Geography
28. This river is located in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
25. A place on a river where the water moves swiftly and violently?
What are rapids?
2. Silt that flows into this river gives it its name.
What is the Yellow River?
17. Timbuktu relied on this river for growth.
What is the Niger River?
18. What is the word for land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river?
What is a delta?
16. Both of these rivers have their source in the central part of Europe.
What are the Rhine and Danube Rivers?
9. Mark Twain wrote about river pilots. Being a pilot on this river is difficult because the river changes all the time!
What is the Mississippi River?
12. This river carries the most water of any river in the world!
What is the Amazon River?
23. Watering 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?
15. This river played a big part in the search for gold in the Klondike!
What is the Yukon River?
1. I would see a vast rainforest if I was on a boat on either of these rivers.
What are the Nile River and the Amazon River?
14. To avoid rapids, boats traveling on this river switch their cargo to railroad cars!
What is the Congo River?
6. This river is considered holy by Hindu people.
What is the Ganges River?
19. What is a stream or smaller river that flows into a large river?
What is a tributary?
5. A reservoir is the result of a what?
What is a dam?
21. Cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land.
What is landlocked?
10. Because it empties into the Arctic Ocean, freezing temperatures and ice make navigating this river very difficult.
What is the Ob River?
4. The Yangtze River had this built to prevent flooding.
What is great dam to prevent the long history of flooding.
22. A channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water.
What is a canal?
13. You might see migrating birds if on this river in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Mackenzie River?
8. The source of this river is the small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko, high in the Australian mountains.
What is the Murray River?
11. If taking a tour on the Amazon River, you might be warned about these dangerous animals!
What are piranhas?
3. Both of these rivers provide transportation to Europe.
What are the Nile and Yellow Rivers?
20. What does it mean to move to a different place?
What is migrate?
7. A drainage basin is created when these two rivers combine together.
The Murray and Darling Rivers.