Rivers
What is the title of the person who guides boats safely on a river and helps navigate hazards such as sandbars and currents?
River pilot
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario are known by what name?
The Great Lakes.
What area is known as the hottest place in the United States.
Death Valley.
What is the name for a crack or split in the Earth’s crust along which movement takes place.
Fault line.
What plant is most associated with the Mojave Desert?
The Joshua tree.
Name two major rivers that flow into the Mississippi River.
The Ohio River and the Missouri River.
What is the largest lake in the United States?
Lake Superior.
Which desert is known as the "Devil's Highway"?
The Sonoran Desert.
What is the name for a stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river.
Tributary.
In which U.S. state is Death Valley located?
California.
What historic event occurred on the Mississippi River in 1927?
The Mississippi River flooded.
What two bodies of water do the Straits of Mackinac connect?
Lake Huron to Lake Michigan.
What is the hottest, driest, and lowest desert in the United States?
The Mojave Desert.
What is the name for a channel dug by people, used by boats or for irrigation?
Canal.
What are the names of vessels whose main purpose is to transport goods (such as grain, iron ore, and steel) to and from major port cities.
Cargo ships.
Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known as?
Mark Twain.
Which Great Lake is entirely located within the United States?
Lake Michigan.
What is the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere?
282 feet below sea level (in Death Valley.)
What is the part of a canal that has gates for lowering and raising the water level?
Lock.
Death Valley boasts the all-time record high temperature for Earth. What was that temperature?
134 degrees F.
The shifting of these objects, combined with changes in water flow and hidden logs or rocks can cause safe sections of rivers to become dangerous within a week.
Sandbars.
What percentage of Earth's unfrozen fresh water is contained in Lake Superior?
Ten percent.
What type of rock is commonly found in the Sonoran Desert?
Black lava rock.
In river terminology, what is the name for the ongoing movement of water, such as in a river?
Current.
How much rain does the Sonoran Desert receive in a year?
It can receive up to ten inches, while some areas receive only two inches.