Vocabulary
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?
A buildup of sand formed by the movement of flowing water
What is a sandbar?
You might hear a warning about piranhas if you were taking a boat tour of this river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is an especially hard job because
The river changes all the time.
A visitor to the Mackenzie River in the Northern Hemisphere might see this wildlife.
What are migrating birds?
A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river.
What is a Tributary?
A channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water
What is a canal?
You could see this these from a boat on the Nile River.
What are ancient pyramids?
Special danger in navigating the OB River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean.
What are freezing temperatures and ice?
The River Niger was key to the growth of this city.
What if the city of Timbuktu in Africa?
A society, or group of people with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government
What is civilization?
A place on a river where the water moves swiftly and violently.
What are rapids?
This river is located on the continent of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
The Yellow River takes its name from this.
What is silt that flows in the river?
The Rhine River and the Danube River share this feature.
What rivers both have their source in the central part of Europe?
The place where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water
What is the mouth?
To move to a different place
What is migrate?
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 this.
What is the source?
The Yukon River played a big part in this era of history.
What is the search for gold in the Klondike?
Cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land
What is landlocked?
Land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about these people.
Who were the river pilots along the Mississippi River?
This is an unusual feature of the Ganges River.
What is considered holy by Hindu people?
Boats traveling on the Congo River switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid this type of danger on the river.
What are rapids?