Rivers in Asia
This river in China is called this because of the color of its silt.
What is the the Yellow River?
This river is home to an amazing number of animals, reptiles and insects.
What is the Amazon River?
This is the longest river in North America.
What is the Mississippi River?
The process of moving water through a ditch from a river to a dry area in order to water crops is called this.
What is irrigation?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
This river is called Mother Ganges because it brings life to dry areas in India.
What is the Ganges River?
The Amazon River has many tributaries.The area of land in which a river and its tributaries drain is called its___________.
What is a drainage basin?
This River in Canada is where thousands of people traveled in search of gold.
What is the Yukon River?
People often settle near rivers because they would be very thirsty if they did not have this.
What is drinking water?
This is the second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon?
This river in Asia empties into the Arctic Ocean and often has ice as you travel north.
What is the Ob River?
This river is like the Amazon River but is to the north in Venezuela where you can find the largest waterfall-Angel Falls.
What is the Orinoco River?
This is what you call the place a river runs into the ocean.
What is the mouth?
People in India move close to the Ganges River because they believe it is holy and it is part of the Hindu __________.
What is religion?
This is a lake made by a dam to hold or reserve water for drinking or crops.
What is a reservoir?
The silt from the Ganges River builds up and forms a triangular piece of land at the mouth of the river called this.
What is a delta?
Some countries like Paraguay depend on rivers because they are this, which means surrounded by land on all sides.
What is land locked?
The Mackenzie River begins in the Rocky Mountains and the beginning of a river is called this.
What is the source?
People live by rivers because they offer them a type of this, which is usually by boat.
What is transportation?
These are two rivers that are tributaries of the Mississippi.
What are the Ohio and the Missouri Rivers?
This river has its source in Tibet and India and is one of the longest in Asia.
What is the Indus River?
This river has the largest drainage basin and carries more water than any other in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
A large wall built to hold back water from a river is called this.
What is a dam?
Some rivers are used to carry goods from one city to another in order for them to do this.
What is trade?
A man made river or channel is called this.
What is a canal?