?
What is St. Louis?
The lower Mississippi starts at this state:
What is Illinois?
The percentage of water fowl in North America that migrate over the delta.
What is 70 %?
The length of the river rounded to the nearest hundreds place.
What is 2,300 miles long?
Lake Itasca comes from these two latin words?
What are veritas and caput?
The state that Lake Itasca is in.
What is Minnesota?
The river delta is in this state.
What is Louisiana?
What is a birds foot?
The mouth of the river goes into what ocean?
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
The river delta was formed how many years ago?
What is approximately 4,500 years?
The average depth of the source of the river.
What is 25-35 feet
The lower Mississippi river starts at a town called ______________.
What is Cairo?
Buildups of silt and sediment that are deposited over time at the mouth of the river.
What are lobes?