WR 1
The Nile River is located on which continent?
Africa
When a dam is built, what happens?
a reservoir
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote about these people
river pilots along the Mississippi River
Boats traveling on the Congo River switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid this type of danger?
rapids
a stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river
tributary
What could you see from a boat on the Nile River?
Ancient Pyramids
An unsusual feature of the Ganges River is that
it is considered holy by Hindu people
Special dangers in navigating the Ob River, which empties into Artic Ocean, are
freezing temperatures and ice
The Yukon River played a big part in this era of history
the search for gold in the Klondike
a society or group of people with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government
civilization
The Yellow River takes its name from the
silt that flows in the river
The Murray and Darling Rivers combine to form a
drainage basin
You might hear a warning about piranhas if you were taking a boat tour of this river in South America
the Amazon River
The Rhine River and the Danuabe River share which feature?
They both have their source in the central part of Europe
a buildup of sand formed by the movement of flowing water
sandbar
A key feature that the Nile River and the Yellow River share is that they
provide irrigation to surrounding fields.
For the Murray River, a small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko, high in the Australian mountains, is the location of the river's
source
The Amazon River flows through which type of surrounding environment?
a lush rainforest
The River Niger was key to the growth of the
city of Timbuktu in Africa
the place where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water
mouth
On this river, people have built a great dam, in part because of the river's long history of flooding
the Yangtze River
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult because
the river changes all the time.
A visitor to the Mackenzie River in the Northern Hemisphere might see which type of wildlife?
Migrating birds
watering of crops by moving water from a well, river, or a lake to a place where it does not rain enough to grow crops
irrigation
land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river
delta