Chapter 1
What is the Nile River?
There is a great dam built on this river, partly because of the river's long history of flooding.
What is the Yangtze River?
The Murry and Darling Rivers combine to form this
What is a drainage basin?
You might hear a warning about piranhas if you took a boat tour in South America in this river.
What is the Nile River?
This is a channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water.
What is a canal?
This is what a visitor might see from a boat on the Nile River.
What are ancient pyramids?
This is what results when a dam is built.
What is a reservoir?
A small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko (high in the Australian mountains) is the location of the Murray River's ____________
What is its source?
This is the river that carries the most water of any river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
On the Congo River, boats switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid this type of danger on the river.
What are rapids?
What is the Yellow River?
What is that it is considered holy by the Hindu people?
This is why being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult.
What is that the river changes all the time?
This is the type of environment that the Amazon River flows through.
What is a lush rainforest?
These are places on a river where the water moves swiftly and violently.
What are rapids?
A key feature that the Nile River and Yellow River share is this.
What is that they both provide irrigation to surrounding fields?
What is a civilization?
This is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
What is "Mark Twain?"
What are migrating birds?
The River Niger was key to the growth of this.
What is the city of Timbuktu in Africa?
This is the land at the edge of a river.
What is a riverbank?
Land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Who was Samuel Langhorne Clemens? (His pen name will also be accepted.)
This means to move to a different place.
This important Social Studies topic is called, "Coffee: What Mrs. Jaques Orders at Starbucks." (What is the exact name of her drink?)
What is a vanilla sweet cream cold brew?