Rivers
These bring life to civilization.
What are rivers?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about these people.
What are River pilots of the Mississippi.
This river was used to transport rock to build the pyramids.
What is the Nile river?
This technology allows 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
What is Irrigation?
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult for what reason?
Because the river changes often?
The Nile river is the most important river to this country.
What is Egypt.
You might hear a warning about piranhas if you were taking a boat tour of this river in South America.
What is the Amazon.
The owners of castles on the Danube and Rhine river, exacted these from merchants using the river.
What are tolls?
A lake created by people to store water.
What is a reservoir?
These special dangers in navigating the Ob River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean are ____ and freezing temperatures.
What is the yellow river?
This river is considered Holy to the Hindu People.
What is the Ganges River?
This river is the longest river in Europe
What is The Volga?
A structure that blocks a flowing river and allows water to fill in behind it
to move to a different place.
What is migration?
Land set aside for cattle or horses to graze.
What is a pasture?
This river winds through Europe and features many castles.
What is the Rhine?
What is the Danube?
These two rivers form the "Fertile crescent" in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates.
This channel dug by people is used to connect two bodies of water.
What is a canal?
An area cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land.
What is landlocked?
The Murray and Darling Rivers combine and drain the water from the land , forming a________ ____________.
What is a Drainage Basin.
society, or group of people, with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government.
What is civilization?
This river served to help exploration of the north and a search for Gold.
On this river, people have built a great dam, in part because of the river’s long history of flooding.
What is the Yangtzee river.
For the Murray River, a small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko, high in the Australian mountains, is the location of the river’s
What is the soruce?