North American Rivers
What three major rivers are in North America?
Mackenzie, Yukon, and Mississippi
What are the South American rivers we learned about?
Amazon, Orinoco (Llanos), and Parana Rivers
What two major rivers are in Australia?
Darling and Murray Rivers
What rivers are in Asia that we have learned about?
Ganges, Indus, Ob, Yellow, and Yangtze rivers
Central Europe is landlocked. What does landlocked mean?
Completely surrounded by land, cut off from the seacoast.
The Ohio and Missouri Rivers are tributaries for the Mississippi Rivers. What is a tributary?
A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river.
On what river would you need to worry about piranhas?
Amazon River
What river's mouth empties into the Mediterranean Sea?
Nile River
What river is considered holy to Hindus?
Ganges River
What two major rivers in Europe have we studied?
Rhine, Danube
You are hiking along the Mackenzie river. What wildlife will you see?
A. hippo
b. camel
c. migrating birds
d. penguins
C. Migrating Birds
What is the longest river in the world?
Amazon River
What river starts in the Australian highlands?
Murray River
If you were sailing down the Nile River, what could you see?
A. The Great Wall of China
B. Angel Falls
C. Castles
D. The Ancient Pyramids
D. The Ancient Pyramid
What can you see when sailing on the European rivers?
a. Pyramids
b. Castles
c. Great Wall of China
d. Both states Alabama and Mississippi
Castles
Why is it difficult to be a river pilot on the Mississippi?
The river is constantly changing.
What does the Amazon River flow through?
rainforests
What is it called when two or more rivers combine like in the Murray and Darling Rivers?
Drainage Basin
What two rivers are used mostly to irrigate surrounding farmlands?
Nile River and Yellow River
A canal links the Danube and the Rhine. What is a canal?
a channel dug by people to connect two bodies of water
What river played a large part in the search for gold in the Klondike?
Yukon River
What river in South America has the Angel Falls, the largest waterfall in the world?
Orinoco River
The Niger River was key to the growth of
a. City of Timbuktu in Africa
b. Egypt
c. The Hindu Religion
d. the gold rush in the Klondike
a. City of Timbuktu
This river has a dam because of its long history of flooding.
Why are the Rhine and Danube rivers so important to central Europe?
These rivers are important for trade because central Europe is landlocked.