Vocabulary
land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a rive
What is a Delta?
a place on a river where the water moves swiftly and violently
What is a Rapids?
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
The Murray and Darling Rivers combine to form this:
What is a drainage basin?
The Yellow River takes its name from this:
What is Silt?
cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land
What is Landlocked?
a society, or group of people, with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government
What is a civilization?
Special dangers in navigating the Ob River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean, are
Freezing Temperatures and Ice
An unusual feature of the Ganges River is that it is considered to be what by the local people:
What is holy?
You could see the following from a boat in the Nile River
What are the Pyramids?
a channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water
What is a Canal?
the place where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water
What is the river's Mouth?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about these people.
When a dam is built, the following structure forms as a result:
What is a reservoir?
This is the continent where the Nile River is located.
What is Africa?
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?
to move to a different place
What is to Migrate?
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult because
the river changes all the time.
5. On this river, people have built a great dam, in part because of the river’s long history of flooding
What is the Yangtze River?
This river played a big part in the search for gold in the Klondike.
What is the Yukon River?
a buildup of sand formed by the movement of flowing water
What is a Sandbar?
a stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river
What is a Tributary?
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 Source?
A key feature that the Nile River and the Yellow River share
What is irrigation?
The Amazon River Flows through this environment:
What is a Rainforest?