Famous World Rivers
Clue: This African river is the longest in the world and flowed through ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
The starting point or beginning of a river, usually found high up in mountains or hills.
A narrow strip of water that connects two much larger bodies of water, like the one at Gibraltar.
What is a strait?
The imaginary line that circles the middle of the Earth like a belt, dividing it into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This massive river is the longest in the United States and flows south into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
Running through a massive South American rainforest, this river carries more water than any other river on Earth.
What is the Amazon River?
The place where a river ends its journey and empties into an ocean, lake, or larger river.
What is the mouth?
A deep valley with very steep sides, often carved out by a rushing river over millions of years.
What is a canyon?
The directional tool found on a map that shows North, South, East, and West.
What is a compass rose?
What large scenic canyon did the Colorado River carve out over millions of years?
What is the Grand Canyon?
This major European river flows from Germany's Black Forest all the way to the Black Sea.
What is the Danube River?
A smaller stream or river that flows into and joins a larger main river.
What is a tributary?
A narrow strip of land with water on both sides that connects two larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
Imaginary lines on a map that run east-to-west and measure how far north or south you are from the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and was crucial for early French explorers.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
Often called the "Cradle of Chinese Civilization," this river is also famously known as the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He (or Yellow) River?
A triangle-shaped piece of land made of soil and sand left at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
A body of water partially surrounded by land, but with a wide mouth that opens into the sea—like the famous one in Massachusetts where the Pilgrims landed
What is a bay?
The starting line for measuring longitude, which passes directly through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This river forms a long, natural border between the United States (Texas) and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This sacred river flows across northern India and is named after a Hindu goddess.
What is the Ganges River?
a flat wooded area that is often flooded.
What is a swamp?
A land mass which is surrounded on all sides by water.
What is a waterfall?
Imaginary lines on a map that north and south and measure how far east or west you are from the Prime Meridian.
What are Lines of Longitude?
Wild gold rushers rushed to this Canadian territory's namesake river in 1896 to hunt for treasure.
What is the Yukon River?