River Dangers
You might hear a warning about piranhas if you were taking a boat tour of this river in South America.
What is the Amazon River
The Murray and Darling Rivers combine to form this:
What is a drainage basin?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about these people.
What are River Pilots on the Mississippi River?
This River carries the most water of any river in the world
What is the Amazon River
Special dangers in navigating the Ob River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean, are
Freezing Temperatures and Ice
When a dam is built, the following structure forms as a result:
What is a reservoir?
You could see the following from a boat in the Nile River
What are the Pyramids?
The Amazon River Flows through this environment:
What is a Rainforest?
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult because
the river changes all the time.
A key feature that the Nile River and the Yellow River share
What is irrigation?
A visitor to the Mackenzie River in the Northern Hemisphere might see this wildlife
migrating birds
This is the continent where the Nile River is located.
What is Africa?
Boats traveling on the Congo River switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid this type of danger on the river
What are Rapids?
For the Murray River, a small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko, high in the Australian mountains, is the location of the river’s
What is the Source?
This river played a big part in the search for gold in the Klondike.
What is the Yukon River?
The River Niger was key to the growth of the
city of Timbuktu in Africa.
An unusual feature of the Ganges River is that it is considered to be what by the local people:
What is holy?
The Yellow River takes its name from this:
What is Silt?
On this river, people have built a great dam, in part because of the river’s long history of flooding
What is the Yangtze River?
The Rhine River and the Danube River share this feature.
They both have their source in the central part of Europe