Rivers Bring Life to Farms and Cities
Rivers Make Our Lives Better
Vocabulary
Dangers Along Rivers
Rivers and Trade
100
The name of the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
100
The country that the Indus River can be found.
What is Pakistan?
100
a. Another name for a river's origin is __________. b. The word that means "where the river ends and empties into another river or sea".
What is source? mouth?
100
Name 3 important things that a river boat captain would have to watch out for while navigating down a river.
What is ice, fallen logs, waterfalls?
100
The two main rivers in Australia.
What is the Murray and Darling Rivers?
200
The Yellow River is located in this country.
What is China?
200
The country the Ganges River is located.
What is India?
200
The definition for drainage basin.
What is "the area with small streams that flow into a river"?
200
Two rivers that we studied and compared for river dangers were the ......(name the river and the continent it is on.)
What is Mississippi (North America) and Ob (Asia)?
200
The 2 main rivers we studied that are in Europe.
What is Rhine and Danube?
300
The Yellow River is good for farmers because .....
What is carries yellow colored silt which makes the land very fertile for growing crops?
300
The other river that stars with a "Y" that is located in China. (Hint: Not the Yellow River)
What is the Yangtze River?
300
The triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river.
What is delta?
300
The way that people solved the problem that waterfalls caused for ships on the Congo River.
What is built a railroad to go around the waterfall?
300
a. The Volga River is located in this country. b. The people build canals to connect the river with the sea in order to __________________________.
What is Russia? What is to help them trade goods with other countries.
400
Rivers help bring life to cities and farms by .....(2 things)
What is providing drinking water and irrigation?
400
The river that is considered sacred by the followers of the Hindu religion.
What is The Ganges?
400
Where Australia grow its oranges, melons, and grapes (2 words).
What is orchard and vineyard?
400
The river men traveedl on to discover gold in Canada in 1897.
What is the Yukon River?
400
a. The Niger River is located on the continent of ___________. b. Timbuktu is a city that is located along this river and has a ________________ along its banks that serve as trading centers.
What is Africa? What is bazaars or marketplaces?
500
Name 1 of the 2 deserts in Africa.
What is Sahara or Kalahari.
500
The reason why a dam is being built on the Yangtze River.
What is to help control the river from flooding?
500
A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river is called ___________. Colorado is an example of a state that is completed surrounded by land. Another word for this is________.
What is tributary? What is landlocked?
500
The Amazon is located on the continent of ___________________. It is considered to be the ______ longest river in the world. From above, it looks like 2 rivers flowing side by side because ______________.
What is South America? What is 2nd? What is gray soil particles and another carries light brown soil, so until they mix completely, it looks like 2 tributaries flowing beside each other.
500
The 2 other rivers we studied that are on the continent of South America. Name 1 other river in Canada.
What is Orinoco and Parana River? What is Mackenzie or Klondike?
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