Rivers & Locations
Which continent is the Nile River located on?
Africa
How does the Yellow River get its name?
From the silt in the river
What is different about the Amazon River?
It carries the MOST water of any river in the world
When a boat travels on the Congo River, they have to switch their cargo to railroad cars so they can avoid what danger on the river?
Rapids! (The rapids are too strong for the cargo to be safe.)
What is a tributary?
A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river
Which river did people build a large dam because that river has a history of flooding?
Yangtze River
The Ob River empties into the Arctic Ocean, what makes this dangerous?
There are freezing temperatures, and ice.
Which era in history did the Yukon River play a large part in?
Searching for gold in the Klondike
What happens from a dam being built?
A reservoir
What is the place called where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water?
Which river could you be warned about piranhas?
The Amazon River
On the Nile River you could easily see the what?
Ancient Pyramids
What did author Mark Twain, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens write about?
The river pilots along the Mississippi River
What kind of environment does the Amazon River flow through?
A lush rainforest
Land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river is called a what?
Which two rivers have their source in the central part of Europe?
The Rhine & Danube River
What key feature do the Nile River, and the Yellow River share?
They provide irrigation to the surrounding fields.
Why does the Mississippi River makes it very hard to be a river pilot?
Because the river changes all the time
When the Murray and Darling Rivers combine, they form a what?
A drainage basin
What is a channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water?
A canal
The River Niger was needed in the growth of what?
The City of Timbuktu in Africa
What is the unusual feature of the Ganges River?
The Hindu people consider it to be holy.
At its source
When you visit the Mackenzie River, in the Northern Hemisphere, you might see which kind of wildlife?
Migrating birds
When a place is cut off from the seacoast, and surrounded by land, it's called what?
Landlocked